Moments after the Senate acquitted President Trump of the impeachment charges against him, CNN’s The Lead looked to the future and to House Democrats who were zealously trying to drum up more impeachment charges. “Double jeopardy does not apply in politics,” chief national correspondent John King proclaimed to the rest of the panel, clearly looking for Trump to be retried on the charges he was just found “not guilty” of committing.

“And so, as the new revelations come out, whether it’s the Bolton book, whether it’s the new e-mails our Vivian Salama of CNN reporting on today that do shed new light on the controversies here,” he added.

Missing the asinine Democratic tactic of sending the charges to the Senate before finishing their investigation, King then proceeded to tout how Democrats were still trying to gather evidence for their case:

Nancy Pelosi and her House, Jerry Nadler saying today, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, they’re going to subpoena John Bolton. That’s risky, for the Democrats. That’s risky because it’s tee-ball for Trump politically to say it is gratuitous, this is all political. But, it’s also risky for all these senators who just voted on the President's side as all this new information comes out.

“So, we should pause and reflect on the history of today in the context of impeachment, this is over, but it’s not over,” he said.

Following King’s comments, host Jake Tapper agreed that their efforts to remove the President were “absolutely not” over. He then turned to liberal legal analyst Laura Coates and touted a tweet from the irrelevant Hillary Clinton:

Laura Coates, and Hillary Clinton just did a tweet: “As the President's impeachment trial began, Republican Senators pledged an oath to defend the constitution. Today, 52 of them voted to betray that oath and all of us. We’re entering dangerous territory for our Democracy,” Hillary Clinton writes, “It will take all of us working together to restore it.” So this is not the end of it.

And they say Trump was obsessed with talking about her.

A few minutes later, Tapper led the mostly liberal panel in a whine tasting session as they collectively bemoaned how Trump had shared a trolling tweet to mark his victory:

And this is what President Trump just tweeted again the moment he’s acquitted. He’s retweeting this meme – Tweeting this mem of President Trump not only winning reelection 2024, but forever, Trumpism forever. So if anybody would think that he has been chastened or humbled being only the third president in history and the only one to have votes for removal that were bipartisan, well, it’s quite the contrary.

“Is that like a monarch, a king, I’m there forever,” chief political analyst Gloria Borger huffed.

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