Senate Republicans Praise Trump Legal Team’s Follow Up Performance
TRUMP DEFENSE TEAM BOUNCES BACK
Jonathan Turley: Trump Defense Landed Some 'Haymakers'
Sen. Ron Johnson: Trump's Lawyers Blew The House's Case Out Of The Water, "Legally Eviscerated Them"
Democrats' Impeachment Argument Collapses Under the Weight of Their Own Hypocrisy
GOP leader McConnell will vote to acquit Trump
Ted Cruz Asks Impeachment Managers if Kamala Harris Incited Riots from Black Lives Matter Protests
Trump Defense Team Just Destroyed One of the Most Persistent of Democrat Lies
Impeachment Defense: Here's a Flashback to Kamala Harris Laughing About Killing Trump and Pence
I tell you how Trump’s lawyers eviscerated Democrats’ impeachment case. And lots more.
I tell you how Trump’s lawyers eviscerated Democrats’ impeachment case. And lots more.
But my personal favorite: NYT very upset with the fact that a defense was even put up? I guess only one side is allowed a narrative.
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| apparently liberal media is upset that the Trump team actually used all of his words rather than allow the Democrats edited version of events to stand! |
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Sen. Graham switches vote in favor of calling witnesses
I saw your post last night I knew that you have lost your mind Scott m
The heavily edited fight fight fight fight
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Bullshit
Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit
Defense video ended the whole thing
What does peacefully and patriotically mean if not peacefully and patriotically?
Scott one of the lawyers for citizen Donald Trump said that the January 6th attack was an insurrection under oath.
NYT
In an unexpected move, the Senate approved delaying a final verdict in former President Donald J. Trump’s trial so Democrats could call a Republican congresswoman as a witness and subpoena her notes after she confirmed she was told that the former president sided with the mob as rioters were attacking the Capitol.
Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the lead impeachment manager, said that Democrats wanted the congresswoman, Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington, to testify after she confirmed late Friday evening that Representative Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, told her that the former president had said during a phone call that the rioters were more upset about the election than Mr. McCarthy was. Mr. Raskin said he wanted a short deposition held virtually with the congresswoman and a subpoena for her contemporaneous notes.
“We believe we’ve proven our case,” Mr. Raskin said moments after the Senate convened in the impeachment trial session on Saturday morning. But he said Ms. Herrera Beutler’s statement amounted to “an additional critical piece of corroborating evidence, further confirming the charges before you.”
The president's defense team rejected Mr. Raskin’s proposal, with Michael T. van der Veen, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, offering a fiery condemnation of what he deemed to be a rushed attempt to call witnesses. He threatened to depose 100 witnesses, before complaining that a virtual hearing was an inappropriate format for additional evidence.
“Now is the time to hear closing arguments, now is the time to vote your conscience,” he said.
In her statement Friday night, Ms. Herrera Beutler said Mr. McCarthy told her that Mr. Trump had said the rioters storming the Capitol were “more upset about the election than you are,” and she pleaded with those who were at the White House with him that day, or former Vice President Mike Pence, to come forward and share eyewitness accounts and details about what they saw.
This was a big deal.
The President committed dereliction of duty, when he refused to call down the demonstrators.
It's on the record.
If they proved their case, they wouldn't be calling last minute desperation witnesses.
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 12, 2021 BY PAUL MIRENGOFF IN IMPEACHMENT
TRUMP DEFENSE TEAM BOUNCES BACK
The defense of Donald Trump at his impeachment trial got off to a rocky start earlier this week. There’s no denying that.
Today, however, the defense team came back strong in its closing argument. Trump’s lawyers used only about two and half hours of their allotted 16 to respond to the House managers’ case. That was enough to demolish it and to show the dishonesty of the managers’ presentation.
Below is video of the entire presentation plus the questioning of both sides (of which I did not watch much). The closing argument ends at around the 3 hour 18 minute mark. You can get a good feel for the defense if you begin at around the 2 hour 37 minute mark.
