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 ...
They resigned because President Trump wanted a political defense and they just wanted a quick acquittal.....
An acquittal was guaranteed thanks to Senator Paul......
Dems can’t risk a Senate trial on national TV where Trump’s team will expose the fraudulent election chapter and verse in exquisite detail, name names, and connect the dots. The American people’s reaction to the Swamp’s revenge on Trump would result in tar and feathers if not outright firing squads.
Consequently, once Trump calls their bluff, Dems, commies, grifters, MSM liars and turncoats will suddenly vamoose overnight to non-extradition nations. Trust Trump, he knows what he’s doing.
Ping to RideForever’s post:
RideForever wrote:
“There is the election fraud that the Senate confirmed Harris which required a Natural Born Citizen status. The definition includes the observance of Senate Resolution 511 (2007) stating McCain was a Natural Born Citizen because he was ‘born of American citizen parents on a US Military base’.
Harris is an unnatural born citizen of parents of differing foreign jurisdictions who were subject thereto evidenced by their passports to visit here. Therefore she cannot serve as President or Vice President. Therefore the election results are a fraud.”
What makes Trump think the Senate will allow it?
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My concern from Day 1. The Dems only need one GOP defector (are you listening Mitt) to deny Trump the right to admit any witnesses or evidence of fraud.
The knives are out for Congresswoman Greene......
Neither side can control her and she seems hell-bent to expose every misstep by either side......
No, she’s not an anti-semite.....
GOP deserves to get knifed for its cowardice
“Trump’s impeachment defense lawyers resigned because they thought his defense strategy was ridiculous.”
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First: President Trump doesn’t need a defense, the impeachment is unconstitutional.
Second: Where do his defense attorneys, themselves, state your statement? All I see is lying CNN and other Leftists said...
They didn’t resign because they think his strategy is ridiculous - they resigned because they were Lindsey Graham’s RINO plants - who want President Trump to to shut up about the election being stolen.
President Trump is rightfully ignoring their advice - he is going to use the platform to tell the American people the truth about what happened - that’s why they “resigned”.
“Trump might knife the GOP with his lunatic impeachment defense”
Since most of the alleged Republicans in the DC Swamp knifed him in the back, turnabout is fair play,=.
false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or Federal officials.
Trump wants to provide a mountain of evidence that these were not false claims. The GOPe would rather not go there. The courts have been stonewalling the presentation of evidence. Social media will not allow any mention of election fraud. This may be Trump's best venue to educate the American people about the widespread fraud and how it affected the election results. He was correct to remove the first legal team.
Trump’s impeachment defense lawyers resigned because they thought his defense strategy was ridiculous.
Trump’s GOP establishment stooge lawyers quit because he won’t follow China Mitch’s impeachment show trial script. It should come as absolutely no surprise the GOP Senate does not want the subject of the stolen election broached because they certified it. The GOP is desperate to put the stolen election in the rear view mirror and get Trump voters back on the GOP plantation.
I'm doing my part. They are dead to me.
“...and get Trump voters back on the GOP plantation.”
Too late. Ain’t never happening.
Absolutely correct.
The children of foreigners are themselves born foreigners, even if born here.
The founders specified natural born citizen as the purest form of citizenship which would exclude the children of foreigners as they are born with divided citizenship, loyalty and allegiance.
Tiana Lowe. Never heard of her
Stories I read didn’t give a reason for his lawyers bailing
Nobody - even president Trump - could hurt the damned corruptoidal GOP-e more than it had already hurt itself. It is dead as a political
Party. Suicide by lying and enabling the DemoNaziCommie election theft. Dead and stinking. Like a cow turd. We will never give them any more support whatsoever. Not one vote sbd not one more penny
> Trump wanted to have the election fraud exposed, since no one would cover it. He has the goods. <
I really want to believe that. But it it were so, Trump should have called a presidential press conference before the new year. Lay it all out. Show the data. Bring witnesses forward.
And I must emphasize “presidential press conference”. One held at the White House. A speech anywhere else just wouldn’t get the coverage. And tweets, forget about them. Only a small percentage of Americans follow tweets.
As a side note, I am convinced that this election was stolen. Why Trump didn’t use the bully pulpit more is beyond me. But I guess he had his reasons.
The Washington Examiner needs to be examined for drug use....
Stealing this.... :D
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