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Trump never conceded he lost, but his impeachment lawyer did
apnews.com ^ | February 9, 2021 | JESSICA GRESKO

Posted on 02/09/2021 10:13:33 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper

One of the lawyers heading former President Donald Trump’s defense at his second impeachment trial did what Trump himself has not: conceded Joe Biden won the presidential election. —

In opening remarks Tuesday, lawyer Bruce Castor said: “The American people just spoke, and they just changed administrations.” He added that Americans are “smart enough to pick a new administration if they don’t like the old one, and they just did.”

The comments by Castor, a former county prosecutor in Pennsylvania, were a surprising contrast to Trump’s defiance. The former president repeatedly disputed the results of the election, falsely claiming he won in a “landslide.” And he kept up the baseless claims through the end of his presidency, including during a speech at a rally that preceded the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, which set in motion his trial on a charge of incitement of insurrection.

“We will stop the steal,” he said at the rally. “Today I will lay out just some of the evidence proving that we won this election, and we won it by a landslide. This was not a close election.”

There was no widespread fraud in the election, as has been confirmed by election officials across the country and former Attorney General William Barr. Dozens of legal challenges to the election put forth by Trump and his allies were dismissed.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: concefssion; concession; cowardkeywordabuser; dissociatedpress; fakefreepers; fakeimpeachment; fakenews; ibtz; keywordrage; tds; trump; turncoatlawyers; zot; zotalready
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1 posted on 02/09/2021 10:13:33 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

2 posted on 02/09/2021 10:17:18 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
tell us again how the President Trump didn't win and how there were no 'irregularities' ...


3 posted on 02/09/2021 10:19:50 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“The American people just spoke, and they just changed administrations.” He added that Americans are “smart enough to pick a new administration if they don’t like the old one, and they just did.”

Other than that, Castor did a fantastic job.

Even with that, the statement does not take anything away from President Trump and built a solid case for the Senate to not take up impeachment.


4 posted on 02/09/2021 10:20:12 PM PST by Meatspace
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To: BenLurkin

Trump was a fool surrounded by morons, incompetents, backstabbers and grifter family members. He was personally strong and tough to go through what he went through, but he wasted his time, ultimately, and ours because now, the left is more powerful than eve. And they are ready to unleash their Final Solution on us. Thank you for nothing, Stable Genius™.


5 posted on 02/09/2021 10:20:28 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: Captainpaintball

And he ran a dreadful campaign, based on his personal grievances instead of the voter’s concerns.


6 posted on 02/09/2021 10:27:30 PM PST by nbenyo
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Maybe someone can help Trump to pick his lawyers.
He needs assistance. Maybe Jared’s father knows somebody.

I know Trump would love to get out there and represent himself, but better not to give the Dems that spectacle they have been begging for. It would be the perfect distraction while Old Joe passes that next set of 51 Executive Orders Kamala tells him to sign.


7 posted on 02/09/2021 10:27:31 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Good Lord, love him but he has such a poor record of hiring dumbf**ks!


8 posted on 02/09/2021 10:30:42 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix/1984.)
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Where was Mark Levin? Trump could have used him!!!


9 posted on 02/09/2021 10:34:40 PM PST by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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To: lee martell

Trump can ask the same people that helped him with all the law enforcement appointments. They did swimmingly on that too.

It’s almost as if it is RIGGED to screw him over.


10 posted on 02/09/2021 10:35:11 PM PST by Salvavida
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“Ape Pee”


11 posted on 02/09/2021 10:43:20 PM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Considering how many bad hires Trump made and continues to make, it’s amazing how great a president he was. When he takes office again in 2025, I hope his hires will be a lot better.


12 posted on 02/09/2021 10:43:52 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: sten
Great chart, sten.

Thanks for posting.

I keep reminding Freepers that Trump lost the election by just 43,000 votes in three states - AZ, GA, WI.

With those three states, Trump ties Biden at 269-269.

Since the House of Representatives votes by state delegation, and not by individual Congressmen, Trump would almost certainly have been reelected.

13 posted on 02/09/2021 10:44:50 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: nbenyo

We should have donated more to Trump before the election rather than after.


14 posted on 02/09/2021 10:45:14 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: BenLurkin
It's interesting to me that the One Hundred Clowns of the us senate are pretending that there was no vote fraud, and that the "erection" wasn't stolen.

Interesting facts like these always have an explanation.

15 posted on 02/09/2021 10:49:50 PM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: Captainpaintball
Trump also sucks at hiring lawyers. Michael Cohen was his personal attorney and disaster. Giuliani is senile and lost every case in the election fight, and now Trump puts up two losers who bungle the easiest argument possible: you can't remove the president if he isn't the president.

Trump got wrecked today, and anyone is says his lawyers did a good job is delusional. Dems are fighting dirty with a sick propaganda video, and Team Trump isn't even fighting.

16 posted on 02/09/2021 10:50:10 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: Berlin_Freeper; nbenyo
We should have donated more to Trump before the election rather than after.

It wouldn't have mattered - the fix was in.

It makes me smile that we hit the coupsters so hard with our votes that they had to run The Steal in plain sight.

Almost four months later, and they still won't let us look at the ballots in Maricopa, Fulton, and Wayne.

Forget about Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

Those two third-world vote fraud Mittholes would have to be nuked from orbit just to make sure.

17 posted on 02/09/2021 10:55:47 PM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

AP = America’s Pravda


18 posted on 02/09/2021 10:58:11 PM PST by McGruff
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To: Berlin_Freeper

asspress “news”

Hillary was still calling Trump an illegitmate president in 2019.

I loathe Stalinst shills.


19 posted on 02/09/2021 10:59:15 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: nbenyo

Yeah, sure.
4 AM vote dumps had nothing to do with it.
Uh huh.


20 posted on 02/09/2021 10:59:28 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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