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Trump’s attorneys have the perfect troll tactic for the impeachment: The unconstitutionality of the Senate trial is just one of the problems for the Democrats
American Thinker ^ | 02/01/2021 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 02/07/2021 10:31:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Count me as one who believes that the impeachment trial against former President Trump is an unconstitutional bill of attainder against a private citizen. Still, the proceeding is going to play out and it appears that Trump’s attorneys are going to fight hard. One of their plans in a case charging President Trump with inciting violence is to play for the Senate all the footage of Democrats inciting violence in 2020.

The problem for the Democrats going into the trial is one of evidence. The evidence against Trump isn’t just slim, it’s non-existent. The FBI has admitted that what happened at the Capitol was planned long before January 6. The planning did not involve Trump. There’s also evidence that the FBI knew about the plan against the Capitol in advance, but that the FBI, the Capitol Police, and the Democrats in charge of Congress did nothing with that information.

Uncontroverted evidence shows that Trump was still speaking when events began to play out at the Capitol. At that point, Trump had not yet asked his supporters at the vast Stop the Steal rally to peaceably go to the Capitol and cheer on Republican senators who were trying to get a hearing for election fraud claims. Frankly, Biden’s presidency would be a lot more stable, and Democrats a lot less paranoid, if they’d had that hearing and proven that there was no basis for the many fraud claims.

We also know now that Antifa was involved in the event and may even have been handing out weapons. Indeed, there were multiple non-Trump-supporters at the Capitol. This lends more credence to the theory that the whole rally was intended as a false flag operation to discredit Trump and his supporters.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; constitution; impeachment; senate
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It also appears that it’s fake news that protesters beat a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher. The police officer, may he rest in peace, certainly died, but it appears that he didn’t die at Trump supporters’ hands.
1 posted on 02/07/2021 10:31:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 02/07/2021 10:39:14 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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I believe that Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley,the two greatest experts on the US Constitution (and both Democrats),have said that this impeachment trial is thoroughly unconstitutional.
3 posted on 02/07/2021 10:39:18 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: SeekAndFind

I will be surprised if we learn that it WASN’T the FBI’s false flag plan, all
along,

just like they’ve been running the “Proud Boys” for years, apparently.

~Easy


4 posted on 02/07/2021 10:39:44 AM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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TRUMP’S LEGAL RESPONSE TO THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT IS SO VERY TRUMPIAN:

Trump’s impeachment defense brief lets Democrats know “they” themselves are required to prove that the election was not stolen.

The House’s articles of impeachment brought this on themselves:
<><> they did not merely open the door and allow Trump to prove there was election fraud.
<><> the articles accuse Trump of falsely claiming there was fraud in the election (thereby inciting protests).

THE REASONING GOES LIKE THIS: Can you cry “fire!” in a crowded theater, if in fact there is a fire?
<><> Trump’s prosecutors have to prove there wasn’t any fire.
<><> the impeachment managers are actually required to prove that Trump’s statements were false.
<><> The burden of proof is on the Democrats
<><> The hapless Dems have to prove that there was no fraud anywhere in the election.


5 posted on 02/07/2021 10:41:49 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: SeekAndFind

“The evidence against Trump isn’t just slim, it’s non-existent.”


If the President’s words on January 6th were in any way inflammatory, they would have been played to us on a continuous loop by the MSM even now a month later. Yet they haven’t been. I wonder why that is.


6 posted on 02/07/2021 10:45:48 AM PST by hanamizu
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just like they’ve been running the “Proud Boys” for years, apparently.


That was really something wasn’t it?


7 posted on 02/07/2021 10:49:06 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: SeekAndFind

Impeachment No. 1 wasn’t even able to charge a constitutionally impeachable offense.
So, here we go again.

One thing PDJT could do is just ignore it, not show up. Let the basturds “convict” him in abstentia, if they really want to accentuate their lawlessness.

(As this kind of extreme DNC Demo/Commie/Nazi harassment is unprecedented in recent American history, I really do not know what would be PDJT’s best approach regarding it. Knowing as little as I admittedly do from afar, I’d tend to just tell them to shove it up where the sun don’t shine, and go play a few rounds of golf, then clean up and rebuild the R party (or start a much better new one, again I do not know what is possible and which would be best.. but I’ll applaud whichever he choose to do. Our republic and our individual liberties are in grave danger without an effective and cleaned up political party ...)


8 posted on 02/07/2021 10:50:27 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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"...We also know now that Antifa was involved in the event"

That's a lie, Liz Cheney says so. And politicians don't lie, so there is no argument.

9 posted on 02/07/2021 10:52:54 AM PST by Yogafist
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To: SeekAndFind

The Dems moving towards a trial is senseless unless the only motivation is blind hatred and fear.


10 posted on 02/07/2021 10:54:54 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

Senators on both sides won’t allow him to produce any evidence


11 posted on 02/07/2021 10:59:25 AM PST by digger48
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Liz knows that the President in exile gave a dog whistle to the crowd, encouraging everyone to storm the Capitol and scream “Allahu Akbar” as they sliced and diced everyone in sight with machetes.
If only the crowd had picked up on this subliminal message, the event might have remained “mostly peaceful”.

Anyone else done dealing with STUPID?


12 posted on 02/07/2021 11:00:19 AM PST by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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To: Liz

Maybe, just maybe, some day the Democrats will learn they should not open a can of worms unless they are ready to live with the infestation.

Worms can be deucedly hard to eliminate entirely.

And not all of them turn into butterflies.


13 posted on 02/07/2021 11:00:59 AM PST by alloysteel (Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lots of fake everything so coming up with fake evidence is easy for the left to do. Like the Russia collusion there doesn’t have to be any actual evidence all they have to do is say there is and then convict.

The Constitution is irrelevant to them as well and only becomes relevant when it suits them.


14 posted on 02/07/2021 11:06:22 AM PST by maddog55 ((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
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To: volunbeer

I called years ago that the “proud boys” were fake controlled opposition

I took a lot of heat for that


15 posted on 02/07/2021 11:06:30 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Liz

Never happen.. Dems don’t have to prove anything, they just say it’s so and evidence be damned.

Logic and liberals don’t mix.


16 posted on 02/07/2021 11:08:44 AM PST by maddog55 ((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
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To: Liz

It’s going to be quite a show.


17 posted on 02/07/2021 11:08:46 AM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: SeekAndFind

From a previous comment -

Well, the Trump party could

1) Call out Harris for not being a Natural Born Citizen as defined in Sen. Resolution 511 (2007). Neither of her parents were ‘... American citizen parents’ at her birth.

2) Call out Obama for not being a Natural Born Citizen and remove the 44th President from history.

3) Have the FEC de-certify the Democrat National Committee as an on-going criminal enterprise for proposing unqualified candidates in past elections. Overnite all the (D)s become (I)s.

4) Challenge the seats of all members of Congress who voted to certify Gropin’ Joe and Kamalatoes and remove the ones elected in fraud-ridden elections.

5) Put up a ‘Help Wanted’ with the thought of firing and replacing 2/3 of all non-military federal workers. That would include the entire FBI, and the arrest of all CIA operatives found stateside.


18 posted on 02/07/2021 11:10:35 AM PST by RideForever (We are born to be tested ...)
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To: digger48
Senators on both sides won’t allow him to produce any evidence
19 posted on 02/07/2021 11:11:31 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Pathetic Pierre Delecto, the Pestiferous Potentate of Enchanted Chones.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“who believes that the impeachment trial against former President Trump is an unconstitutional bill of attainder against a private citizen”

It’s not a belief, it’s a fact


20 posted on 02/07/2021 11:13:09 AM PST by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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