Posted on 02/01/2021 4:39:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Advisers to former President Donald Trump are split on devising an impeachment defense, with Steve Bannon among those urging him to turn the Senate trial into a political bear fight by claiming once again that the election was stolen, according to a source familiar with discussions.
Trump’s legal team is scrambling to devise a strategy after he in recent days replaced five lawyers who were reluctant to relitigate what they saw as flimsy allegations of voter fraud.
While the Republican Party prefers arguing that the impeachment of a former president is unconstitutional, his allies fear Trump is gambling on a made-for-television, scorched-earth defense that risks defeat.
His advisers are fighting about whether to mount a conventional legal defense or use the Senate as a political platform.
“Bannon is the one wanting to tie it to a relitigation of the election,” said the source.
Bannon worked as White House chief strategist until falling out with Trump in 2017. However, last month it emerged that they had reconciled before Trump pardoned his former adviser, who was accused of conspiring to defraud donors to a fund to build a wall along the Mexican border, during his final hours in office.
Trump must respond to a charge of incitement of insurrection by midday on Tuesday, answering accusations that he was to blame for encouraging the deadly attack on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6. That single impeachment charge was passed in the House on a mostly party-line vote, with 10 Republicans joining Democrats to send the matter to the upper chamber.
Last week, all but five Republican senators voted to dismiss the trial as unconstitutional.
However, a tumultuous weekend brought a major shake-up of the legal team when the former president dismissed five lawyers because they were unwilling to argue that the election...
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An NPR/PBS poll shows 40% of Americans believe significant fraud caused Trump to lose the election.
NPR spun it as 60% don’t believe it but 40% is a stunning number in a national poll by a liberal outlet.
And it was not a straight party line response.
You can't relitigate something that has not been litigated.
What’s the point of trying to introduce the truth in a kangaroo court held by a bunch of lying scum? You wait and see. My prediction is that the republicans will turn on Trump. I don’t trust them at all! One thing you can be sure of. IT WON’T BE FAIR! OR FOR THAT MATTER “LEGITIMATE!”
Well, a few posters speculated that that could be what all of the military build up, in DC (that NO Republican, that I know of is saying a word about), is all about.
Yes...and, if NPR is reporting 40% of Americans....ALL Americans....believe significant fraud caused PDJT to lose.....then we know it is MUCH higher numbers, than that.
I agree. It’s ALL a sham. Why play along with it at all? All you end up doing is lend legitimacy to the whole farce. They are a bunch of lying, cheating scum. They are going to do what they’re going to do no matter the truth. To HADES with them!
The “TRUTH” means ABSOLUTELY nothing to these people. They kill babies and call it “freedom”.
mcconnell sent mccarthy to Mar-A-Lago to lie to Trump. mccarthy carried the message that the gop would hold firm and prevent the democrat impeachment vote. They are lying! They will stab Trump in the back. They will help to convict him, then help to bar him from holding any future public office and declare ANY of his supporters as “domestic terrorists” who can be persecuted under the “patriot act” where you get no trial, no lawyer, no phone call... They’ve been cooking this up for a long time people. Believe me! These people involved in the coup are feeling their oats and they are not done! First, they are scared to death of a “counter-coup” and will do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to squash it. At the same time they are going to run amok doing all the the things they couldn’t because of the “rules”, “laws”, “norms”, “morals”...
Re Litigate?!? They never litigated it!!!
To this day not one court to my knowledge has actually heard any evidence..
Simply refused to hear the cases.
🐿 This is shrewd, Big Picture, and selfless.
Trump knows that the election system getting cleaned up is more important than him or his family.
Selfless and brave.
Tricky though. Needs to outsmart the entire Swamp! Even Ted Cruz went at him.
I tweeted to Cruz to drink from Georgia’s mythic leaking water main.
Teump could retort by saying,”Well I don’t see the Chief Justice. Goodbye, lunatics. Quit obsessing over me.”
🐿 A few judges didxhear evidence. Yep, we won those trials. Just under-reported. Jovan Pulitzer won a case. But the ballots were illegally hauled to a shredder. The FBI seized some and then the FBI illegally shredded them too.
“An unconstitutional impeachment/conviction means nothing.”
Indeed
This is another lame attempt by the dem scum to separate Trump from his base.
It will blow up in their faces.
“They are a fraudulent unelected criminal coup with a kangaroo court, they are null and void”
Truly
When the executive branch passed into the hands of a fraudulent president the legislative and judicial branches lost their constitutional authority as well.
You have to have all three to have a constitutionally mandated government - this one is illegit and treasonous.
This question will only be resolved by force of arms.
Where I had a really, really BAD feeling was Donald practically raging at Joe's bald-faced lies during the debate that I watched, while Joe just stayed quiet with a look-away smile as Donald practically choked and threw himself about with a wrathful look on his face.
Not a pretty picture. Donald really damaged his image through lack of control though telling the truth, while Joe kept a reserved, smiling, disdainful composure while receiving Donald's earned rebuke for his lies.
This scene really hurt Donald's public image in the minds of many onlookers. I said to myself, "Well, there it goes!" And it turned out, I was right on that.
Don’t “push the claims”; just present the evidence.
If that is the case, Trump should buy full page ads and half-hour radio and TV slots from whoever is willing to sell them, in which he presents the evidence and conclusions.
Or "reproductive rights". Like commies call their countries "Peoples' Republics".
Love it. You are right, of course.
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