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Trump might knife the GOP with his lunatic impeachment defense
Washington Examiner ^ | February 1, 2021 | Tiana Lowe

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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KEYWORDS: impeach; tianalowe; trump; trumpimpeachtrial
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To: IgnorerOfLiberals

Are you against day drinking or against day drinking and the making silly posts on FR? :)


121 posted on 02/01/2021 11:27:02 AM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: karpov

like in the back...like Pence...GO P?


122 posted on 02/01/2021 11:35:14 AM PST by PGalt (confirmed: past peak civilization)
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To: karpov

Joseph Goebbels: On the “Big Lie”

““If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.””

I know everybody knows this, BUT this is EXACTLY what the Demoncrats (NAZIS) and the news media (NAZIS) are doing.

And worse, they are saying Trump is the one doing it.

I Googled “Joseph Goebbels the Big Lie” and almost all of the responses were about TRUMP!

Just Trump, Trump and Goebbels, but not Hitler or Nazis. Except to suggest TRUMP is a Nazi.

Where is Congressman Joe Wilson when you need him? Truth to power, “LIAR!”.

Trump is a Nazi... LIAR!

Hawley is a Nazi... LIAR!

Trump lied about the election being stolen... LIAR!

Trump incited the riot at the Capitol... LIAR!

There was no fraud in the election... LIAR!

The courts have dismissed all of Trump’s lawsuits because he had no evidence... LIAR!

They HAD TO stop counting ballots because of a “water main break”... LIAR!

Biden got more Black votes than Obama... LIAR!

Biden is the legitimate President... LIAR!


123 posted on 02/01/2021 11:42:46 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: babble-on
"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."

Head on back to the Democrat sites where you belong.

124 posted on 02/01/2021 11:48:57 AM PST by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: Eagle of Liberty

“Not being a jerk here, but can you copy/paste a link or two here of a case that actually went to trial or allowed witnesses to be presented?”

Not even one.

That’s why State election law must be reformed, and people need to ensure they get the right State AG.

Not a single state found sufficient evidence to go to trial.


125 posted on 02/01/2021 12:11:17 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: karpov

“Trump wants to present the one defense that would render it political suicide to acquit him.”

This makes no sense.


126 posted on 02/01/2021 12:12:11 PM PST by a real Sheila (Eff the Left)
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To: karpov

What is the Washington Examiner?


127 posted on 02/01/2021 12:15:10 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: JerryBlackwell

Mostly against silly incoherent posts.


128 posted on 02/01/2021 12:21:25 PM PST by IgnorerOfLiberals
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What happened to ‘KARPOV’ who posted this topic?

Another example of the WRONG PEOPLE at this site...
jmo...

129 posted on 02/01/2021 12:21:46 PM PST by haircutter
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To: karpov

I doubt Trump cares about his defense. He likely plans to put irrefutable evidence of the election steal in front of the public. Then watch to see if the MSM tries to black it out.


130 posted on 02/01/2021 1:10:52 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: karpov

“Sources say.” “Reportedly”

But personally. I hope he manages to take the whole den of vipers down while the reddit guys crash the stock market. Expose the lies and fraud.


131 posted on 02/01/2021 1:11:53 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes. )
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To: Mariner

Well, at least there were glimmers of hope for a moment. Pennsylvania lower court judge Patricia McCullough tried until she was overrulled.

The judge in Antrim County MI allowed for the forensic audit there.

In Wisconsin, a court said that 200,000 mail-in ballots could be contested since COVID cannot be used as a reason for being indefinitely confined. Not sure how those challenges went? Didn’t read much more on this....

The state legislature in AZ is still moving forward with their forensic audit.

The state legislature in GA tried to get all the ballots from Fulton County, but never got them to my knowledge (read that most if not all have been shredded).

No evidence was ever heard in Nevada despite the one attorney being able to rattle off almost 100,000 ballots right off the bat that could have been challenged.


132 posted on 02/01/2021 1:13:00 PM PST by Eagle of Liberty
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To: Veggie Todd

Suicide Clinton style.


133 posted on 02/01/2021 1:14:59 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes. )
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To: hanamizu
I thought that position was taken by Ilhan Omar. Was I misinformed?

Nope. They author is lying as usual.

Greene said something about the Rothschild's I believe and since they are Jewish then she is ”anti-Semitic”.

Sort of like calling out Soros the Nazi makes you ”anti-Semitic” but calling for the death of Israel does not.

It is a DemonRAT thing. Don't try to understand it.

134 posted on 02/01/2021 1:19:45 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: karpov
It's all a stupid joke. Their only remedy is removal, so the exercise is pointless idiocy. Act accordingly.


135 posted on 02/01/2021 1:21:08 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: karpov
"...sure looks as if he's trying to knife the Republican Party."

I wouldn't blame the man if he never lifted a finger to help his country after four years going on apparently five more years of being eviscerated 24/7 by people in his own party.

Give it a rest......

136 posted on 02/01/2021 1:22:18 PM PST by yoe (President Trump works for We The People - not China as Biden has and will.)
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To: CJ Wolf

The actual steal, beyond the usual and customary Dem vote fraud, was the supression of the Biden laptop by Big Tech. Enough Dems would have switched their votes to give Trump a comfortable win even the typical Dem vote fraud.


137 posted on 02/01/2021 2:05:08 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: IgnorerOfLiberals

“Mostly against silly incoherent posts.”

ok just checking


138 posted on 02/01/2021 3:17:43 PM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: z3n

https://hereistheevidence.com


139 posted on 02/01/2021 3:21:21 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: JonPreston
The thought of DJT knifing the Republican party makes me happy.

Ditto.

But the Republican Party is already dead by suicide, so...

140 posted on 02/01/2021 3:29:07 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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