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Today the Trump team puts up a defense that they expect to complete today, in spite of being provided with two full days if they wanted. The reality is that the law is on their side and the facts are on their side, so unlike the Democrats (who were forced to pound the table for two days) - they have a simple lucid argument to make that won't require all that much time.
The author of a tweet introduced by Democrats at the Senate impeachment trial said Thursday her statement "we are bringing the Calvary" was a clear reference to a prayer vigil organized by churchgoers supporting Trump and not a call for military-like violence at the Capitol riot as portrayed by Rep. Eric Swalwell.
Jennifer Lynn Lawrence also said she believes the California Democrat and House impeachment manager falsified her tweet, adding a blue check mark to the version he introduced at the trial suggesting she was a verified Twitter user with more clout when in fact her Twitter account never had a blue check and has never been verified.
So you know your case is bad when you have to doctor and misrepresent tweets!
123 comments:
Republicans left because they were sick of hearing what proved them so culpable.
Dems left because it was so obvious how it wqas going.
The really good stuff about this is in my latest posts in the second thread down, "Let us be perfectly clear..."
TRUMP'S PROSECUTORS DID SUCH A CONVINCING JOB THAT---
Donald Trump’s legal defense will focus entirely on process, Axios reports.
WHY? BECAUSE---
“The attorneys representing the former president know it’s fruitless to continue defending his actions preceding the Capitol attack. Instead, they’ll say none of that matters because the trial itself is unconstitutional — an argument many Republican senators are ready to embrace.”
A VOTE TO ACQUIT IS A VOTE FOR A LIE, AS PEGGY NOONAN PUT IT (IN THE PERFECTLY CLEAR THREAD)
HERE'S ANOTHER GOOD ONE FROM THAT THREAD
(in case you're too lazy to go look)
Let's be perfectly clear---
WAS IT WORTH IT?
YES! IF THIS IS TRUE, YES! YES! YES!
Senate GOP Sees Trial Ending Trump’s Chances In 2024
7:01 am
“Senate Republicans, including those who do not plan to vote to convict former President Trump, say this week’s impeachment trial has effectively ended any chance of him becoming the GOP presidential nominee in 2024,” The Hill reports.
“From the viewpoint of some Republican senators, the compelling case presented by House prosecutors carries a silver lining: It means they likely won’t have to worry about Trump running for president again in three years, while at the same time eroding his influence in party politics more generally.”
IN OTHER WORDS, THEY AGREE WITH ME:
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAD BETTER BE SAYING,
"THANK GOD WE WON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HIM! ANYMORE!"
Why will Trump's defenders wrap up their case so quickly by focusing only on process?
Could it be because--
“The attorneys representing the former president know it’s fruitless to continue defending his actions preceding the Capitol attack."
A well made case!
‘He’s Egging Them On’
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on Twitter:
“I remember the moment I saw Trump’s tweet attacking Pence. We were in the chamber as aides were scrambling to bar the doors. Some were sobbing in fear. The mob was outside. Someone yelled out shots had been fired.
“I turned to Tim Kaine and said,
‘Oh my god, he’s egging them on.'”
Missouri Newspaper Rips Its Senators
9:16 am
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial blasted Sens. Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) over their handling of former President Trump’s impeachment trial, calling it an “embarrassment to the state.”
No one reads your spam, pedis
Everyone reads me. That constantly become obvious. ;-)
becomes
BE SURE NOT TO READ THIS, FOR EXAMPLE:
Jonathan Bernstein:
“As it turned out, for the most part the evidence the managers presented was vivid and persuasive in most places. But there was one big exception:
"Trump’s actions during the insurrection. For that, the managers had to rely on news sources that were neither convincing nor comprehensive.
"Did Trump really revel in the riot?
To what extent was he involved in efforts to secure the Capitol?
Did people have to work around him?
"I don’t know if definitive answers to those questions would change anything, but in my view we don’t have full answers to any of them. It’s a real failure of what was otherwise a very good job by the House managers.
“That said: No senator has voted yet.
Witnesses could still come forward on their own and provide news interviews, or even just on-the-record statements, of what they know.
It sure seems to me that anyone with direct evidence, whether it helps or harms Trump, should spill the beans now.”
Luke Thompson
https://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1360080731943354368
I’m enjoying the @ProjectLincoln meltdown. Truly awful people getting a comeuppance. But worth remembering they only exist because cable bookers and the NYT breathed them into existence and sustained them.
The POS "pastor" posting wildly from Goddard's ass is sure giving that pedo site a run for the money.. And they also used the Lincoln Project
guess you can call that a meltdown too.
ROFLMFAO !!!
what is a pedis?
Dinesh D'Souza
https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1360228343619194893
The premise of @ProjectLincoln was anyone associated with Trump was contaminated by him and should be treated as a criminal accomplice and an accessory. Can we now apply that same standard to the Lincoln Project and say they’ve all been running a sleazy criminal pedophile ring?
The standard does appear to apply here though they used a faulty premise.
The Reverend seems desperate this morning...
Steve Cortes
https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1360065167669739521
Trump defense team: reveal the lying impeachment managers AND concurrently educate America on his actual words about Charlottesville.
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally”
I think hardly anyone is watching except hard left dems. And I don't think any of the MSM would carry that.
Still Trump's team should and it will be spread in social media.
Biden's America
Kangaroo Court
I honestly don't think Trump has any desire or intention of running in 2024. He's already been there done that. And he did it without taking one dollar in salary. I think he's much rather be king maker for the party.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued stunning remarks breaking with former President Trump, telling Politico in an interview published Friday that she believes he “let us down.”
“We need to acknowledge he let us down,” Haley, who served in her ambassador role under Trump, said. “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.”
Haley’s remarks are her strongest yet against the former president in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and come as Trump's legal team is set to present its defense of Trump on Friday in his second Senate impeachment trial.
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The House impeached the former president for a second time shortly after the insurrection, saying his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud following his election loss to President Biden and his comments earlier that day incited the mob that stormed the Capitol.
The former South Carolina governor told Politico that she has not spoken with Trump since the mob attack, further expressing her disappointment with remarks he gave at a rally ahead of the assault condemning his own vice president, Mike Pence.
“When I tell you I’m angry, it’s an understatement,” Haley said. “I am so disappointed in the fact that [despite] the loyalty and friendship he had with Mike Pence, that he would do that to him. Like, I’m disgusted by it.”