As I’ve said before, I think there is a decent, although ultimately unpersuasive, case for impeachment. But the House was in too big a rush to have made that case. The Article of Impeachment is an embarrassment, so it’s not surprising that the managers relied on emotion and distortion, rather than reason, in presenting it.
I doubt that more than five Republican Senators — the hard core anti-Trumpers — will vote to convict the former president. A sixth Republican, Sen. Cassidy, voted with the five on the question of whether a former president can be tried. Cassidy said that this vote, defensible on the merits, resulted from the weakness of the defense team’s argument on a close constitutional question.
Today, the defense team’s arguments were strong, so that any inclination Cassidy might have had to vote to convict has probably vanished.
The defense team took plenty of heat for arguing the constitutional question so poorly, and rightly so. But it should be commended for the substance and brevity of today’s effort.
Desperate direction
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
I noticed CNN pundits stopped calling the Jan 6th event an insurrection or coup. Now it's an assault or a riot. I guess it got too embarrassing reporting that the protestors nearly conquered the United States and held it.
I remember when people mocked me for saying Trump is smart and persuasive. Now he's being impeached specifically for being so persuasive that his words allegedly inspired an insurrection. And he suddenly became so smart that he knew exactly what his words would cause.
If protesters who marched on the Capitol intended to FORTIFY the Republic by making the election more transparent via audit, is that a coup? Feels like exactly the opposite to me. (We can all deplore the violence, of course.)
It is entirely reasonable to say that courts found no proof of widespread fraud in the election (true) at the same time we can say the result of the election was not credible. Credibility would come from full transparency or a lack of motive to cheat. Neither apply.
So their air toghy case now hangs on some second hand heresay he said that he said testimony. Yeah ok.
The right wing media has captured your mind .
Anonymous Myballs said...
If they proved their case, they wouldn't be calling last minute desperation witnesses.
yep, biased (already voted to impeach and apparently withheld her "bombshell evidence") hearsay witness.
Getting VERY old.
But not as old as the fraud in the White House.
Now an assisted living facility.
We're all still trying to figure out where yours has gone
Witnesses will be sworn in very soon.
Hearsay is acceptable in an impeachment case. This is not a criminal trial.
The Senators need to get a conscious and break away from Trump.
Roger Amick said...
The right wing media has captured your mind .
ROFLMFAO !!!
Defense to the new desperation witness...
So you claim he said that he said...
Yes...
But you didn't actually hear anything your self?
No...
No more questions. You may step down.
Myballs said...
We're all still trying to figure out where yours has gone
yep
Roger Amick said...
The Senators need to get a conscious and break away from Trump.
How much longer can this go on before he is locked up for his own good ???
I mean the alky of course.
And he won't have a clue.
This thread article looks like SUNDAY FUNNIES.
What a lot of BS.
Senate Votes to Call Witnesses In Impeachment Trial
10:27 am
The Senate voted 55 to 45 to allow the House impeachment managers to subpoena witnesses.
The Republican senators who joined Democrats in approving witnesses: Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Ben Sasse and Mitt Romney.
Graham originally voted “no” but changed his vote to “yes” after the roll call.
[My comment: In his recent book, Obama compared Graham to a character in a spy movie “who double-crosses everyone to save his own skin.”]
House Managers Will Seek Witnesses
10:07 am
The House managers will ask the Senate to subpoena witnesses for former president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
Specifically, they want to depose Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) who confirmed on Friday night that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told her that Trump had sided with the mob during the riot.
They would need 51 votes to subpoena witnesses.
What History Will Say About Trump’s Acquittal
10:03 am
“It’s not lost on historians that Donald Trump’s impeachment trial acquittal will fall on Presidents’ Day weekend, a holiday celebrating the examples set by America’s first president, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, who held the republic together through civil war and ended slavery,” Axios reports.
