I think she learned a lesson.
Both of the defense lawyers speak fluent Palin.
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It sounds like Chiselin’ Trump would have been better served to have picked his lawyers from the DC yellow pages.
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His grandchildren are all in their fifties or older.
“Pepper” is an excellent song, but only a minor hit from a quarter century ago. I expect he’s hanging on in some Travis County apartment, a la Roky Erickson. Very much hope that Gibby is better off than that!
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Guess what I learned at school today.
If Sherman had done the job right, most of these nitwits wouldn’t even exist today.
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“The vote was a rigged!”
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And it’s not just Trump’s instruction on and about the 6th. The Rs clearly want to focus on Trump’s words that day and ignore five+ years of inciting violence about all kinds of stuff. (Urging people at his rallys to beat up hecklers, etc.) The House managers need to tell that story. Trump has continually encouraged violence ALL ALONG. And Trump spent most of his term talking up The Big Lie about how he was robbed (and still won) in 2016, and about his “landslide victory” being stolen before and after he lost by >7M legitimate votes in 2020. That’s what this is about. His actions and verbal spew on 1/6/2021 should be just the cherry on top of the evidence offered.
I posted sometime back that there are five elements that need to be presented:
- “He’s always promoted violence”,
- “The Big Lie”,
- “It will be wild”–specific incitement and the facts of what Trump and his enablers did to encourage what happened on 1/6 (sadly, the Senate trial is way out in front of the publically exposed legal investigation of this aspect of the story),
- “American Carnage”–what happened at the Capitol on 1/6, and
- “We did it because he asked us to”–the witness members of the mob bore as to why they went there and did what they did.
I’m not even sure they need human witnesses. You could tell every piece of this story from video, audio, and Tweet documentation starring Donald J. Trump, with a star-studded supporting cast of enablers and MAGATs.
It won’t get 67 votes to convict. Nothing would. But it should be the first draft of a comprehensive history of the seditious incitement of insurrection by Donald J. Trump, twice-impeached 45th President of The United States.
A whole lot longer than that. Trump talked all through the campaign about how Biden could only win by cheating. He never stopped talking about supposed perfidy of his opponent and all of her supporters/voters in 2016 and how he was robbed even when he won. They’ve been selling “stop the steal” BS contiuously since the middle of the 2016 campaign.
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Nah, he got them from the Whole Earth catalog.
Made out of hemp by the indigenous people of wherever. Very sustainable.
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Countdown to Qanon-thinkers calling these two so-called lawyers part of the “Deep State” in 3…2…
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This should be easy to reduce to ashes. We teach 3rd graders that “free speech” doesn’t include yelling fire in a crowded theater. And the 1st Amendment is about prior restraint by the government. The government did nothing to restrain his speech.
Even this proceeding is not trying to restrain his speech–it’s about consequences for the political equivalent of “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
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Cassidy expressed his dismay with the meandering arguments of Trump’s legal team.
“It was disorganized, random. They talked about many things but they didn’t talk about the issue at hand,” Cassidy told reporters. “If I’m an impartial juror and I’m trying to make a decision based on the facts as presented on this issue, then the House managers did a much better job.”
Cassidy then paused before saying, “I mean, obviously I’m not trying to make a decision based on facts, so it’s OK, but if I were, …”
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Just wait. You’re about to be blinded with science.
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Don’t mean to knit pick but…
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Was that a Jewish Laser Printer?
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On key, no less.
We made our Lit Crit prof cry when we unanimously dissed a Longfellow poem. She thought the poem in question was Great Poetry; we thought it was vapid.
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If I told you, I’d then have to kill both you and myself. Rules, ya know.
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