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Haley said that the president "believes he is following" his oath of office by challenging the election results, adding, "There’s nothing that you’re ever going to do that’s going to make him feel like he legitimately lost the election."
"He’s got a big bully pulpit. He should be responsible with it," she said.
Haley in the days immediately following the attack said in a speech to Republican National Committee (RNC) members that Trump was “badly wrong with his words” at his Jan. 6 rally.
New NY Rep Tenney was finally just sworn in and wanted her active duty marine son to attend the ceremony. So naturally that screaming bitch Pelosi refused to allow it. He had to wait out in the hall. What bullshit. She needs to be retired once and for all.
The fake news coverage says the defense team still doesn't have plan. The ex President is going crazy because they won't say that the election was stolen.
The Democrats made a great argument for impeachment and banning him from running again.
Trump knew that the vice President Pence was under attack, he tweeted that he was a coward, 5 minutes after it was on the television networks.
He sat in glee watching the Insurrection and terrorists were trying to kill Pelosi and Pence.
A rational Republican would be convict Donald Trump.
But since he rolled down the escalator, a majority of Republicans have been gaslighted by Trump.
Roger...
Get off the meds buddy! Your rants are making less and less sense.
Jack Posobiec
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1360257310099206149
No one is pointing this out
Trump Offered to Deploy 10,000 National Guard Troops in DC Ahead of Jan. 6
What ??? Trump offered help against his "insurrection" and it was turned down !!!
Why aren't these democrats on trial if they actually think this is an insurrection ?
Biden's America
Banana Republic
Kangaroo Court.
FAKE NEWS
The national Democrat majority is presently out
United States Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, R-New York-22 was forced to wait months to take her rightful seat in “The People’s House.”
This was the direct result of one political ploy after another to delay the certification of Tenney’s victory over former Congressman Anthony Brandisi.
Even when Tenney officially won, the Democrats refused to stop their antics. Here’s the latest disgraceful Democrat action.
Former White House Press Secretary deserves the media credit for breaking this story.
When the 117th Congress of The United States was sworn in on January 4, 2021, each member was permitted to have a family member in the House Gallery to witness.
However, the ever petty, small-minded Speaker Nancy Pelosi denied the request for Tenney. Why?
Oh, by the way ... Tenney’s son is a graduate of The United States Naval Academy.
This paves new low ground for the despicable, partisan politicians of today.
The new Socialist Democrats keep on lying that they want to unite the American people.
Exactly how does a dirty, political circus stunt like this promote unity?
Pelosi denied a fellow duly elected member the opportunity for her United States Military son to attend his Mother’s official swearing-in ceremony.
This is one of the most small-minded, vindictive, disgraceful and divisive acts that you’ll ever see. It’s a reflection of everything that’s wrong in politics, today.
There should be no politics played on occasions such as this.
An official swearing-in ceremony should be pure, joyful and free from any politics.
But, they just can’t help themselves.
There is just no low that they won’t go.
NOTE: Nancy Pelosi Is the same disgusting elected official who ripped apart a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union Address (live) before a national audience.
it was a premeditated act, as video exists showing her pre-tearing the pages.
Pelosi should’ve been censured for this disgraceful act. She never was.
Read More: U.S. Naval Academy Graduate Denied Right To See Mom Sworn-In | https://wpgtalkradio.com/u-s-naval-academy-graduate-denied-right-to-see-mom-sworn-in/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
Every time I destroy Scott's irrational behavior here, he ignores his own guidelines and insults me.
I'm 5 years younger than the obese ex President who tried to destroy the American dream. And weigh 30 lbs less.
What doesn't make sense?
1 The fake news coverage says the defense team still doesn't have plan. The ex President is going crazy because they won't say that the election was stolen.
2:The Democrats made a great argument for impeachment and banning him from running again.
3:Trump knew that the vice President Pence was under attack, he tweeted that he was a coward, 5 minutes after it was on the television networks.
4: He sat in glee watching the Insurrection and terrorists were trying to kill Pelosi and Pence.
5:A rational Republican would be convict Donald Trump.
6:But since he rolled down the escalator, a majority of Republicans have been gaslighted by Trump.
C.H. Truth said...
Roger...
Get off the meds buddy! Your rants are making less and less sense.
Way to late for that
Only hope would be if he could re-read them and figure out why people think he keeps stepping on rakes and is posting garbage.
He obviously can't
Eddie Zipperer
https://mobile.twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1360226904972926978
Wow. Big swing and a miss from Swalwell... and did he intentionally falsify evidence?
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/impeachment-blunder-author-tweet-introduced-trial-says-it-was
Rich "The People's Pundit" Baris
@Peoples_Pundit
They were permitted to falsify evidence during the first trial, and aided by @CNN, @MSNBC and the @nytimes, all of which removed 500 words in the transcript to make it appear to be something it was not.
That’s the problem with not upholding ethical standards. It devolves.
and then people read the FAKE NEWS and believe it.
Forever.
Newsmax news robotics is where you plagiarized
Former President Donald Trump offered to deploy “as many as 10,000 National Guard troops,” ahead of Jan. 6 to support law enforcement, according to his one-time White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Meadows, during an interview on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo,” said that in January and “throughout the summer … the president was very vocal in making sure that we had plenty of National Guard, plenty of additional support because he supports our rule of law and supports our law enforcement and offered additional help.”
He added, “Even in January, that was a given, as many as 10,000 National Guard troops were told to be on the ready by the Secretary of Defense. That was a direct order from President Trump and yet here is what we see, all kinds of blame going around but yet not a whole lot of accountability. That accountability needs to rest with where it ultimately should be and that’s on Capitol Hill.”
Meadows later said, “I can tell you that when we look at Washington, D.C., the Capitol Police, many of them are my friends. I can tell you they do a tremendous job, but they need to be empowered to do that job, and there were plenty of assets there to assist them in their efforts. And some of those decisions weren't made appropriately, in my opinion, and those decisions did not come from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it came from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.”
If this was credible evidence the MSM would have carried it.
But Mark Meadows is not a credible source.
Newsmax is the 21st Century Pravda
Hi Roger.
Please provide the name and contact information of your Attorney so mine can make contact .
Let's get this party started.
Cowardly Effeminate Roger, are you going to put up or shut the Fuck Up.
C.H. TruthFebruary 12, 2021 at 9:16 AM
The Reverend seems desperate this morning."
Yes.
https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/1009314/1
“Come on people smile on your brother and convict the __________right now!!!” Fill in the blank ...