“Through his repeated efforts to overturn the election, Trump put the country through one of the toughest tests of democracy it has ever faced. Historians say his expected acquittal on a charge of inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection will have consequences we are only beginning to understand — and they’ll be felt for years.”
McConnell Will Vote to Acquit Trump
9:49 am
“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has told GOP colleagues in a letter that he will vote to acquit Donald Trump in the former president’s impeachment trial,” Politico reports.
“McConnell’s announcement ends a long period of silence over whether he would consider convicting Trump for incitement of insurrection and could pave the way for many other Republicans to follow in acquittal.”
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He will go down as one of the most unprincipled creeps in all our American history.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) picked a fight with Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on the Senate floor just now after the vote to call witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Politico reports.
Johnson turned to Romney and was visibly upset with him, even pointing at him once and saying, “I blame you.”
I see Goddard's ass must be overflowing.
Still no links provided by the POS "pastor"
Must be easier to plagiarize than provide the link
Or the "pastor" can't figure out that "internet" thing
Or he's embarrassed to show his "work"
And we know he can't comprehend what plagiarism is.
Maybe he can be roger's bunky when they come and get him.
They deserve each other.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Defense will call Harris and Pelosi. Be careful what you wish for.
The defense did not want witnesses, because, almost every witness, has first hand evidence.
The defense team is one of the worst in history. None of them have Constitutional law education. Because almost no great lawyers are willing to work for Trump.
The bold is what you left out "pastor", what you are doing is obviously plagiarism, though we know you can't comprehend that. That's why you are a democrat waterboy and a Biden lapdog. They count on people like you.
ROFLMFAO !!!
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Senate Votes to Call Witnesses In Impeachment Trial
February 13, 2021 at 10:27 am EST By Taegan Goddard 245 Comments
The Senate voted 55 to 45 to allow the House impeachment managers to subpoena witnesses.
The Republican senators who joined Democrats in approving witnesses: Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Ben Sasse and Mitt Romney.
Graham originally voted “no” but changed his vote to “yes” after the roll call.
https://politicalwire.com/2021/02/13/senate-votes-to-allow-witnesses/
Trump's lawyers turned impeachment into a MAGA video release. He 'loved' it.
The president was pleased as his legal team used Friday’s proceedings to rev up the base, including a nearly ten-minute montage of Democrats saying the word “fight.”
Trump is going back to when he was elected.
He thinks that he knows more than anyone else but himself.
I wonder if the Democrats will subpoena Trump.
Of course he loved it. It destroyed the house managers whole argument.
you're flailing alky.
badly.
LOL.
whatever will you do when Trump is acquitted?
LOL.
First witness for the democrats
roger amick
He has first hand testimony from the voices in his head
ROFLMFAO !!!
Now I haven't been following but is there other witnesses other than the congresswomen from Washington? The one without first-hand evidence?
And why did the House not have her testify and why did she not share her experience earlier. Was she also raped by Kavanaugh and in the room when Trump laughed at dead soldiers ?
I wonder if the Democrats will subpoena Trump.
not a chance. they don't have the fucking balls.
democrats are, at their core, sniveling cowards. each and every one of them.
plus, you give Trump the floor during this laughingstock of a fucking circle-jerk of a lying shitshow, and Trump mops the flood with the democrats and RINO's. each and every one of them.
you're talking roughly 150 to 1.
I'll take Trump every fucking day.
This whole thing has been blown apart by the conversation McCarthy had with Trump. He was so upset that he openly blabbed to a bunch of Republicans, one of whom took extensive notes, and several of whom are angry enough to report what McCarthy said.
That conversation made it crystal clear that Trump was delighted by what was happening at the Capitol and was resisting calling it off even though his own minority leader was telling him the rioters were breaking in his own windows and even said, "Who the F. do you think you're talking to?".
Meanwhile, some of Pence's people are absolutely enraged at how Trump disregarded his loyal Vice President's endangerment as well as that of his family.
All for the lie that he had won an election he never won, and knew it.
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