Posted on 02/12/2021 5:57:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial grew into a contentious fight night on the floor of the Senate Friday, as his Philadelphia lawyer repeatedly attacked Democrats and sparred with managers as well as senators seeking to test sturdiness of his defense.
Trump lawyer Michael Van der Veen was charged with responding to questions asked by senators themselves during a question-and-answer period spelled out in Senate rules – and used his time to snap at lawmakers who have advanced the impeachment effort.
At one point, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders submitted a question, which as read out by a clerk asked whether he believed Trump’s claim that the election was stolen or if in his judgment did Trump actually win the election.
‘My judgment? Who asked that?’ snapped Van der Veen, who had earlier accused Democrats of being motivated by ‘hatred.’
‘I did,’ responded Sanders, a Vermont independent who aligns with Democrats and has spent years serving in the chamber.
Democrats could be heard murmuring in the background. ‘My judgment is irrelevant in this proceeding,’ he responded.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairing the proceeding, had to gavel down the chamber and remind senators not to challenge the content of the response.
It was one of numerous times when Van der Veen took on a pugilistic role and went after his legal adversaries. He sneered about a ‘newly-created Raskin doctrine’ in a dig at Rep. Jamie Raskin, and accused Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas of twisting Trump’s words when he said Trump called on supporters to ‘fight to the death’ on Jan. 6th.
'I'm not from here, I'm not like you guys,' he told senators, gesticulating. He said he was being 'very polite' and giving Castro an opportunity to 'correct the record.'
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I just watched it. I wish I could have been in the room when it was playing, to see the faces of all the Democrats. The problem is, that none of them have a conscience, nor one iota of shame in themselves.
Doctoring the tweet of Jen Lawrence had to be the stupidest move ever. Swalwell is a complete moron and fraud.
If the Rs had guts articles of impeachment would be filed against every one of them for inciting violence.
What happened?
Including Mad Maxine Waters. She has ordered her creatures to attack and expel anything conservative, and by any means necessary. There is no way to walk that back.
Her rabble rousing has gone largely unchallenged by the GOP.
Then I would have played 13 hours of "Sleepy Joe" and Pencil Neck, and Comala, and Come to Chinatown Nancy, Lock Her Up Hillary, etc.
If that isn't giving false testimony before congress after being sworn in ... Lock them all up I say!
Swalwell presented a tweet from a Trump follower that Trump re-tweeted. The impeachment managers changed Jen Lawrence to be a verified Twitter user (blue check). She was never a verified Twitter user. Swalwell confused Calvery, in the biblical sense, to cavalry as in fighters on horseback. He completely misrepresent the Jen Lawrence tweets.
I think that is what the Trump lawyers referred to when saying in Philly, if you are caught doctoring evidence, your case is over.
Why isn't CNN doing their fact checking?
That point was well said and easily understood!
Well said and I agree 100%. From what I understand, to be verified (blue check) you need a substantial number of followers. That is where the credibility comes from. Like you, I wouldn’t notice something like that because I don’t give a damn about the number of followers someone has or if they have a blue check after their name.
LMAO!
How about Raskin having a photographer from the NYT come in and photograph him-what a moron. Our country is run by idiot psychos.
It was the most EPIC of trolls!!! And it also showed seamlessly the entirety of the Democratic Party’s leadership and (the Dems’ media arm) the main stream media’s amazing, abundant, and cellular hypocrisy and ability to lie, lie, lie just to sew together a completely false narrative at any price and for any reason.
Saw that when van der deen said if you get caught doctoring evidence the case is over. He really made them look like a bunch of dishonest fools. How embarrassing for Joachim Castro. His dishonesty just oozes from his pores. He also called out Castro for saying that Trump said fight to the death—which Trump did not say.
But he Fartswell.
Oh Jesus. I didn’t watch a single second of this sham trial live. I saw a few clips here and there.
I wouldn’t vote for a Democrat even if a close family member ran for something from that party. Never. My sweet wife is even more hardcore anti-Democrat than me.
Made me really miss President Trump and his presence on social media and in the spotlight. He’s not only confident. But has an excellent sense of humor.
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