Mother*****r
Roger Amick said...
Newsmax news robotics is where you plagiarized
Jack Posobiec
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1360257310099206149
No one is pointing this out
Trump Offered to Deploy 10,000 National Guard Troops in DC Ahead of Jan. 6
So no alky, guess you stepped on ANOTHER rake. Are you so fucking gone you no longer have any idea of what the commonly known truth is and what plagiarism is ? Are you just in a FAKE NEWS bubble ? I don't plagiarize and I provide links to my source. But here's something for you to help out
Barstool Sports
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1360064852098711552
Watching Tom Brady (And Gronk) Win It All On Sunday Wasn't Like Watching Your Ex Have Sex With Somebody Else. It Was Worse. https://barstoolsports.com/blog/3332305/watching-tom-brady-and-gronk-win-it-all-on-sunday-wasnt-like-watching-your-ex-have-sex-with-somebody-else.-it-was-worse.
You are not alone.
Other than being in your room.
Meanwhile Brady was out partying and celebrating !!!
On his $2 million dollar "boat" in the victory parade.
Drinking avocado tequila from California.
And no, if you find someone else has printed that, that is not plagiarizing idiot. It's common knowledge with thousands of sources.
This why the Republicans should convict and ban him from running again.
“I’m not afraid Donald Trump is going to run again,” said Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), an impeachment manager. “I’m afraid he’s going to run again and lose. Because he can do this again.”
I see Roger has chosen to "Shut Up".
10:49 I heard some Republicans' commenting that of all the things that were said, this impressed and disturbed them the most.
I just had my 1st shot here in central Illinois. Well organized and effectively administered. No pain. Glad to get it.
It's a Moderna shot.
I shopped again without a mask.
The looks on the faces of the afraid idiots is too funny.
In many place here you would rightly have been arrested. If you don't care about yourself, you should at least have the decency to care about others.
places
"In many place here you would rightly have been arrested" Cowardly Jane
Really, exactly who would "Arrest" me?
And under exactly what Law?
Please don't run off.
The defense is saying that Democrats hate Trump hate Trump hate Trump hate Trump hate Trump hate Trump hate Trump
Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia
Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship
Well lookie, it is the coward Alky.
They are trying draw parallel comparisons between non violent protests and the invasion of the Capitol building.
Democrats said they have to fight against Trump. That's politics.
Fight like hell fight at the ballot box.
Fight for impeach President Trump.
Not one of them directed people to invade the Capitol building and overturn the election results.
Fight is the talking point. Not one of them incited an Insurrection.
It's lame
They are trying draw parallel comparisons between non violent protests and the invasion of the Capitol building.
Over the summer, estimates are that there were about 570 unique BLM protests that turned violent. 1500 businesses have been damaged just in my state alone and nationally over a billion dollars worth of rioting damage has been sustained due to BLM riots.
As many as 700 police officers have been injured and at least 10 have been killed from the rioting. Overall, hundreds more have been injured and dozens have died.
So exactly what the fuck are you talking about Roger?
The only motives for the impeachment are
1:TDS
2:Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia
3: Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship.
good for you Roger...
You finally got it figured out!
"As many as 700 police officers have been injured and at least 10 have been killed from the rioting. Overall, hundreds more have been injured and dozens have died.
So exactly what the fuck are you talking about Roger?"
CHT, Roger will respond as soon as he reads his opinion somewhere and cut n paste it here.
Property damage crimes are illegal.
Incitement of violence or Insurrection is not protected by the first amendment. I cited the law last night.
Mr Trump encouraged violence with his own words.
That's what are saying right now. It's a talking point for the Republican Senators. Right here.
Trump's lawyers said the only motives for the impeachment are.
1:TDS
2:Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia
3: Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship Social media censorship.
The demonstrations in response to the murder of George Floyd, were not an insurrection.
Drawing parallels are not valid.
I'm not watching anything else.
I have not copied and pasted anything yet
They are trying draw parallel comparisons between non violent protests and the invasion of the Capitol building.
Democrats said they have to fight against Trump. That's politics.
Fight like hell fight at the ballot box.
Fight for impeach President Trump.
Not one of them directed people to invade the Capitol building and overturn the election results.
Trump's lawyer said that they had not been provided the videos they used yesterday.
The house impeachment committee turned them to them last night.
He lied in the opening statement.
The looting and destruction of the Capitol building is not protected by the first amendment rights asshole .
I guess the argument is, what, that we need to protect the right of future presidents to incite insurrections!
If Trump loses again in November 2024, he will incite insurrections.
You’re a blithering idiot, alky
Senior aides on the impeachment manager team told reporters Friday that they expected to see a "distraction campaign" from Trump's lawyers.
Trump is the first president to have been impeached twice by the House, and he is the first former president to be put on trial in the Senate. He was impeached Jan. 13 on an article charging him with "incitement of insurrection" for his role in the riot.
His lawyer is arguing that the only motive for the impeachment is TDS. And like Scott said on January 6th that the incident was not an insurrection.
And again running video sessions of the ex President is a law and order President
Trump’s lawyers have conclusively proved that the word “fight” is a word in the English language.
LMAO his lawyers suck.
5 to 10 Republican Senators May Vote to Convict
3:37 pm
“Six GOP senators voted this week to move forward with President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. But Republicans believe several more of them may be considering conviction,” Politico reports.
“As the Trump defense made its argument on Friday, Republicans privately estimated between 5 and 10 of their senators are seriously weighing conviction. There’s no official whip count, and the matter is not being discussed at party meetings, leaving many in the 50-member conference to only guess at their colleague’s inclinations.”
Hey alky
Have you figured out yet that when I provide a link to my source that is NOT plagiarism though you say it is but when the POS "pastor" doesn't provide a link (or even note his source) that is plagiarism ? I know he can't figure it out but can you yet?
Too complicated ?
Or too many rakes ?
ROFLMFAO !!!
Politico reported my last post.
Neither I nor Goddard lie about that,
nor do we plagiarize by claiming WE said it.
Commander Thief sure is slow figuring out what plagiarism is. He should try a dictionary.
Hey asshole.
I already provided a dictionary definition for you.
What you are doing is the definition of plagiarism.
What a fucking idiot you are.
Here's the link to your work.
Note that even Goddard takes credit for it:
5 to 10 Republican Senators May Vote to Convict
February 12, 2021 at 3:37 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
https://politicalwire.com/2021/02/12/senate-gop-gripped-by-conviction-vote-intrigue/
What a POS plagiarizing waterboying "pastor" you are
ROFLMFAO at your stupidity !!!
