Posted on 02/01/2021 9:24:42 AM PST by karpov
Even as a mere Florida man, former President Donald Trump sure looks as if he's trying to knife the Republican Party.
On Saturday morning, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the House's resident anti-Semitic QAnon conspiracy theorist, boasted that she had shared a call with the supportive former president. By evening, news emerged that Trump's legal team had resigned barely 48 hours before his first response to the article of impeachment is due and a little more than a week before the Senate trial begins. The reason: Trump wants to present the one defense that would render it political suicide to acquit him.
Trump could argue that despite inviting his fans to Washington, D.C., during a pandemic and telling them he would lead them to the Capitol to "stop the steal," his aside that they ought to do so "peacefully and patriotically" shows he was not trying to incite violence. As a matter of process, he could also argue that the trial itself is illegitimate because he is now out of office — a position that 45 out of 50 Republican senators agree on. Either of these arguments might be weak, but both are at least something.
But no. Instead, to defend himself from the charge that he incited an insurrection at the Capitol, Trump reportedly wants to claim the election really was stolen from him. As one may notice, this is not a defense against incitement but rather a justification for it.
The Republican Party has carefully avoided defending Trump on the merits of his actions — even Trump's most loyal supporters. Sen. Rand Paul did him a big favor by forcing a vote on the constitutionality of a post-presidential impeachment trial. That has essentially locked 45 senators into acquittal on constitutional grounds.
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I would suggest telegraphing this will throw off the Senate for what might be the actual defense approach.
The thought of DJT knifing the Republican party makes me happy.
“Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the House’s resident anti-Semitic...”
And you know that how?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3909842/posts
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/five-obvious-acts-fraud-2020-election/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwHa1pfyJjc
And you know that, how?
Why is the truth a ridiculous defense?
You are correct.
Written by a never-Trumper?
Actually airing the complaints that were were all upset over is a problem ?!?
Really !
Trump’s impeachment defense is basically to say, “I’m guilty, but the Republicans are too scared of me to vote that way. Ha Ha Ha.” And he’s right.
Well let’s hope Trump does knife the GOP.
Next someone will be saying the republican party
didn’t kill itself...
They miss the bigger point.
Trump isn’t trying to knife the GOP. That may or may not be the side effect, but clearly he must really 100% believe the steal really happened if he is going to use that as his defense. That’s big. It either means he is nuts, or that he is right, and either way, he is so sure he is right that he is willing to destroy himself to convey that message.
Perhaps a ‘seminar caller/writer’ as Rush always calls them.
The party is solidly behind President Trump
Liz C.‘s popularity being a case in point.
Rand’s already shown the impeachment is unConstitutional crap.
I wonder if the Washington Examiner has ever referred to a Dhimmicrat as an anti-Semitic Nation of Islam follower.
Trump is not guilty of anything you loser...
Trump can offer evidence that the election was stole and prove he didn’t incite insurrection. They are not mutually exclusive
Speaking of laser weapons:
And then bust a few caps in it to make sure.
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