While Trump’s lawyers and his friends in the Senate and House want to forget the spectacle of the January 6th US Capitol protests, vandalism and assaults?
Democrats are seeking to bring it ALL back into view against Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial….
The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump begins in the Senate on Tuesday, where senators will be confronted with the violent events of the January 6 riot and whether Trump is culpable for inciting the insurrectionists that attacked the Capitol and placed their lives in danger.
Ahead of the opening arguments, the House impeachment managers filed their final pretrial legal brief that rebutted the Trump team’s filing from Monday, in what amounts to a preview of the arguments that will play out in the Senate in the coming days.
The managers intend to lay out a “devastating” case that Trump is responsible for the riot, from his actions in the weeks leading up to it and his failure to act to stop it, senior aides to the House impeachment team said Tuesday.
The aides would not tip their hand on whether they might call witnesses at the trial, but they told reporters that the managers’ argument would be a detailed and compelling case that leaves no doubt about Trump’s guilt. The managers planned to present new evidence, the aides said, but they would not elaborate.
The case would be like a “violent crime criminal prosecution,” one aide said….
Note….
Democrats WILL BE very much playing to an audience of the American public…thru the media
Most Republicans don’t care….
Or…
Agree with Trump…
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have warned Trump that while he has the votes for acquittal, he can still screw it up. “Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory” is the phrase Kushner has been heard using to describe the worry, our
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“What if a member of Congress or Vice President Pence,God forbid, had been killed?iI honestly don’t think that anything would be different on the floor of the Senate.”
CNN commentator Jake Tapper
Jake doesn’t realize that those Republicans who are going to acquit Trump really don’t “like” him.
Divided Senate votes to proceed with impeachment trial of Trump…
Vote was 56-44…
Onward!
So it was the same five Republicans who originally voted to proceed plus Bill Cassidy of La.
Wonder what got into him?
He’s gonna catch Hell in La.
I’m butting in here without reading the previous comments to express my frustration with how bloody awful the President’s (non-Congressional) team is.
The first lawyer was so long, circumspect and discursive that his apparent point at the end was buried at the end in a First Amendment argument that was very poorly anchored to Trump’s agitation and incitement.
Mr Schoen, probably because his own time had been so greatly curtailed by his predecessor’s lazy loquacity, is trying to cram a 100 or 120 page book into heaven knows how little time. I can’t follow his machine-gun delivery over time, with distractions such as Chairman Mao.
Should Jack ever teach Legal Argument, he might use this as a Horrible Example of what not to do.
From my own experience on stage and in the press, the lawyers don’t seem to understand the two-way interaction between performer and audience, teacher and class, or lawyer and judge or juror.
(By the way, that’s what’s wrong with Stephen Colbert today; without a real audience, he just can’t judge his own timing and material.)
No constitutional scholar am I .
Just an average lawyer somewhere in the middle of the pack,however,this seems to be a classic of the old lawyers adage…
Got an innocent client?Argue the facts.
Got a Guilty client ?Argue the law.
Guess what these guys have?
Countdown begins to the censure of Sen. Bill Cassidy by the Louisiana Republican Party.
Dix, neuf, huit, sept, six, cinq, …
I’m actually disappointed that Trump is even presenting a defense.
I was hoping he would just show his utter contempt for these Republican sheep by not replying at all.
The vote would be about the same .
It’s the Senate
There HAS to be a defense
Rules, eh?
So 6 Republicans backed the process, will all six vote to convict? Will any others join them in voting to convict…As we all know the trial no matter how good the Democrats argument is (and the team knocked it out of the park on the first day) won’t convict, but are there any more defections from the GOP. I know that probably 45 will vote not to convict based solely on the idea (political cover) that the trial is unconstitutional, but can there be one or two more that say fuck it, the guy was a disaster, he is guilty and fucked not only the GOP but fucked the whole country?
Right Now?
The lean is acquittal….
We’ll see….
“Lean.?”
Haha!
You’ve gone full Republican lackey.
There’s no “lean.”
It’s a slam dunk..ACQUITTAL.
Those Trumpists Republicans couldn’t care less about this “trial.”
They’re gonna do what the Republican Party wants and that is let their Leader live to fight another day.
“Lean?”
That’s the funniest damn thing I’ve heard of all your silliness here lately and that covers a lot of ground!
Various media reports are that many Republican Senators weren’t even watching the Democratic managers presentation against their leader.
Don’t confuse these sheep with the facts!
Meanwhile Mitch is back on that “vote of conscience” routine.Of course his “conscience “ tells him that the whole thing is “unconstitutional.”
Yeah – McConnell delays the trial until Trump is out of office. But now, the trial is unconstitutional because Trump is out of office.
How Republican!
Was it really McConnell who delayed the impeachment?
I thought the Conventional Wisdom was that that was a Democratic plan.
DSD….
Things where all over the place….
GOPer’s didn’t want anything….
Pelosi wanted a trial bar none….
Biden wanted to hold off for a month….
What we have a bit of everyone’s ‘wants’
McConnell was still Majority Leader throughout the first three weeks of January. He adjourned the Senate until the 19th. The House didn’t have anyone to deliver the Article of Impeachment to.
Yeah but Keith you don’t understand…
Uncle Mitch “really doesn’t like” Trump.
And that means exactly what?
Oh….
Tell him James.
The same Mitch called out the party leader and has told his caucus members to vote their conscience ….
Let’s also remember the Democratic President also wasn’t in a hurry….
Oh s now it’s Bidens fault?
As to Mitchs speech,you mean the one where he says Trump committed impeachable offenses , but now says that same impeachment is “unconstitutional.” Is that what you’re referring to lackey?
Then of course after all this?
“Boys and girls vote your conscience.”( heh heh heh)
Meanwhile Lindsay Graham has “assured” Trump he will be acquitted.
After that airport incident where he was harassed last month ole Lindsay wabts to convey to Trump loyalists that he will never merely spit after giving Trump a BJ. He will swallow with a smile every damn time from now on!