* spitting at your "character"
*spit*
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html#polls
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/trump_favorableunfavorable-5493.html
JUST LOOK AT THAT!
AND NOW LOOK AT THIS:
Trump Seen as Worst President In U.S. History
4:04 pm
A new Economist/YouGov poll finds that
46% of Americans think Donald Trump was the worst president in the history of the country.
WOW!
Barack Obama got the second highest at
24%.
However,
Obama also led the poll as the best president in history, edging out Abraham Lincoln.
WOW WOW WOW WOW!
Note the link I provided is the exact thing you posted
word for word
except the By Taegan Goddard
Plagiarism
What a FUCKING POS of a "pastor"
rot in hell asshole
ROFLMFAO !!!
Roger, good choice on your Part to Shut the Fuck Up.
The public's view of Democrats sure is improving!
Thank you, Donald!
Taeggan Goddard puts his name on everything he posts, even when his post consists of nothing except clearly designated quotes from others.
When Goddard cites the NYT, or WapO, OR Politico, or the Wall Street Journal, or the various newspapers and commentators he names-- if he were claiming that they were speaking for him, only then would he would be plagiarizing.
The few times when Goddard gives his own opinion, I credit him.
Otherwise, it would simply get boring.
It's not rocket science, except for you, lol.
The things that the child James writes are always funny.
Oh believe me all your spam is incredibly boring
You’re incapable of an original thought
Incompetent.
Bruce Castor Confuses Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger With Georgia Secretary Of State Brad Raffensperger During Trump Impeachment Trial.
Trump Lawyer Says House Managers Manipulated Video
12:58 pm
“David Schoen, one of former Trump’s defense attorneys, on Friday accused House impeachment managers of having manipulated evidence in their presentation by selectively editing video footage and altering tweets,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Schoen: “We have reason to believe the House managers manipulated evidence and selectively edited footage. If they did and this were a court of law, they would face sanctions from the judge.”
He added: “We have reason to believe that the House managers created false representations of tweets, and the lack of due process means there was no opportunity to review or verify the accuracy.”
_________
I have reason to note that the Trump lawyers did not offer a single example of a video editing or a tweet falsification.
KansasDemocrat said...
The things that the child James writes are always funny.
He posts whatever Goddard writes.
His head is so far up Taegan's ass he must have trouble breathing.
And copying peoples work without reference is plagiarism, even when Taegan is referencing them in his post.
He's just pigheaded or stupid or both.
My money is on post.
Whatever he definitely is a POS who shouldn't be doing any preaching.
I too thought 3:20 was funny.
* post s/b both
I laughed at them.
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Former President Trump's lawyers began to argue their defense FridayThey are expected to speak for just a few hoursThey played clip after clip of Democrats calling to 'fight' and 'fight back'Accused Democrats of acting out of 'hatred' Said managers 'manipulated evidence'Called impeachment a 'witch hunt' and a 'sham,' language Trump uses When they conclude senators will get to ask questions President Joe Biden said he's watching to see if his Republican 'friends' in the Senate 'stand up' to Donald Trump with their impeachment vote'I'm just anxious to see what my Republican friends do. If they stand up,' he saidJoe and Jill Biden made surprise appearance on North Lawn to see a Valentine's Day message the first lady had installed overnightGiant heart-shaped signs in red, white and pink with messages of 'unity,' 'hope,' 'healing' were placed on the lawnBidens carried cups of coffee and had dogs Champ and Major with them'I just wanted some joy. With the pandemic, just everybody's feeling a little down. So, it's just a little joy. A little hope. That's all,' Jill Biden said of her message
Donald Trump's impeachment lawyers concluded their defense of the former president Friday after less than three hours – after attacking the process as a 'witch hunt' and calling Democratic managers who argued it hypocrites.
JamesNewLeaf said...
I too thought 3:20 was funny.
Your constant mindless posting straight from Goddard's ass is funny.
We laugh at you, not with you.
ROFLMFAO !!!
An I am your daddy !!!
LMAO troll squad asshole like rrb and kputz.
It’s worth noting that if even two Republican senators vote to convict Trump, it will be the most bi-partisan impeachment vote to convict a president in U.S. history.
alky said:
It’s worth noting that if even two Republican senators vote to convict Trump, it will be the most bi-partisan impeachment vote to convict an ex-president in U.S. history.
Fixed it for you
ROFLMFAO !!!
For the most part, ignore the personal attackers.
They can't defend Republican fascism, so they just make personal attacks.
Pointing out plagiarism is not a personal attack
And defending freedom of speech and the constitution is not Fascism.
That's what democrats do.
But go fuck yourself asshole, when your done servicing Goddard.
ROFLMFAO !!!
* you're
Trump should be put in a padded cell.
No cell phone, no windows
Zero contact with other humans
Trump is a monster.
But let JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy be his Monica Lewinsky!
Los Angeles Times
Opinion: Do Senate Republicans understand patriotism?
by Scott Martelle
Fri, February 12, 2021, 12:16 PM
The nation just spent three sobering days watching Democratic members of the House lay out a deeply compelling case that the president of the United States urged his supporters to come to Washington, fired them up at a “Save America” rally outside the White House in which he lied, yet again, about a stolen election, and then sent them off down the National Mall to do something about it.
“Patriots,” President Trump called them.
Maybe he misspoke. Maybe he meant to say “rioters” but jumbled the pronunciation.
Or maybe he has no clue what patriotism really is. To most people, patriotism doesn’t involve violently attacking police, invading the U.S. Capitol on search of elected officials as a makeshift gallows sits outside, and trying to stop the peaceful transfer of political power.
On Friday, lawyers for the former president are trying to defend his atrocious behavior, in which they are attacking Democrats for using the word “fight" in their own speeches, and votes in previous electoral certifications challenging the results — basic "whataboutism."
Never mind that they are not comparable examples. Politicians — left and right — urging supporters to fight for a cause is not the same as Trump exhorting political violence among his supporters, promising to pay the legal bills if they get arrested, and on Jan. 6 telling the rally, “you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”
The Senate will face its moment of truth probably over the weekend when it votes on whether Trump should be convicted (even though he has left the office), and then whether he should be barred from ever holding office again. [Already in a majority of the public's mind, he should not!]
