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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Yes, she was annoying...She wanted to suggest that Trump defense team was racist...For showing black female Democrats in video clips...
She was not the only Impeachment manager who wanted to bring up racism...Congressman Cicilline complained that janitors had to clean up the mess in the Capitol building left behind by white supremacists...He said that many janitors were minorities...Just ridiculous...Bring up racism whenever possible...Enough already...
It’s interesting right... for days the media alerts forced into my phone from google (yes i havent turned them off) have been sensationalizing the democrats case. Headlines splashed “Democrats show Former President Trump Fomented Violence!” then you drive into the story and you find out at the end of the paragraph that they did no such thing. But today the democrats headline is “Trump Lawyers show clips of democrats saying the word ‘fight’ and ‘accusing’ and ‘alleging’. All these words presuming innocence are reserved for the people they support. But the presumed guilt is assigned to the people they do not support.
They even put quotes around the word ‘hypocrites’ as if they dont realize the word applies to the writer!
When Saunders asked about the stolen election, I would have replied, “You should know all about having elections stolen from you.”
I was cheered mightily by this great defense and counter-attack on the lying, dishonest Democrats.
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