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Trump's defense looks shaky on first day of impeachment trial
NBC "News" ^ | January 21, 2020 3:31 PM | Jonathan Allen

Posted on 01/21/2020 7:37:00 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's defense failed him at the opening of his Senate impeachment trial on Tuesday.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had one job. He just had to collect 51 votes for the trial rules he had written, in close consultation with White House officials, to deliver Trump an acquittal quickly, quietly and with as few surprises as possible.

He couldn't do it.

Fellow Republicans balked at his plan so late in the game — moments before the start of the trial — that he had to order up handwritten changes sought by Democrats just to secure enough GOP votes for the rules.

So much for the modern "master of the Senate."

The other half of Trump's squad, his legal team, chose not to defend his actions with a cogent explanation for them. Rather than rebutting hours of evidence presented by House Democratic impeachment managers, White House lawyers opted to repeat Trump's attacks on the process and the disjointed set of rejoinders he's delivered to Democrats in public.

“If you can't even rise to the challenge of trying to defend your client," NBC News legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said on NBC News Now, "it becomes painfully obvious that the emperor has no defense."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democratpartypress; dnctalkingpoints; fakeimpeachment; fakenews; fat; hack; jonathanallen; mediawingofthednc; nbc; nbcfakenews; partisanmediashills; peach45; peachfotyfi; pollutico; tds; whyarewehere; yellowjournalism
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To: MNJohnnie

NBC has been citing that fake CNN poll. Did it this morning with that lying fraud Samantha Guthrie, who is married to a top dnc lobbyist.


41 posted on 01/21/2020 8:40:28 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Rather than rebutting hours of evidence presented by House Democratic impeachment managers

The shampeachment managers didn't have any evidence. How does one rebut something that doesn't exist?

42 posted on 01/21/2020 8:45:32 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Funny, I have a friend that is pretty apolitical any time there is not an actual election going on... He votes every time, mid-terms and every local election, but just does not pay much attention to politics otherwise, especially national stuff (his words)... That said, he has been an Anti-Trumper all along and has been talking down about Trump for 3 years now... Wishing he would be more presidential and calling him an idiot for stuff that gets reported in the news (even though he says he does not pay attention to politics, all he knows is what MSM reports).

But, when Impeachment talk started seriously before Christmas he said he thought they were stupid and started defending Trump and today he called me after watching the hearings and said this is so stupid and it seems like the Democrats have lost their minds...


43 posted on 01/21/2020 8:45:52 PM PST by AzNASCARfan
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To: conservative98

This guy doesn’t know what he is talking about. There was always going to be a trial!


44 posted on 01/21/2020 8:47:42 PM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: ocrp1982

The internet is full of articles like this. Apparently Adam Schiff is a reincarnation of Clarence Darrow.


45 posted on 01/21/2020 8:48:10 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Journalism? Really? Unbelievable. If these poor excuses for journalists had ANY integrity and pride in the tradition of their profession they would never make such proclamations. They are inserting their opinions, and/or their desires into what is supposed to be unbiased news. So very few of those holding media jobs currently are qualified to be called journalists - and that’s being charitable. They are an embarrassment.


46 posted on 01/21/2020 8:50:02 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: SaveFerris
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47 posted on 01/21/2020 8:51:49 PM PST by timestax
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To: SaveFerris; timestax; BenLurkin; Liz; dp0622; E. Pluribus Unum

48 posted on 01/21/2020 8:53:32 PM PST by 4Liberty (Impeached, for a retort about Rosie's unhealthy weight. Why not for Obama's "Special Olympics" slur?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
to see Adam Schiff walk into their chamber and shove a full dose of truth down their throats

Ha, ha! Full dose of truth? Didn't they read the news?

49 posted on 01/21/2020 8:54:24 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
to see Adam Schiff walk into their chamber and shove a full dose of truth down their throats

Ha, ha! Full dose of truth? Didn't they see news?

50 posted on 01/21/2020 8:54:45 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: neverevergiveup
NBClies
51 posted on 01/21/2020 8:55:07 PM PST by timestax
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To: timestax
nbc
52 posted on 01/21/2020 8:58:13 PM PST by timestax
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To: timestax

Most current media would have to fight really, really hard to become as credible as the average tabloid.


53 posted on 01/21/2020 9:08:36 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: timestax
matthews-trump-media-122315
54 posted on 01/21/2020 9:13:04 PM PST by timestax
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To: conservative98
What time are the impizzaments coming?

I hear this deal is going to last like, thirty hours or somethin'!

55 posted on 01/21/2020 9:23:10 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: AzNASCARfan

He’s not alone. This is going to wake up a lot of them


56 posted on 01/21/2020 9:23:11 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Adam schiff committed perjury- and the left say Trump’s team was ‘shaky’? Lol- my how the left do spin and spin and spin-


57 posted on 01/21/2020 9:40:11 PM PST by Bob434
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To: MNJohnnie

I really really hope support from the low info folks for impeachment drops dramatically- scaring the crap out of the left-


58 posted on 01/21/2020 9:41:36 PM PST by Bob434
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I bet NBC will not report on this development:

Senate rejects subpoenaing Mulvaney to testify in impeachment trial. The vote: 53 to table, 47 for the subpoena:

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/479288-senate-rejects-subpoenaing-mulvaney-to-testify-in-impeachment-trial

I say this was WINNING!


59 posted on 01/21/2020 10:06:29 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: jonrick46
bedtime
60 posted on 01/21/2020 10:20:54 PM PST by timestax
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