The nation already knows that most of the Republican senators will fail this test of courage, many citing squirrelly reasons. It’s too divisive, some say. The House Democrats did not prove that Trump had violated criminal laws about inciting a riot, according to others. The best yet — convicting Trump and barring him from running again would be too divisive.
Too divisive? Where have they been for the past five years? And we shouldn’t hold a president accountable for lighting the fire of insurrection because it might upset some people?
If that’s their fig leaf, someone needs to whisper in their ear that it’s see-through.
The excuse for supporting Trump that seems to be gaining the most traction among Republican senators is that the body cannot convict Trump because he is no longer president, a debatable point (though most constitutional scholars say it can) that also is a deflection. The Senate voted earlier this week that it does indeed have the power to convict Trump, and the looming question before the senators now is whether his actions merit conviction.
Senators who cling to the argument that they will vote against the impeachment because the Senate can’t vote to remove him are simply looking for a justification for evading their responsibility to decide the core question:
Did the president’s actions merit removal from office? Whether the Senate has the power to vote to remove him is no longer the Senate’s issue; it is Trump’s argument to make to the courts.
This is the moment of truth not just for Senate Republicans, but for Republicans nationwide.
Is it a tenet of Republican conservative thought to embrace falsehoods in an effort to undo the vote of the people?
Does political conservatism include supporting attacks on the very structures of democracy?
Or attacks on police?
Or rampaging through the halls of Congress?
Is holding Trump accountable for his actions by forcing him to take personal responsibility,
contrary to conservative beliefs?
We’ll see how the conservatives in the Senate answer those questions over the next few days. And the nation would do well to remember which ones voted as patriots, and which ones voted as sycophants.
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times. [I got it at realclearpolitics.com.]
Jack Posobiec
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1360309680204046340
BREAKING: Trump defense team destroys the Charlottesville fine people hoax
Nah, people like the "pastor" and the alky just keep lying
It's all they know (well and plagiarizing)
When he was impeached, by the House of representatives, he was The President of the United states.
Fixed it for you
ROFLMFAO !!!
NautPoso 119 Rocket (@ Posonaut on Gab)
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/NautPoso/status/1360314880788746251
The Biden Free Throw
Dems be, I can't see anything wrong with that
ROFLMFAO !!!
Jason Miller
https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1360287046657540097
Overheard just now at the White House:
"We told you jackasses this Impeachment would blow up in our faces!!!"
White House suspends deputy press secretary for one week for threatening reporter over story about him
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/media/tj-ducklo-white-house-suspended/index.html
Arthur Schwartz
https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1360289850289758208
So when Biden said he would fire anyone that behaved like this “on the spot,” he actually meant he would put them in the penalty box for a week.
and remove the press access to that post...
Biden doesn't appear to have any idea what fire means unless it is a Republican.
Biden's America
1984
Banana Republic
1984
The Jack Meadows lie on Fox news was a lie according to Crooks and Liars about 10,000 National Guard troops.
And some of those decisions weren't made appropriately, in my opinion, and those decisions did not come from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it came from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Sadly for Trump, Meadows and the rest of Trump's enablers, the timeline from January 6th tells a different story. As we discussed here, Gov. Larry Hogan was denied permission to send the National Guard for 90 minutes, and Moyers on Democracy has a detailed timeline on the insurrection and the events surrounding the siege on the Capitol on January 6th.
The Attack
If the District of Columbia were a state, its governor alone could have deployed the National Guard to crush the riot. Instead, Trump and his Defense Department had that responsibility, and an unprecedented assault on a sacred institution of government succeeded, if only for a few hours.
[...]
(DoD Memo) 1:34 p.m.: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser asks Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy – who reports to Miller – for more federal help to deal with the mob.
Bowser is told that the request must first come from the Capitol Police.
(DoD Memo) 1:49 p.m.: The Capitol Police chief asks the commanding general of the DC National Guard for immediate assistance.
[...]
(DoD Memo) 2:22 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy discusses the situation at the Capitol with Mayor Bowser and her staff.
They are begging for additional National Guard assistance. Note the time. It’s been almost an hour since Bowser requested help.
[...]
(D0D Memo) 2:30 p.m.: Miller, Army Secretary McCarthy, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff meet to discuss Mayor Bowser’s request.
[...]
(DoD Memo) 3:04 p.m.: Miller gives “verbal approval” to full mobilization of the DC National Guard (1,100 members.)
It has now been more than 90 minutes since Mayor Bowser first asked Army Secretary McCarthy for assistance. It took an hour for Defense Department officials to meet, and another half-hour for them to decide to help. And Bowser still doesn’t know the status of her request.
(Memo) 3:19 p.m.: Pelosi and Schumer call Army Secretary McCarthy, who says that Bowser’s request has now been approved.
(Memo) 3:26 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy calls Bowser to tell her that her request for help has been approved.
The Defense Department’s notification of approval to Bowser came two hours after her request.
[...]
(DoD Memo) 3:47 p.m. Governor Hogan mobilizes his state’s National Guard and 200 state troopers.
The Defense Department “repeatedly denies” Hogan’s request to deploy the National Guard at the Capitol. As he awaits approval, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) calls Hogan from the undisclosed bunker to which he, Speaker Pelosi, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have been evacuated. Hoyer pleads for assistance, saying that the Capitol Police is overwhelmed and there is no federal law enforcement presence.
[...]
(DoD Memo) 4:32 p.m.: Miller gives verbal authorization to “re-mission” DC National Guard from city posts where most have been directing traffic and monitoring subway stations “to conduct perimeter and clearance operations” in support of the Capitol Police force.
4:40 p.m.: More than 90 minutes after Governor Hogan had requested federal approval to send his state’s National Guard troops to DC, Army Secretary McCarthy calls and asks, “Can you come as soon as possible?” Hogan responds, “Yeah. We’ve been waiting. We’re ready.”
5:40 p.m.: The first DC National Guard personnel arrive at the Capitol. After the Vice President Pence ordered them to be deployed.
Meadows wasn't asked about any of that, of course, because Bartiromo is not a reporter. She's a shameless right-wing propagandist like the faker and rrb and kputz and ballsless and????
Trump War Room
VIDEO: https://mobile.twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1360349718841339908
"Where I come from, when you get caught doctoring the evidence, your case is over. And that’s what happened. They got caught doctoring the evidence, and this case should be over." - Michael van der Veen.
Dems need to rely on doctoring the "evidence", regular folks would be thrown in prison for what they do.
