To make the case for his conviction, the House impeachment managers argued that former President Trump has shown no remorse for driving his supporters to violence with his claims that the election was stolen. The defense Trump’s attorney put forward proved that he sees nothing wrong with how he poisoned the minds of his base.
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The Lincoln Project wasn’t just another anti-Trump Super PAC.
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Is the Senate weighing an impeachment of Donald Trump or an impeachment of the team of House managers presenting the case against him?
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The riot squad defending the embattled entrance to the west side of the U.S. Capitol was surrounded by violence. Rioters had clambered up the scaffolding by the stage erected for the inauguration of President Joseph Biden. They hurled everything they could get their hands on at the cops beneath: rebar, plywood, power tools, even cans of food they had frozen for extra damage.
Even though the last two days of the impeachment trial have included new information about the fact that former President Trump put his veep in harms way, Vice President Mike Pence is standing by his man.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Loyal (Publicly, At Least) Until The Bitter End”
From the start of the Trump defense team’s presentation Friday, the former president’s lawyers hit senators hard with a wave of false equivalencies and bogus claims that Donald Trump, in fact, was the messenger of peace seeking to calm America’s political waters from the turmoil created by violent Democrats.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (LA) — one of just a few Republican senators who has signaled he has not predetermined how he will vote on Trump’s fate in the Senate’s impeachment trial — said Thursday that wants Trump’s lawyers to explain the former president’s “inaction” to calls for support from law enforcement during the Capitol riot.
The impeachment defense attorneys “will do everything and anything they can do to distract from President Trump’s actual behavior before the riot, during the riot, and in the immediate aftermath of that riot,” an aide to the House impeachment managers warned reporters Friday.
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Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is still running to former President Donald Trump’s side to advance false information around how Trump handled the deadly Capitol riot that unfolded under his command.
Three Republican senators met with the legal defense team for former President Donald Trump in advance of the lawyers’ rebuttal of the charge that the ex-president incited an insurrection on the Capitol last month, according to multiple reports.
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