Posted on 01/25/2020 5:48:46 PM PST by Libloather
President Trump’s attorneys accused House Democrats of bad faith - and hiding evidence - in a scathing opening statement as they began their impeachment defense Saturday.
“They have the burden of proof and they have not come close to meeting it,” White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said as he began their two-hour presentation on the sixth day of Trump’s impeachment trial.
“We intend to show you some of the evidence that they … decided over three days and 24 hours that they didn’t have enough time, or made a decision not to, show you,” Cipollone said.
Cipollone and three other members of Trump’s eight-lawyer team deconstructed the president’s July 25 phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accuse the Democrats of cherry-picking their evidence to cast the conversation in a nefarious light.
“Every time you see one of these pieces of evidence, ask yourself, ‘Why didn’t I see that in the first three days? They had it, it came out of their process, why didn’t they show that to the Senate?’” Cipollone asked.
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‘Attack’, ‘scathing’...no emotion-driven bias there. Nope...
Yet another groupwrite piece. The eighth grade work group carries on into their careers, one must guess. Takes three to do the mental work of one.
Journalism today: “It takes a group”
Bingo!
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