Biden's America
Banana Republic
Animal Farm
It is really sad that trumps own words are his worst nightmare!!!!!!!!! Regular folks are given the middle finger by trump and the GOP who could not care less what happens to them!!!!!! Banana republic indeed with General trumps fat ass in the lead!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Olson Won’t Support Those Who Don’t Vote to Convict
5:04 pm
Ted Olson, who served as assistant attorney general for Ronald Reagan and solicitor general for George W. Bush — told the National Law Journal that he is now backing impeachment of President Trump.
Said Olson: “This is not just Jan 6. Trump has been attempting for weeks to convince the American public—and duly elected and appointed election officials—that the election was a fraud and was stolen from him, in the face of irrefutable evidence and numerous judicial opinions to the contrary. This was a constant and fraudulent effort to undermine the integrity of American institutions and processes. It culminated, of course, in the violence and lawlessness on Jan. 6.”
He added: “I haven’t resolved yet what I plan to do, but certainly do not plan to contribute financially to or support candidates or committees who do not pass the test of character presented by the Senate’s vote on the impeachment trial.”
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He wants "character" from Republicans?
Far too late for that, by now.
Olson Won’t Support Those Who Don’t Vote to Convict
February 12, 2021 at 5:04 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
https://politicalwire.com/2021/02/12/ted-olson-wont-support-republicans-who-wont-vote-to-convict/
Yep just checked.
More plagiarism from the "pastor" straight from Goddard's ass
word-for-word
"character" from the "pastor" ?
ROFLMFAO !!!
Hey asshole, why don't you just post the link like I did ?
It's exactly what you posted, except the "By Taegan Goddard"
Instead it says "jamesnewleaf said:"
except you didn't
Taegan Goddard said it
I agree with how The New York times diagnosed the ex President's lawyers.
Republican senators praised Mr. Trump’s three-hour defense, during which his lawyers accused House impeachment managers of taking the former president’s words and actions out of context, complained about what they saw as the news media’s unfair coverage of their client and presented many of Mr. Trump’s own talking points and narratives.
It was almost as though Mr. Trump was delivering his defense himself. And lawmakers praised it as a huge improvement over the rambling and disorganized argument delivered on Tuesday by one of his lawyers, Bruce L. Castor Jr., a performance that was widely panned and infuriated Mr. Trump.
The defense lawyers said the House managers manipulated their client’s words and pointed to Mr. Trump’s call to his supporters in his Jan. 6 speech to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Taeggen Goddard did not say this. CNN did.
New details about Trump-McCarthy shouting match show Trump refused to call off the rioters
By Jamie Gangel, Kevin Liptak, Michael Warren and Marshall Cohen, CNN
Updated 8:40 PM ET, Fri February 12, 2021
New details emerge in McCarthy's call with Trump on January 6
Washington (CNN)In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did.
"Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are," Trump said, according to lawmakers who were briefed on the call afterward by McCarthy.
McCarthy insisted that the rioters were Trump's supporters and begged Trump to call them off.
Trump's comment set off what Republican lawmakers familiar with the call described as a shouting match between the two men. A furious McCarthy told the President the rioters were breaking into his office through the windows, and asked Trump, "Who the f--k do you think you are talking to?" according to a Republican lawmaker familiar with the call.
The newly revealed details of the call, described to CNN by multiple Republicans briefed on it, provide critical insight into the President's state of mind as rioters were overrunning the Capitol. The existence of the call and some of its details have been previously reported and discussed publicly by McCarthy.
The Republican members of Congress said the exchange showed Trump had no intention of calling off the rioters even as lawmakers were pleading with him to intervene. Several said it amounted to a dereliction of his presidential duty.
"He is not a blameless observer, he was rooting for them," a Republican member of Congress said. "On January 13, Kevin McCarthy said on the floor of the House that the President bears responsibility and he does."
Speaking to the President from inside the besieged Capitol, McCarthy pressed Trump to call off his supporters and engaged in a heated disagreement about who comprised the crowd.
Trump's comment about the would-be insurrectionists caring more about the election results than McCarthy did was first mentioned by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican from Washington state, in a town hall earlier this week, and was confirmed to CNN by Herrera Beutler and other Republicans briefed on the conversation.
"You have to look at what he did during the insurrection to confirm where his mind was at," Herrera Beutler, one of 10 House Republicans who voted last month to impeach Trump, told CNN. "That line right there demonstrates to me that either he didn't care, which is impeachable, because you cannot allow an attack on your soil, or he wanted it to happen and was OK with it, which makes me so angry.
We should never stand for that, for any reason, under any party flag," she added, voicing her extreme frustration: "I'm trying really hard not to say the F-word."
"I think it speaks to the former President's mindset," said Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, an Ohio Republican who also voted to impeach Trump last month. "He was not sorry to see his unyieldingly loyal vice president or the Congress under attack by the mob he inspired. In fact, it seems he was happy about it or at the least enjoyed the scenes that were horrifying to most Americans across the country."
As senators prepare to determine Trump's fate, multiple Republicans thought the details of the call were important to the proceedings because they believe it paints a damning portrait of Trump's lack of action during the attack. At least one of the sources who spoke to CNN took detailed notes of McCarthy's recounting of the call.
Trump and McCarthy did not respond to requests for comment.
It took Trump several hours after the attack began to eventually encourage his supporters to "go home in peace" -- a tweet that came at the urging of his top aides.
At Trump's impeachment trial Friday, his lawyers argued that Trump did in fact try to calm the rioters with a series of tweets while the attack unfolded. But his lawyers cherry-picked his tweets, focusing on his request for supporters to "remain peaceful" without mentioning that he also attacked then-Vice President Mike Pence and waited hours to explicitly urge rioters to leave the Capitol.
A source close to Pence said Trump's legal team was not telling the truth when attorney Michael van der Veen said at the trial that "at no point" did the then-President know his vice president was in danger.
Asked whether van der Veen was lying, the source said, "Yes."
Former Pence aides are still fuming over Trump's actions on January 6, insisting he never checked on the vice president as Pence was being rushed from danger by his US Secret Service detail.
It's unclear to what extent these new details were known by the House Democratic impeachment managers or whether the team considered calling McCarthy as a witness. The managers have preserved the option to call witnesses in the ongoing impeachment trial, although that option remains unlikely as the trial winds down.
The House Republican leader had been forthcoming with his conference about details of his conversations with Trump on and after January 6.
Trump himself has not taken any responsibility in public.
This story has been updated with additional reporting.
CNN'S Jim Acosta contributed to this report.
Boy, is THAT damning!!!
