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Trump's defense looks shaky on first day of impeachment trial
NBC "News" ^ | January 21, 2020 3:31 PM | Jonathan Allen

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democratpartypress; dnctalkingpoints; fakeimpeachment; fakenews; fat; hack; jonathanallen; mediawingofthednc; nbc; nbcfakenews; partisanmediashills; peach45; peachfotyfi; pollutico; tds; whyarewehere; yellowjournalism
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To: kiryandil
Great find 😎
61 posted on 01/21/2020 11:58:17 PM PST by GeorgeWashington1777
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Right headline: Jesus walks on water!!

Headline of the left: Jesus can’t swim!


62 posted on 01/22/2020 12:05:55 AM PST by ALASKA (Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts....)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

the enemedia is distracting away from the shaky ground this debacle is built on...


63 posted on 01/22/2020 12:43:11 AM PST by heavy metal (truth trumps lies...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Listening to Schumer,Nadler and Schiff whine for 12 hours it didnt seem like it to me


64 posted on 01/22/2020 1:10:40 AM PST by RonnG (')
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To: SaveFerris

Yes, and I “Chucky Cheezy” Todd am 4 inches shorter than mini-Mike. That’s why I’m always shown sitting in a chair.


65 posted on 01/22/2020 1:55:51 AM PST by poconopundit (Joe Biden has long been the Senate's court jester. He's 24/7 malarkey and more corrupt than Hunter.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The leftist gas-lighting never stops.


66 posted on 01/22/2020 2:05:00 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I think it’s 24 hours spread over 3 days inst6of 2 days. And the president’s team supported it. Hardly even an issue


67 posted on 01/22/2020 2:22:38 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Have they done *any* research into the Trump legal team?

Didn’t Turtle’s rules pass?


68 posted on 01/22/2020 2:25:56 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The only defense statements I heard were brilliant.

They ripped the House Managers to shreds.


69 posted on 01/22/2020 2:28:54 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The Leftistist media and particularly CNN NEWS should come with a ten day supply of Cipro.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

After this, one half expects another NBC headline...

Boiling water isn’t really all that’s hot.


70 posted on 01/22/2020 2:31:26 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The Leftistist media and particularly CNN NEWS should come with a ten day supply of Cipro.)
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To: jz638

*Fan fiction* is a great term for it.

Sekulow, et al will make shredded wheat out of this imbecilic criminal enterprise.

Jay Sekulow has argued *12* cased before the Supreme Court. Very few attorneys get the opportunity to argue *one* in an entire lifetime. SCOTUS gets to pick and choose its cases.

Oh, and Sekulow presented his first case to SCOTUS at age *30*. That, in itself, is quite remarkable.

But, Schiffhead will mop the floor with Trump’s legal team. Take that to the bank.


71 posted on 01/22/2020 2:34:12 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Jonathan Allen (with his-author Amie Parnes) is the that overweight tub of lard who lied to us about what really went on in the HRC suite election night 2016.

He was embedded in the Clinton campaign thinking he and his partner were going to be the neo-Teddy Whites of the victorious Clinton Presidential campaign.


72 posted on 01/22/2020 2:46:00 AM PST by rockwell torrey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
...that he had to order up handwritten changes sought by Democrats just to secure enough GOP votes for the rules.

The change to three days was requested by Susan Collins and other weak republicans - NOT the dems.

73 posted on 01/22/2020 3:06:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: jazminerose
I guess you missed my sarcasm tag.

Yes,I know I didn't include one...

74 posted on 01/22/2020 4:55:16 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More proof of fake news. They keep on doing it and never learn.


75 posted on 01/22/2020 5:41:08 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: Nateman

PRAVDA.


76 posted on 01/22/2020 6:34:23 AM PST by krug
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