Yeah, if I were Trump I’d refuse to appear. John Roberts gave him an out. Trump should say: “The process is unconstitutional. I am an ex president. The Supreme Court Chif justice agrees. Go diddle yourself in the closet and leave me alone.”
I’d be very tempted to not even have a defense in this fraud. Very loudly point out every day this goes on what a waste of time and money it is too.
“, if I were Trump I’d refuse to appear”
Trump isn’t going to appear, just like he didn’t in the first impeachment trial. That’s not even on the table. But it would be massively stupid to just not have his lawyers show up. That would about guarantee the Senate would convict, spite for spite.
Is Trump an ex president? I’m not so sure. He clearly won the election last November The very fact the Democrats openly moved millions of votes over to Biden, and the fact they held a sham inauguration really doesn’t matter. See tagline. President Trump is a legitimate president and the Congress knows it.
That’s why this impeachment is so important. They want to give an air of legality to the illegal deeds they have done.
Agree, President Trump should tell Congress to go fornicate themselves and refuse. He’d get way more support for that than appearing.
What a complete joke this is.
That would be too easy. Perhaps he wants to be a martyr, and actually get convicted, but portray at last the voluminous evidence of fraud already presented in six state legislatures, and ignored by the media. After he’s convicted, he can appeal to SCOTUS on the grounds that the trial was unconstitutional, and force them to actually take a stand and rule directly on the merits. Whether or not he gets to hold the office of POTUS in 2025 would then be a moot point. They probably will kill him anyway. He will have forced truth on the deep state, in the bright lights of television cameras, starkly and without spin. They cannot be allowed to steal the next election.