And this COULD BE!
Lindsey Graham Call Part of Georgia Election Probe
9:12 pm
“An Atlanta-area prosecutor plans to scrutinize a post-Election Day phone call between Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC.l) and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as part of a criminal investigation into whether former president Donald Trump or his allies broke Georgia laws while trying to reverse his defeat in the state,” the Washington Post reports.
8:O6 & 8:07
Seems to me the prosecution managers should call McCarthy as a witness and make him own up to what he and Trump said on the phone that day when rioters were breaking through McCarthy's windows and Trump was still refusing to call off the rioters because, as he told McCarthy, "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are."
That's what Trump said, according to lawmakers who were briefed on the call afterward by McCarthy, one of whom took extensive notes on the briefing.
McCarthy insisted that the rioters were Trump's supporters and begged Trump to call them off.
Trump didn't until later.
"I think it speaks to the former President's mindset," said Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio). "He was not sorry to see his unyieldingly loyal vice president or the Congress under attack by the mob he inspired. In fact, it seems he was happy about it or at the least enjoyed the scenes that were horrifying to most Americans across the country."
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Rev. James Boswell says:
"If this is not evidence of a dereliction of duty for which Trump should be convicted,
nothing is. If he cannot be convicted for this, we may as well take impeachment clause out of the Constitution."
Trump wanted the vice President Pence to be lynched.
Trump's impeachment trial Friday, his lawyers argued that Trump did in fact try to calm the rioters with a series of tweets while the attack unfolded. But his lawyers cherry-picked his tweets, focusing on his request for supporters to "remain peaceful" without mentioning that he also attacked then-Vice President Mike Pence and waited hours to explicitly urge rioters to leave the Capitol.
A source close to Pence said Trump's legal team was not telling the truth when attorney Michael van der Veen said at the trial that "at no point" did the then-President know his vice president was in danger.
Asked whether van der Veen was lying, the source said, "Yes." Former Pence aides are still fuming over Trump's actions on January 6, insisting he never checked on the vice president as Pence was being rushed from danger by his US Secret Service detail.
It's unclear to what extent these new details were known by the House Democratic impeachment managers or whether the team considered calling McCarthy as a witness. The managers have preserved the option to call witnesses in the ongoing impeachment trial, although that option remains unlikely as the trial winds down.
The House Republican leader had been forthcoming with his conference about details of his conversations with Trump on and after January 6.
Trump himself has not taken any responsibility in public.
He was fucking crazy!
Graham to Meet with Trump On Future of GOP
9:49 pm
“Sen. Lindsey Graham said he’ll be meeting with former President Donald Trump in the coming weeks to talk about the future of the Republican Party,” Politico reports.
Said Graham:
“I’m going to try and convince him that we can’t get there without you, but you can’t keep the Trump movement going without the GOP united. I
"If we come back in 2022, then, it’s an affirmation of your policies. But if we lose again in 2022, the narrative is going to continue that not only you lost the White House, but the Republican Party is in a bad spot.”
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The Republican Party IS in a bad spot.
And will continue that way as long as it continues to screw around with Trump.
Dump Trump.
Dump Graham too while you're at it.
Strive again for common decency.
An Atlanta-area prosecutor plans to scrutinize a post-Election Day phone call between Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as part of a criminal investigation into whether former president Donald Trump or his allies broke Georgia laws while trying to reverse his defeat in the state, according to a person familiar with the probe.
The individual, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing probe, said the inquiry by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will include an examination of the call Graham, a staunch Trump ally, made to Raffensperger 10 days after the Nov. 3 election.
During their conversation, Graham asked the Georgia secretary of state whether he had the power to toss out all mail ballots in certain counties, Raffensperger told The Washington Post in an interview days later. He said Graham appeared to be asking him to improperly find a way to set aside legally cast ballots.
Graham denied that, saying he was seeking information to better understand how the state verified mail ballots. At the time, Trump was trailing Joe Biden by about 14,000 votes in Georgia, which was recounting by hand all 5 million ballots cast in the election.
The call will “be looked at,” said the individual familiar with the investigation — though the person cautioned that little is known about the call for now, or whether Graham violated any laws.
On Friday, Graham spokesman Kevin Bishop said the notion that Graham’s call was improper was “ridiculous.”
He could be in trouble.
Even worse .
This is huge but the words matter
The phone call is a big deal.
Right in the middle of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, then-President Donald Trump defended the attackers to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), CNN reported Friday.
“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump reportedly told McCarthy.
“Who the fuck do you think you’re talking to?” McCarthy responded, according to CNN.
The stunning exchange came during a phone call between Trump and McCarthy. CNN attributed the description of the call to lawmakers to whom McCarthy described the exchange afterward.
CNN reported that its sources described the call as a shouting match.
Trump’s comment reportedly came after a heated exchange between the two men during which McCarthy attempted to get Trump to call off his supporters who were laying siege to the Capitol.
In response to McCarthy’s call for help, Trump reportedly said that the people attacking the Capitol were “antifa” — short for anti-fascists — rather than Trump supporters. That lie has circulated far and wide among Trump’s allies since the attack, but it’s baseless.
McCarthy reportedly pushed back, telling Trump that the attackers were his supporters.
It was at that point that Trump said that he guessed the attackers were simply more upset about the election than the House minority leader.
One of the report’s authors, CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel, discussed the report on air Friday.
Gangel mentioned that one member of Congress who McCarthy had briefed directly on the call on Jan. 10, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), confirmed the exchange with CNN.
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, one of 10 House Republicans to support Donald Trump's impeachment for inciting the Capitol insurrection, pleaded with those close to the former president — and former vice president Mike Pence — to come forward and reveal what they know about Trump's conduct.
"To the patriots who were standing next to the former president as these conversations were happening, or even to the former Vice President: if you have something to add here, now would be the time," Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) wrote in a statement released late Friday, on the eve of what is expected to be the Senate's final vote in Trump's impeachment trial.
Herrera Beutler issued the statement amid a new wave of attention on a story she has been telling since last month: that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy relayed details of a phone call he had with Trump while the violent mob was ransacking the Capitol.
In Herrera Beutler's telling, McCarthy urged Trump to call off the mob, to which Trump initially responded that he couldn't because it was made up of left-wing extremists — a falsehood that has been debunked by federal investigators.
When McCarthy refuted Trump, the former president responded, "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are," according to Herrera-Beutler.
