What's wrong with that?
Posted on 01/23/2021 1:54:20 AM PST by Libloather
Can former President Donald Trump get a fair trial?
It’s a question worth asking, as his impending impeachment before the Senate appears to favor speed over due process.
According to Politico, multiple sources on Capitol Hill said that lawmakers have privately discussed the possibility of a three-day impeachment trial for Trump - the fastest of any such procedure for a president. (Bill Clinton’s impeachment lasted nearly two months, and Trump’s first trial clocked in at about three weeks.)
Talks about the trial’s parameters between Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are still ongoing, so nothing has been carved in stone. But it’s clear senators want to fast-track the process as the nascent Biden administration gets off the ground.
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell changed a controversial provision in the rules for the trial that would have required House prosecutors and White House attorneys to make 24 hours of legal arguments in just two days and could have barred evidence gathered by the House, according to NBC News.
The new version gives both sides 24 hours to make their cases over three days.
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What's wrong with that?
Trump should defend himself on the senate floor with side council to keep him on the rails. Democrats and CNN heads would explode 🤯. Serve up the popcorn Mr. President😋
It is Mitch McConnell, who has been a backstabbing, lying America-killing fraud.
Trump should make fun of these idiots and tell them to get effed. You can’t impeach a private citizen.
Would love to see DJT appear at his trial and give a speech along the lines of Al Pacino’s “crock of s—t” monologue from Scent of a Woman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd10x8LiuBc
Therefore, the evidence will not be limited to the president's speech but every utterance he ever made and every act he ever undertook in office will be adduced in support of that proposition. Most important, the assumption will be made that the mere questioning of the count of the election is in itself incitement to riot or somehow a crime against the Constitution.
Further, the incident will be attributed to white supremacy which of course is the most toxic charge, even if not one of the bill of particulars.
The the president's defense obviously will be to point out the moderation of his speech especially the phrase when he exhorted the crowd to " protest peacefully and patriotically."
Before they get to that there will be motion practice, the president's team will move to dismiss because the president is already out of office. If that does not carry the president's team will move to limit the charge to traditional incitement to riot, not opposition to the count.
If the motions fail, it is in the president's interest to have an extended trial to demonstrate that it has been the tradition in America to question the count and to do that by quoting, preferably by video, leading Democrats who have already done that in previous elections.
Finally, it is in the president's interest to have an extenuating trial to raise as an affirmative defense all of the dubious efforts by the Democrats to impeach him and to prevent him from taking office since 2016, to point out that there were plans by leftists to riot etc.
A short trial works to the advantage of the Democrats and Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump needs a full hearing to get on the attack. This is after all not an actual impeachment but a Soviet style sham trial rigged for the cameras.
Mitch McConnell will collude with the Democrats to foreshorten the trial, deny actual witness testimony, and require the entire matter to be argued in theory rather than proved in fact. All of these restrictions operate against Donald Trump.
With advocates like Mitch McConnell who needs prosecutors?
DJT is a New Yorker so expect a My Cousin Vinny line: “Everything that guy just said is B**S**t”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXjQoT2iq6U
If the Republicans won’t resist the Democrats impeaching their president after he’s left office, then they’re pretty much worthless as a party.
We’re getting down to elemental stuff here.
I mean, we don’t even get appropriate expressions of outrage from our party. They compound their ineffectiveness with contemptible quietness and acquiescence.
Disgusting.
Agree with your thesis. Mitch and his rino members want to restore control of the Republican party for their own objectives and vanquish Trump.
Can’t continue now that he is gone. But they will try because they are afraid he will run again and they won’t be able to cheat the same way. What is strange is we have not heard a peep from Trump. I know he can’t post on line. But he is strangely quiet for a guy that has a mouth. He is waiting on something and we have no idea what it is. Maybe he is waiting for the truth to come out. Am hoping someone somewhere will stick up for him. But by Trump sitting back and letting them dog him makes him look better and them look like bullies.
With the turtle acquiescing to the dimmies’ demand to punish President Trump, this was enough for me to let go of the spineless repyublicans.
I’m sure this has been covered, maybe Trump did win, is still the POTUS, they know it and have to impeach him.
Trump did win, but only in legal votes, which are not the deciding factor. Congress ratified the corrupt Electoral College votes, and Slow Joe the Pervert was inaugurated.
It’s over except for their political show trials and their subsequent widespread persecutions . . . or whatever path we take to remedy this disaster.
The major disadvantage is that it will show the world that we've become a Banana Republic. But most of them already know that.
Here is my theory as to the events of January 6. Trump supporters have planned to stage a rally in the nation’s capital expected to draw 10s of thousands on the day that Electoral votes are to be counted/challenged in Congress.
In addition there is widespread fear that there will be far more Trump supporters than Biden fans at Biden’s inauguration. This would, of course humiliate the new President. How to stop this from happening?
Have agents provocateurs “storm” the Capitol followed by some Trump supporters caught up in the moment carefully staying between the rope lines. Trash a few offices, break a few windows etc. They are cleared out fairly quickly. This accomplishes three things.
The vote challenges are quickly dropped, remember that originally there were to be challenges to each of the swing states, but only one occurred after the ‘riot’.
Trump is instantly impeached in the House for attempting ‘insurrection’ with 10 republicans going along with the idea that a President can lead an insurrection against a government he leads. If he’s convicted by the Senate, he can be barred from running for any Federal office, thus permanently killing the Trump threat to the swamp.
Although the Wuhan virus was going to be the excuse for small crowds for the immensely popular Biden’s inauguration, now 10 of thousands of troops can be brought in the the capital because of the “real threat of insurrection”. No embarrassing moment when large crowds boo Biden as he takes the oath.
That’s what happened.
And is ongoing with the insurrection theater.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they dragged it out for three weeks for maximum propaganda.
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