Posted on 01/21/2020 7:37:00 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's defense failed him at the opening of his Senate impeachment trial on Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had one job. He just had to collect 51 votes for the trial rules he had written, in close consultation with White House officials, to deliver Trump an acquittal quickly, quietly and with as few surprises as possible.
He couldn't do it.
Fellow Republicans balked at his plan so late in the game — moments before the start of the trial — that he had to order up handwritten changes sought by Democrats just to secure enough GOP votes for the rules.
So much for the modern "master of the Senate."
The other half of Trump's squad, his legal team, chose not to defend his actions with a cogent explanation for them. Rather than rebutting hours of evidence presented by House Democratic impeachment managers, White House lawyers opted to repeat Trump's attacks on the process and the disjointed set of rejoinders he's delivered to Democrats in public.
“If you can't even rise to the challenge of trying to defend your client," NBC News legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said on NBC News Now, "it becomes painfully obvious that the emperor has no defense."
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Thanks for the link...adults... LOL
ROFL!!!
you can’t make this stuff up :)
I bet they spent all 3 days over the holiday weekend writing this up.
I bet they spent all 3 days over the holiday weekend writing this up.
The MSM Spin Machine is in full gear. Every MSM outlet, in typical coordinated fashion is spewing the same line. Schiff is the man and President Trumps legal team took a power shot to the gut.
This is their last desperate attempt before the election season goes into full swing. And, they are coordinating a narrative in a last desperate attempt to take the President down.
Yet, surprisingly the pubbies have held their ground. Denying the dems their extended circus. The dems and their MSM propagandists ain’t happy about this at all. So, they are in nuclear spin mode.
Right which is why you lost all 3 votes today 53-47 Democrats pretending to be “Journalists”
Right which is why you lost all 3 votes today 53-47 Democrats pretending to be “Journalists”
Did it “look black”, NBC “News”?
Dear Morons at NBC
Law school 101. Corrupt proceses produce corrupt outcomes. the Accused has been denied Due Process during this whole clown show. He has NO need to prove himself innocent. He merely has to point out the total fraud that is the Democrat Fascist Party case.
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...After he had been here about a month, we gave [Jonathan] Allen what we thought would be good news: We wanted him to join us as a regular staff writer, with some extra money to boot. But Allen had other ideas and told us, to our dismay, that he was thinking of leaving journalism. After some more discussion, it became clear he was dreaming not merely of an exit from journalism but of an entrance into a new career as a Capitol Hill [Democrat] political operative...
Lookit this! Jonathan Allen is STILL a Capitol Hill Democrat political operative, 10 years later!
If ever there was a time, and timing is important, now is that time for Trump and team to throw down and expose the whole bloody corrupt lot of them.
I don’t understand this deluded fan fiction. They are either truly stupid or they believe their readership is.
According to NBDNC.
Not surprising at all. Thanks for the info. I was totally unaware of any of that. Not surprised at all. Par for the course but, it’s info I was unaware of.
I do believe that the Democrat insistence in making all these losing motions and keeping many Republican Senators up past their bedtimes will end up to their detriment.
I will say that this joke impeachment could use a little more humor.
dems doctored evidence.
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