The comment is further evidence that supports the case the House has been mounting during the Senate trial — that Trump ignored his allies' pleas to call off the rioters and demand that they go home. Rather, he seemed more interested, they argue, in continuing to find ways to delay the certification of Joe Biden's victory as president that day.
Herrera Beutler's anecdote dovetails with the revelation from Sen. Tommy Tuberville that he directly informed Trump at around 2:15 p.m. on Jan. 6 that Pence had been evacuated from the Senate chamber just minutes earlier. At 2:24 p.m., Trump tweeted an attack on Pence, saying he lacked "courage" for refusing to unilaterally block Biden's victory.
The Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump should be an opportunity for Missouri Sens. Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley to redeem themselves for blindly supporting a man whose conduct was indefensible. Instead, they continue bringing additional embarrassment to the state after having flirted with the abolition of democracy in favor of keeping a dictator wannabe in the White House.
Hawley, of course, is the Senate’s biggest cheerleader when it comes to asserting that Trump won the Nov. 3 election and that Trump shouldn’t be held accountable for directing a mob to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6. Blunt had the gall to tell reporters that, until a 13-minute video of the Capitol attack was shown to senators on Tuesday, he had never taken so much time to watch what occurred on that “truly a horrendous day.” Both voted against allowing the trial to proceed.
Missourians must not allow themselves to be fooled by the weak boilerplate defenses by Hawley and Blunt. Hawley tweeted on Tuesday: “Today Democrats launched their unconstitutional impeachment trial while President Biden cancels thousands of working class jobs across this country. Americans deserve better.” In fact, a bipartisan majority of senators have deemed the proceeding to be constitutional. And the attempt to divert attention to Biden, who has not canceled a single job, is pathetic but oh-so-typical of Hawley.
Trump’s Taste for Blood
If Republicans won’t convict, bring on the handcuffs.
By Maureen Dowd
Why is it that EVERYONE ASSOCIATED WITH TRUMP IS A SPINELESS FUCKING LIAR!!!!!!!!!!! Sick thet 74 million voters have fallen for his bullshit, but the liar will again get away with his constant stream of bs!!!!!!!
By Linda Qiu
Feb. 12, 2021
As they mounted their defense of the former president on Friday, Donald J. Trump’s lawyers made a number of inaccurate or misleading claims about the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, Mr. Trump’s remarks, the impeachment process and 2020 election. Many claims were echoes of right-wing talking points popularized on social media or ones that were spread by Mr. Trump himself.
Here’s a fact check.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers were misleading about what happened on Jan. 6.
WHAT WAS SAID
“Instead of expressing a desire that the joint session be prevented from conducting its business, the entire premise of his remarks was that the democratic process would and should play out according to the letter of the law.” — Michael van der Veen, lawyer for Mr. Trump
False. In his speech on Jan. 6 and before, Mr. Trump repeatedly urged former Vice President Mike Pence to reject the certification of the Electoral College votes, saying Mr. Pence should “send it back to the States to recertify.” Mr. Trump continued his speech on Jan. 6 saying he was “challenging the certification of the election.”
Taeggan Goddard says the NYT says---
Trump’s Lead Lawyer Almost Quit Last Night
7:42 am
WHY?
Trump impeachment lawyer David Schoen briefly told the rest of the former president’s legal team he was quitting last night, the New York Times reports.
Donald Trump had to called Schoen to get him to rejoin the team.
THE REASON, I THINK, IS OBVIOUS. THOSE NEW REVELATIONS ABOUT THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN McCARTHY AND TRUMP IN WHICH TRUMP SHOWED HIMSELF FOR THE GHOUL HE IS. IT WAS ALL ABOUT HIM FALSELY WINNING THE ELECTION, NOT ABOUT THE LIVES IN DANGER AT THE CAPITOL. "THEY'RE COMING IN MY WINDOW, McCARTHY TOLD TRUMP. DO YOU KNOW WHO THE F YOU'RE TALKING TO?
TRUMP STILL REFUSED TO CALL HIS RIOTERS OFF. "KEN, YOU MUST NOT CARE AS MUCH ABOUT THE ELECTION AS THESE PEOPLE DO." TRUMP WAS APPROVING OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
T. Goddard says the NYT says---
GOP Lawmaker Pleads with Witnesses to Step Forward
7:27 am
Rep. Jaime Herrera (R-WA) confirmed on Friday night that the top House Republican, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), told her that former president Donald Trump had sided with the mob during a phone call as the Jan. 6 Capitol attack unfolded, the New York Times reports.
She pleaded with witnesses to step forward and share what they knew about Trump’s actions: “To he patriots who were standing next to the former president as these conversations were happening, or even to the former vice president: if you have something to add here, now would be the time.”
T. Goddard says the Washington Examiner says--
Are Democrats Now Open to Impeachment Witnesses?
7:21 am
“Senate Democrats may be opening up to the idea of extending former President Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial and calling witnesses as new details emerge of events surrounding the siege of Congress,” the Washington Examiner reports.
“A report from CNN published Friday evening, offering fresh details about a contentious call between Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on the day of the riot, led at least one Senate Democrat to say he and his colleagues would support extending the proceedings if House impeachment managers indicated a desire for it.”
Said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD): “If they make a decision to call witnesses, obviously, we would welcome that.”
OBVIOUSLY.
The Pinocchio Test
A Senate trial for impeached public officials should be fair. But by claiming “due process” violations, Trump’s attorneys are invoking a specific set of rights and protections under the Fifth and 14th amendments that do not apply to impeachment.
And yet, Trump got many of these protections anyway. He got even more than a defendant in court would get; his legal team was able to meet with Republican senators who were serving as jurors.
The Trump presidency may be over, but Schoen and van der Veen have the unfortunate distinction of earning Four Pinocchios just as the show was coming to an end. They and Scott, should read the Constitution.
Four Pinocchios.
That phone conversation between Trump and minority House leader McCarthy is the most damning evidence that has emerged so far.
Let Trump come to the trial and try to defend THAT!
FROM WIKI:
It was reported on February 12, that McCarthy called then President Donald Trump asking for help against the rioters during the insurrection. Trump refused to send the National Guard saying, "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are". McCarthy responded "Who the f--k do you think you are talking to?". This was reported to CNN by multiple Republican members of congress including Jaime Herrera Beutler and Anthony Gonzalez.
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Yes, that's right. McCarty had briefed many of them about the call, and one of them took extensive notes on the briefing.
Moscow Mitch McConnell said he will vote to acquit.
Treason
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