Posted on 01/25/2020 12:54:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald Trump's lawyers defended the president against articles of impeachment Saturday morning arguing it’s the Democrats trying to interfere in elections by seeking to remove Trump from the 2020 ballot for doing “absolutely nothing wrong.”
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said Democrats have no case and are doing damage to democracy by trying to undermine the will of American voters.
“For all their talk about election interference, they're here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in American history,” Cipollone said in his opening remarks to the Senate. “And we can't allow that to happen."
Cipollone continued: “It would violate the sacred trust that the American people have placed in you and have placed in them. The American people decide elections. They have one coming up in nine months.”
Saturday was the first chance Trump’s lawyers had to refute the House’s case of impeachment and they came out making a forceful case that there are no grounds to remove Trump from office. Not only are Democrats asking the Senate to undo the results of the 2016 election but to tear up all ballots in the 2020 election with Trump’s name, Cipollone charged.
“They're asking you to do something that no Senate has ever done and they're asking you to do it with no evidence. And that's wrong,” Cipollone said.
Billed as a teaser for next week's argument, Trump's legal team gave a 2-hour preview of their legal argument. All told, they'll have three days and up to 24 hours to launch their defense - the same amount of time as House managers -- but Cipollone told senators up front they would be "respectful" of their time and make their presentations shorter and less repetitive than Democrats.
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Cipollone told senators up front they would be “respectful” of their time and make their presentations shorter and less repetitive than Democrats...
DOH!
8-12 hours of detailed presentations is PLENTY for a non repetitive defense.
And will win favor with the Senate that had to put up with 24hrs of misery from Schiff and Nadler et al.
OMG them rolling the MASSIVE amounts of HUGE binders in to be put on the record was just HYSTERICAL, REALLY???
The American people have the opportunity to throw out every member of Congress who voted for the phony articles of impeachment in the House and any senator who votes guilty in the trial.
I’m extremely ticked off with this coup, the continuous, ongoing corruption, lies and slander of trying to take down our duly elected president by the left. I expected more anger shown from our defense. I’m disappointed so far.
Yeah, but they keep saying they need additional documents to support their case.
That is what Trumps team needs to do put up a screen shot of them rolling these MASSIVE BINDERS into the senate and just say “WHY in the world would they need MORE documents” BOOM!!!!
I'm praying that the coup will fail. There are enough people who are extremely ticked off that this could end very badly for those who are attempting to overthrow the duly-elected President of the United States.
:)
“Brevity is the soul of wit”. Sage advice from the greatest writer in the world.
Agreed. I do believe also that Trump’s team gave an opening for calling witnesses. Debbie Stabenow described their objective. Rather than the House waiting for answers from the courts on subpoenas for witnesses they expect Cheif Justice John Roberts (already present in the Senate) to compell witnesses to testify now. I don’t trust Roberts.
You're not used to it so far?...I am.
FMCDH(BITS)
You said....” I expected more anger shown from our defense. I’m disappointed so far”.....
Were you listening to what the defense was actually presented?
They are Representing the United States President. Would you have them act like the Dems with all the drama to divert from the truth? This is not a public ‘show’ it’s a Trial on Impeachment of a Duly elected President who is not guilty.
And the defense pointed out they had no legal/constitutional basis for their requests/demands because the magic wand was waved by Nancy w/o a House vote to grant them subpoena power and other things they needed to conduct a legal investigation - when the WH refused to roll over and responded that the requests were no legal, they punted straight to the articles because they would have had no legal standing to fight for the info/witnesses in any court of law...they insured that they had no legal basis to demand the info and then claimed they couldn’t get it because....obstruction...
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