Trump Impeachment Lawyer Argues Trial Shouldn’t Include Vids Of Deadly Siege Ex-POTUS Incited

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: President Donald Trump is seen on a screen as his supporters cheer during a rally on the National Mall on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Donald Trump
President Donald Trump speaks to his supporters at his “Stop the Steal” rally on the National Mall on January 6, 2021 right before the insurrection. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
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David Schoen, one of the impeachment lawyers ex-President Donald Trump hired at the last minute, on Monday night protested against Democrats’ plan to show videos of the pro-Trump mob’s deadly storming of the Capitol at the Senate impeachment trial next week.

“Does this country really need to see videotapes?” Schoen asked during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. “We know now apparently that [Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)] and the other managers intend to show videotapes of the riots, people calling in, people being hurt, police officers talking…Why does the country need that now?”

The lawyer then claimed that the violent insurrection on January 6 “has nothing to do with” Trump, despite the former president riling up his supporters that day (and months beforehand) with lies claiming the election was “stolen” from him, telling them to walk to the Capitol and “show strength,” then refusing to condemn the attack as it was erupting.

“The country doesn’t need to just watch videos of riots and unrest. We need to heal now. We need to move forward,” Schoen said on Monday, invoking Republicans’ go-to deflection when confronted with Trump’s incitement of the siege.

He is one of two lawyers Trump managed to corral at the 11th hour after his first legal team ditched him over the ex-president’s insistence that they peddle his false claims about election fraud as their defense strategy at the trial, according to CNN. The attorneys also jumped ship over Trump’s refusal to agree to their price tag, Axios reports.

Schoen served as infamous Trump ally Roger Stone’s attorney when Stone was convicted for obstruction and lying to Congress before Trump pardoned him on his way out of the White House.

The attorney was also slated to represent accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein before the disgraced billionaire’s alleged suicide.

Watch Schoen below:

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  1. Like asserting very strongly that the moon is made of green cheese and then arguing that we shouldn’t get to look at all the rocks the astronauts brought back.

  2. …Trial Shouldn’t Include Vids Of Deadly Siege Ex-POTUS Incited

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAaaaaaahahaaaaaaaaaaa!!

    :joy: :joy: :joy:

  3. “The country doesn’t need to just watch videos of riots and unrest. We need to heal now. We need to move forward,” Schoen said on Monday

    Doctors employ a similar approach when refusing to look at patient x-rays.

  4. Great defense.

    If we don’t show videos and people dying then we can simply argue it didn’t happen.

    Magical thinking is not a legal argument. You would think Trump lawyers would have figured that out by now.

  5. Did someone tell this ambulance-chaser that the impeachment charge is “incitement to riot”?

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