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.
Tantrum coming in 3…2…1 The President and the Republican party lose again. Midnight Mitch can smirk all he wants, he and his party are going down. ETTD can not be said enough.
Smug and complacent WH lawyers figured the case in the Republican controlled Senate was in the bag…no need to bother preparing a robust defense…;just get it over as quickly as possible. Schiff and his team demonstrated that they did the homework, and are prepared to present a thorough prosecution utilizing all of their alloted time… Maybe that preparation will not be enough to overcome partisanship, but I can easily believe Sen Klobuchar when she said that several of her Republican colleagues were looking down at their shoes as if embarrassed at several points during yesterdays arguments.
He’s not wrong, but they don’t have a factual argument to make, so all they can resort to is Trumpian bluster and bullshit. And since Trump no doubt saw this, I look forward to him demoting the current legal team and putting in Judge Jeanine and America’s favorite lawyer/dentist Orly Taitz as lead counsels. They couldn’t do any worse.
With no facts to support their case, Trump’s lawyers are also constrained by the comportment rules in an impeachment trial. Unlike Nunes, Jordan, et. al., they’re not allowed the same level of yelling and arm-waving histrionics. Trump will be pissed that they had to use their inside voices, and Faux will lose hours of red meat footage.
If I were Trump, I’d be so mad I’d say, ‘‘the hell with national security! Pompeo, Mulvaney, Barr, get your asses up to Capitol Hill and testify. Read the transcript into the trial record. IT WAS A PERFECT CALL!’’
