Several Republican senators on Tuesday panned former President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team, calling their arguments that his trial was unconstitutional rambling and incoherent.
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From TPM Reader AB …
I hadn’t fully realized what the change for me personally was until this afternoon while watching the video that the House Managers showed of the insurrection. It wasn’t seeing the terrorists storming the building, it was before that. It was listening to him speak as President on the Ellipse. At that moment I realized how he had affected me. I remembered how hard it was to listen to him speak without getting angry in a way that no other politician, Republican or Democrat, had done. Then after that moment seeing the video of the insurrection reminded me of the rage I felt on the sixth. I finally understand in just a small way, how people with PTSD are triggered. The feeling was visceral and frightening. Again, this was not just the video of the mob, it was also video of the President’s speech. I now realize the relief that I felt, while slow to materialize, is real, and way bigger than I thought it was.
The Senate approved of the constitutionality of impeaching former President Trump, with six Republicans joining all 50 Democrats in letting the Senate trial proceed.
When members of the U.S. Senate returned for the second half of Tuesday’s impeachment proceedings, they were probably not expecting a breakdown of the mechanics of a record player, an ode to the late Sen. Everett Dirksen’s (R-IL) voice and an elegy on what makes senators special.
Continue reading “The Trump Defense Kicks Off With One Hour Of Pure Confusion”
Rep. Jamie Raskin’s (D-MD) daughter and son-in-law barricaded themselves in an office as insurrectionists overtook the Capitol Building on Jan. 6.
It was just a day after the family buried Raskin’s middle child, the top House impeachment manager said Tuesday while speaking form the Senate floor, recalling his own experience of the violent day around which former President Trump’s impeachment revolves.
Continue reading “Raskin Shares Details Of Personal Tragedy That Unfolded Alongside Capitol Attack”
Much of the evidence Democrats are expected to use in their case to convict ex-President Trump of inciting an insurrection is relatively well known — seared in our minds for the past month by live footage and violent video and photo evidence of his role in encouraging a mob of his supporters to storm the Capitol.
Continue reading “Dems’ Opening Argument: Damning, Violent Video Evidence Of Trump’s Incitement”
Dominion Voting Systems hired private investigators and tracked the pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell across state lines after she evaded service of a massive lawsuit for “weeks,” attorneys for the voting machine company claimed in a Tuesday filing.
House managers have repeatedly name-checked Chuck Cooper, a powerhouse conservative attorney who penned a recent op-ed defending the constitutionality of impeaching Trump.
Democrats have plenty of compelling evidence against the former president — mostly because everything he’s being impeached for, he did out loud, very much in the open.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Today Isn’t Really About What Trump Did”
In their written reply to former President Trump’s defense brief ahead of his impeachment trial, the House impeachment managers pushed back on Trump’s attempts to suggest that his supporters would have ransacked the Capitol with or without Trump’s remarks that day.
Continue reading “House Rebuts Trump Defense: He Was ‘Singularly Responsible’ For Inciting Mob”
