ALIVE AND STILL KICKING WITH MY WHITE BOARD
Posted on 01/18/2021 7:12:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said that as a member of the president's defense team in his upcoming impeachment trial he's preparing to argue that the president's claims of voter fraud did not constitute incitement to violence because the claims are true.
"They basically claimed that anytime [Trump] says voter fraud, voter fraud — or I do, or anybody else — we're inciting violence; that those words are fighting words because it's totally untrue," Giuliani told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl. "Well, if you can prove that it's true, or at least true enough so it's a legitimate viewpoint, then they are no longer fighting words."
Republican strategist Karl Rove told "Fox News Sunday" he thinks Giuliani has "charted a very bad course for the president" that is likely to persuade at least 17 Republicans to side with Democrats and convict Trump.
"Well, those charges and the so-called experts that the campaign has mustered to advocate them have been rejected by over 50 courts with judges appointed by President Trump, President Obama, Present Bush, President Clinton, and I think even one Reagan justice," he said.
"So if it's the Rudy Giuliani defense, there is a strong likelihood that more than 17 Republicans will (vote to convict) because essentially that argument is this was justified, the attack on the Capital and the attempt to end the congressional hearing on certifying the election was justified because all these charges are true, and frankly they aren’t," he said.
Giuliani and many of Trump's supporters have argued the courts did not dismiss the more than 60 cases based on the merits. And they point, among other things, to some 3,000 affidavits from witnesses of vote fraud.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
"I think it really boils down to what's the defense that the president is going to make, and if it is Rudy Giuliani’s defense, I think it raises the likelihood of more than 17 Republicans voting for conviction."
"For a notorious counterpuncher, avoiding a fight might be the most difficult decision of all, particularly because he has obvious defenses. First, he was denied due process when the House held an unprecedented 'snap impeachment' without a hearing or inquiry even though a trial likely would not occur immediately. Even a one-day hearing would have allowed evidence to be discussed as well as a formal request for a response," Turley wrote on his website.
"Second, the impeachment article is poorly crafted and poorly conceived, built around assertions that Trump’s Jan. 6 speech to supporters was an 'incitement to insurrection.' His speech raised potentially impeachable grounds; I condemned it as he gave it and opposed his challenge of electoral votes from the outset. But as I wrote previously, it would have been far better to censure him for it in a bipartisan, bicameral resolution," he said.
Bye Bye Rovie !!!
Not investigating election fraud in 2016, 2018 and now 2020 is poison to the GOPee going forward.
The GOP is already dead, they just don’t know it yet.
Hey Rove, bye Felicia!
Oh. You’re still here.
boycott rove and any candidate who works for him and his money. you heard me right.
Continued election fraud denial turns voters against the GOP.
If evidence falls in the woods and no judge hears it, did it make a sound?
There is a valid reason that Karl Rove is known as “Turd Blossom.”
The Republican party is now dead to me.
this guy is on the list, near the top
You fuc&$+g republican senators don’t get it... So allow me to explain..
If there is no difference between you and a liberal democrat, then why should we vote for you?
If we are going to be a socialist country, why do we need amateurs like you trying to run it?
If we are going to be a socialist country, I want it run by professional socialists..
In other words, toe the fuc@#+g line, or face extinction..
Is that clear enough for even your simple minds to understand?
Karl Rove is what happens when you want to be a political junkie but you have an IQ of about 65.
D I M . B U L B
Rove always speaks with authority, but is seldom right about much of anything.. professional buffoon.
“Rove, you magnificent Democrat!!”
Rove smells to High Heaven with the stink of the Bush dynasty.....he probably has something to fear or to hide
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