Donald Trump’s impeachment defense begins—and is expected to end—today, following two days of argument for his guilt by the House impeachment managers. That prosecution was rock solid, tracing out how Trump set the stage to delegitimize an election he lost, then followed through when he did lose, insisting that the election must have been stolen. They showed that Trump himself chose the date of Jan. 6 for an event—which he promised “will be wild”—calling his supporters to Washington, D.C. on the day Congress met to certify the election results. They showed his repeated pressure and public attacks on Mike Pence, who he wanted to overturn the election. They showed how he encouraged the rally crowd outside the White House to be angry and to march on the Capitol. They showed how the mob received Trump’s instructions, saying it themselves in videos of the Capitol attack and in interviews and court documents since that they were doing what he had asked of them. They showed how terribly close to harm members of Congress—and in particular Pence—came. And they showed how Trump did not call the mob off throughout the attack.
Now his defense team begins, knowing that the vast majority of Republican senators do not care how guilty Trump is and do not care how ineffective the defense is. Expect it to be alternatively incompetent and dangerous and to show its contempt for the rule of law in its shoddiness and shortness.
It will be aired on major television news networks and streamed on their websites. Daily Kos will have continuing coverage.
Van der Veen is really shocked—shocked, mind you—that the House managers didn’t spend more time on a defense that he put forward which was nonsense.
I’m having trouble believing that this will actually be done in 3 hours, because I’m no sure Van der Veen will get through a paragraph by then.
Van der Veen now going to show another video. Let’s just hope it’s not another rerun.
And that hope has been dashed.
Van der Veen is really going to go down the road of the “First Amendment defense.” Which apparently requires a lot of reading things out slowly.
Since this is the weakest of all the points Trump’s team made, it’s fine if they want to run out the clock with this.
According to Van der Veen, “Wilson” is telling me about something the Senate cannot do. And I confess, I’ve already zoned out enough to not remember who Wilson is.
Apologizing again for mistaking Van der Veen for Castor. Have I mentioned before that I have prosopagnosia. Yup.
Van der Veen feels very bullied just because every constitutional scholar in the nation disagrees with his nonsense position.
Van der Veen insists this is read along time, as he continues to make an claim against an argument the House managers never made.
No playing large parts of Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, including things that have no connection to what van der Veen said he was trying to do. He did make sure to get Hunter Biden into the clip.
Honestly, the House managers could have run this same clip. Because it’s certainly not helping Trump.
So, what the Trump team really meant is they had 1 hour of material that they would use three times over.
Break. Everyone has 15 minutes to sober up from any drinking games before Castor comes on.
And if your drinking game involved the word “fight,” your family has 15 minutes to make arrangements.
Source: Daily Kos
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