Posted on 01/31/2021 5:12:46 AM PST by jstolzen
(CNN) Former President Donald Trump's five impeachment defense attorneys have left a little more than a week before his trial is set to begin, according to people familiar with the case, amid a disagreement over his legal strategy.
It was a dramatic development in the second impeachment trial for Trump, who has struggled to find lawyers willing to take his case. And now, with legal briefs due next week and a trial set to begin only days later, Trump is clinging to his election fraud charade and suddenly finds himself without legal representation.
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Good grief...Trump is his own worse enemy!!! Unless he gets past this impeachment mess there is no future for Trump, no 2024.
I didnt say YOU said it. I said Trump likely wants to make it the focus.
Thus , he cant keep lawyers who dont want to make it the focus.
IMO, it’s a mistake and it will cost him Senate votes.
Show up himself as his own witness and call them all out on live tv
he may want to blow it all up..similar to the current GME fiasco....which is going to hurt more than just a few wall street fat cats if it doesn’t resolve soon.
401ks are going to take a hit
and it has to potential to be a 2008 scenario.
add in Biden completely mishandling everything...
2021 may be worse than 2020
Paraphrasing here.....’the truth is still the truth even if no one believes it.....and a lie is still a lie even if everyone believes it’. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
cnn is nothing more than a pandering blog.
Hiring Omerosa and all those others was the correct instincts? Gotcha.
I agree with all you have written. It’s unconstitutional and Trump’s legal team should be in court trying to get an injunction to stop the impeachment until the constitutionality has been decided. If Trump finds lawyers who do not go for dismissal and attempt to make this about voter fraud, a number of Republicans who voted that it was unconstitutional last week will change their votes. I think Trump has been listening to Steve Bannon, who is not a lawyer to my knowledge, speaking everyday that Trump needs to bring the election fraud receipts to the trial (and not go the dismissal route). IMHO, this would be a grave mistake. The Dems in charge are NOT going to let Trump bring up the election fraud in any detail. Trump needs this dismissed quickly and prove the voter fraud in a book. Losing his entire legal team (and Turley, Dershowitz, Starr do not want to be involved—Trump has very limited options and the trial is 1 week away). This is not good and the Dems are probably salivating.
Do you believe that Chuck Schumer (and some Republicans) will give him that platform?
Do you believe that Chuck Schumer (and some Republicans) will give him that platform?
I really wish we had a Ignore button!!
The democrats and the republicans have ONE goal in this scam: make trump or his lawyers admit there was no election fraud. They will not be satisfied with any other outcome.
I don’t think it takes two weeks to prepare to say, “Sorry, you bunch of morons, but Donald Trump is no longer the President and you cannot impeach a private citizen. Please read the United States Constitution before making further jackasses of yourselves.”
Hard to stop it. IMO.
Amazing how many fall for these fake news stories. Or should I say depressing.
Revisionist BS. Trump couldn’t have a meeting the Russian President without both sides of Congress threatening to get translators to testify. The Senate is a joke of an institution and can’t be stormed fast enough.
I am ‘hearing’ that we will hear from God on this and many other events!!! David vs. Goliath. The Red Sea parting just in time. Maybe not a lawyer needed, just millions of prayers and intervention from the heavenly hosts fighting evil in DC....
Let’s get praying. Let’s have FAITH!!!! God’s plan is so far above any man’s plan that we’re going to have a knee praising celebration with truth like we never have seen!!! Plus, our friends praying around the world will rejoice with our victory!!!!!!!
If Trump's team is too incompetent to do this -- and that's a likely prospect -- some conservative organization that has interns and Lexis-Nexis should take it on. Done right, it would be a considerable body of work.
Being reported by multiple news sources.
Our wishing it to be fake news doesn’t make it so..
And to those who say “who cares?”..WE should care. Because if he doesn’t mount a decent defense and things do turn against him (even though it’s not even remotely justifiable), it could mean him not being able to run in 2024. And since he’s probably the only candidate that we have that people can and will get excited about, we better start caring.
All that said, I agree the entire thing is a total farce and that he did nothing wrong. But that doesn’t change the “kangaroo court” nature of this whole farce, and if they convict OR censure him under some twisted contortion of the 14th Amendment, we’d be looking at having..pretty much no-one..to run in 2024 that isn’t more of the same Uniparty McCain/Romney/etc mold..(Nikki, anyone? That’s who they’re already starting to push, God help us..)
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