In Impeachment Response, Trump Lawyers Say No Place For ‘Political Hatred’

The impeachment team for former President Donald Trump filed its response to the House’s article Tuesday, claiming that Trump is being deprived of his rights and that the whole exercise is unconstitutional anyway. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1357969

Would you expect any less from the Twice Impeached Former President of the Unites States?

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Nixon was a President who became a criminal. Trump is a criminal who became President.

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In a separate filing, Trump’s new legal team also calls Newton’s law of universal gravitation a false narrative.

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Only the best lawyers for the Orange Lump! It takes an attorney with no self-regard or dignity to represent for the Dumpster Fire who ain’t gonna pay him/her.

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Political hatred - I don’t know, it may have a place when the person it’s directed at tried to overthrow the government of the United States from his position as president.

That’s a pretty legit thing to hate.

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Translation: The House’s impeachment filing is fake.

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These attorneys whipped this up in less than two days, and it shows.

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Translation- Yes I did it but you can’t do anything about it.

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“Trump lawyers claim wholesale unconstitutionality, in lockstep with Senate Republicans.”

You misspelled “goosestep”.

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“[The House] chose to make the Article as broad as possible intentionally in the hope that some Senators might agree with parts, and other Senators agree with other parts, but that when these groups of senators were added together, the House might achieve the appearance of two thirds in agreement, when those two thirds of members, in reality, did not concur on the same allegations interwoven into an over-broad article designed for just such a purpose,” they wrote.

“The charge that my client robbed the bank is overly broad. Some jurors might agree that my client used a gun to rob the bank, while other jurors might disagree with that, but believe that my client used a stick of dynamite to rob the bank.”

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Nixon was a criminal, his Checkers speech back on September 23, 1952 was in defense of his accepting illegal gifts.

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Yeah - typos and misspellings.

SMDH

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It’s weak, to be sure…but it’s directed to people whose excuse for failing Physics is, “I was sick that day…”

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" 3. They accuse the House of making the article as “broad as possible.”

And don’t forget to protest that the prosecutors and the impeachment observers are also witnesses.

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Actually, courts have ruled on a bunch of the allegations trump made about election fraud. False. Other allegations were withdrawn by trump’s lawyers when the court reminded them they were bound to not knowingly make false claims.

And that, of course, is before the “let’s march on the capital and intimidate members of congress into throwing the election my way.”

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I have to admit, I’m kind of attracted to that argument, too.

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Rip that band-aid off Republican Senators and convict the ex-president already!

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Well YEAH…‘BE BEST’ amirite???

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The problem isn’t that they have a band-aid on the wound, it’s that the wound is gangrenous and they keep insisting that there is no wound and they don’t smell anything rotting.

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