As if we needed more evidence after yesterday’s performance that Trump’s hodge-podge legal defense wasn’t going great, this morning we learned that one of his own lawyers sued him last year.
And he sued him over the very issue that he will be defending the ex-president against.
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Georgia prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation of the Jan. 2 phone call in which President Trump tried to overturn election results in the state, the New York Times reports.
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The House impeachment managers plan to play never-before-seen video footage of the Capitol attack Wednesday, according to a senior aide to the team. The video, the aide said, would provide “new insight into both the extreme violence” and “the threat that it could have led to further violence and death.”
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An unexpected reversal from Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (LA) who voted in favor of the constitutionality of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment on Tuesday, drew ire from the Louisiana Republican Party who quickly issued a statement to criticize the move.
Michigan state Senate Leader Mike Shirkey (R) half-apologized on Tuesday night after a viral video showed him falsely claiming that the violent insurrection ex-President Donald Trump unleashed upon the Capitol on January 6 was not carried out by the former president’s supporters.
Former President Donald Trump was irate over his impeachment defense lawyer Bruce Castor’s opening argument on the Senate floor Tuesday, according to multiple reports.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), despite having voted on Tuesday that the impeachment trial of ex-President Donald Trump was unconstitutional, has privately indicated that he hasn’t decided yet whether he’ll convict the former president over his incitement of last month’s violent siege of the Capitol, according to Bloomberg.
If you’re a regular TPM Reader the topic of militias and rightist paramilitaries, which have been in the news since January 6th, is nothing new to you. Many of us have been watching this development going back at least 25 years. The roots of the phenomenon of course go back decades further. It has been a hallmark of our coverage for twenty years that ‘fringe’ right wing groups are much more central to what drives national politics than establishment reportage allows. Today we see that reality come to the fore in a newly visible way as state Republican parties especially cultivate highly armed paramilitaries as auxiliaries to their work in electoral politics.
Former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial kicked off on Tuesday afternoon, with House managers and his defense team presenting arguments on whether he can face conviction for his role stirring up the Jan. 6 Capitol mob after leaving office. Republicans have coalesced around the idea — disputed by many constitutional scholars — that a former president cannot be impeached.
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Trump’s impeachment lawyers keep claiming that disqualifying Trump from future office would “disenfranchise” the 74 million Americans who voted for him in 2020. But what about the 82 million Americans whose votes Trump sought to disenfranchise with his effort to reverse the 2020 results?
