Color Fox News host Chris Wallace underwhelmed.
During the Senate’s debate over Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) amendments to subpoena key witnesses and documents in the impeachment trial on Tuesday night, Wallace commented that Trump impeachment lawyers Pat Cipollone and Jay Sekulow were “making a mistake” by simply insisting that President Donald Trump did nothing wrong, with little substance in their arguments.
“They are basically saying, ‘There’s nothing to see here, all of this is bogus,’ while the House managers are taking every second of their one hour to make whatever case they want to make,” the Fox News host said, asserting that Cipollone and Sekulow had made little use of their allotted time.
“I don’t know why you wouldn’t take the time and every second you have to make an argument on behalf of the President,” he said. “If I were the President watching this, I would not be especially pleased.”
Watch Wallace below:
Fox News' Chris Wallace knocks Trump lawyers' performance in the Senate trial: "If I were the President watching this, I would not be especially pleased." pic.twitter.com/6ZG9REJG6K
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) January 22, 2020
They proclaim Trump’s innocence and martyrdom because they don’t have a factual argument to make that he did not do the things he did.
Well, I guess this answers the question as to how Fox viewers saw the hearings yesterday.
It’s one thing to defend a guilty client, it’s another to defend one who has publicly confessed to the crime.
If I were the Majority Leader watching this, I would not be especially pleased.
The slogan for every 2020 Dem Senate campaign is quickly becoming:
“You don’t have to live in Kentucky to vote against Mitch McConnell.”
Donate to his opponent. That’ll help a lot!