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President Trump has officially been acquitted in the Senate's farce impeachment trial, but

not before snake in the grass, Mitt Romney gets in one last little nip before being relegated

to ignominy and obscurity. We will compare sanctimonious backstabbers with serious and successful

conservatives. Then, the Trump administration leaks a draft of perhaps the single most

important executive order we will see in our lifetimes to make America beautiful again.

Finally, Andrew Yang reminds us why the left, no matter how eccentric, should never be trusted.

All that more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is the Michael Knowles Show.

This is the way impeachment ends not with a bang, but a whimper. It's over. The president

has been acquitted. We all knew that that was going to happen, and now it happened,

now it's over, and we can move on. But before it was over, at that very last moment, Mitt

freaking Romney had to get in one last little jab at the president. There were two charges

against the president. There was the charge of abusive power and then obstruction of

Congress. There was no charge of any crime. The House Democrats were considering a third

charge of bribery, which would be the only impeachable offense. They dropped that because

they didn't have evidence. On the charge of abusive power, the final vote was 52 to 48,

52 to acquit the president, 48 to conduct them. On the charge of obstruction of Congress,

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