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Trump Lawyers Rip 'Impeachment Inquisition' to Shreds in Powerful Defense Brief
PJ Media ^ | 01/20/2020 | Tyler O' Neill

Posted on 01/20/2020 2:41:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind

On Monday, President Donald Trump's legal defense team filed a 109-page brief (171 pages long including appendices) urging the U.S. Senate to reject the Democrats' articles of impeachment. The letter deconstructed the impeachment case and denounced the very charges as "an affront to the Constitution."

"The Articles of Impeachment now before the Senate are an affront to the Constitution and to our democratic institutions. The Articles themselves—and the rigged process that brought them here—are a brazenly political act by House Democrats that must be rejected," the lawyers wrote. "They debase the grave power of impeachment and disdain the solemn responsibility that power entails."

"The process that brought the articles here violated every precedent and every principle of fairness followed in impeachment inquiries for more than 150 years. Even so, all that House Democrats have succeeded in proving is that the President did absolutely nothing wrong," Trump's legal team argued. "After focus-group testing various charges for weeks, House Democrats settled on two flimsy Articles of Impeachment that allege no crime or violation of law whatsoever—much less 'high Crimes and Misdemeanors,' as required by the Constitution. They do not remotely approach the constitutional threshold for removing a President from office."

Yet fighting this impeachment is about more than just defending the president, the lawyers argued. "The diluted standard asserted here would permanently weaken the Presidency and forever alter the balance among the branches of government in a manner that offends the constitutional design established by the Founders," they wrote. "House Democrats jettisoned all precedent and principle because their impeachment inquisition was never really about discovering the truth or conducting a fair investigation. Instead, House Democrats were determined from the outset to find some way—any way—to corrupt the extraordinary power of impeachment for use as a political tool

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Read the entire brief here:

https://www.scribd.com/document/443624381/Trial-Memorandum-of-President-Donald-J-Trump#from_embed

1 posted on 01/20/2020 2:41:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Read the entire brief here:

https://www.scribd.com/document/443624381/Trial-Memorandum-of-President-Donald-J-Trump#from_embed


2 posted on 01/20/2020 2:42:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s a megasham for the Dummycrats.


3 posted on 01/20/2020 2:45:49 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: SeekAndFind

Will the senate have the gonads to do the right thing and dismiss this POS?....


4 posted on 01/20/2020 2:45:50 PM PST by oust the louse (The LEFT has no principles, it only has goals! They are the party of death, cheating and taxes.)
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To: oust the louse

Will the senate have the gonads to do the right thing and dismiss this POS?....


Trump doing what he does best “ their work for them”

Fill in the accomplishment - trade, employment, deregulation etc.

He’s taking it to the people this way if they allow this kabuki theater to extend too long.

Mitch M has been put on record, do your procedural, but then GET RID OF IT...

Rinos, you have been shown how your “ concern” will be nuked back on you if you side with Dems on anything.

Go Donald... We are with you


5 posted on 01/20/2020 2:48:35 PM PST by patriotspride
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To: SeekAndFind

If John Roberts lets this trial go on, you will know who he really is.


6 posted on 01/20/2020 2:51:10 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: SeekAndFind

Those that brought us to this point should be lined up against a wall and...


7 posted on 01/20/2020 2:51:51 PM PST by Bullish (Covfefe Happens)
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To: oust the louse

I know it’s tough to do because you try to maintain a positive outlook, but try not to associate gonads with the Republicans. Conservatives yes, GOPe no. All it takes is one look a Romney and you know. I’m married to a hockey mom with more testicular fortitude than Republicans. She’s been that way for all our 47 years together.


8 posted on 01/20/2020 2:53:07 PM PST by Equine1952 ((You can die on your feet or live down on your knees. You can not do both. Freedom Is not Free))
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To: SeekAndFind

And so it begins. I have two initial thoughts:

1. I have confidence in Trump’s legal team
2. I have confidence in the better judgement of ALL the Republicans. Even the weak ones won’t be able to go along with this sham. It is possible they will vote for witnesses, but in the end, they will vote for acquittal.

Call me overly optimistic... but I am optimistic.


9 posted on 01/20/2020 2:54:41 PM PST by samtheman (I hope someone close to Trump is reading FR every day.)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

I don’t think the Chief Justice has the power to dismiss the articles. The Constitution just says he shall “preside” while it’s the Senate itself that has “sole power” to try impeachments. A dismissal would have to be by Senate vote.


10 posted on 01/20/2020 2:55:33 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

I don’t think Roberts has much if anything to do. I think it’s up to the Senate.


11 posted on 01/20/2020 2:58:56 PM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: SeekAndFind

This trial should be dismissed now. But Republicans are gutless. I refuse to watch any of it.


12 posted on 01/20/2020 3:00:13 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: colorado tanker

He does not. Presiding over the trial yes but making decisions, ANY decision concerning procedure would be usurping Senatorial purview.


13 posted on 01/20/2020 3:02:34 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: SeekAndFind
Trump Lawyers Rip 'Impeachment Inquisition' to Shreds in Powerful Defense Brief

So easy even a caveman can do it.

14 posted on 01/20/2020 3:05:57 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: SeekAndFind

The brief contains an excellent examination of why Trump’s asking Zelensky to “look into” the Biden corruption on the phone call was entirely justified and proper. It starts on page 99 and lays the foundation for why Hunter and Joe would be called as witnesses if the articles are not simply dismissed.


15 posted on 01/20/2020 3:10:52 PM PST by Dave Wright
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To: SeekAndFind

When the impeachment is over bet many sinks will be found with bloody razor blades in them.


16 posted on 01/20/2020 3:21:00 PM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

We already know who and what he is.


17 posted on 01/20/2020 3:24:09 PM PST by Parmy
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

“If John Roberts lets this trial go on, you will know who he really is.”

1. I think (don’t know for sure) he doesn’t have power to continue it or make it stop.

2. We’ve known who he is since June 2012.


18 posted on 01/20/2020 3:28:30 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: Parmy

A Word About Democrats And The ‘Reeducation’ Of The American People

Leftists are big on “reeducating” we, the people. To them, we are too simpleminded to understand complex policy issues.

We do not know “what is best” for us. They, alone, have the answers.

Our moral and intellectual “betters” will shape our lives to make the world “a better prlace.”

All it takes is a bruising bunch of political power; ala the Hitler, Stalin, and Mao models.

After all, these storied heroes made the world a “Utopia.” (cue laugh machine here)


19 posted on 01/20/2020 3:29:11 PM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Parmy
We already know who and what he is.

Yes, he's the fool who swore in as President an ineligible buffoon.

The only question remains, was he bought and paid for, threatened, or being blackmailed?

20 posted on 01/20/2020 3:31:24 PM PST by ASA Vet (Jus Soli + Jus sanguinis = NBC)
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