The Impeachment of President Donald J Trump

[Barrister]

I know you are being flip about the Secretary of Agriculture, but you also don't have approvals for some important posts like the Attorney General, Commerce, Energy, the EPA, Education, Health and Human Services (while we are in a pandemic), etc.

[The Minsky Moment]

The Trump defense team has convinced me - we should impeach Elizabeth Warren for unleashing Rachel Maddow on the Capitol Building.

[crazy canuck]

What aboutism in its full Trumpist glory

[The Minsky Moment]

"This is not whataboutism"

"But what about ... ?  (Cues highlight reel)

[crazy canuck]

"This is not whataboutism"

"But what about ... ?  (Cues highlight reel)

[crazy canuck]

Wow, Trump's lawyer just made the trial about his own liability to practice for making a frivolous argument.

[The Minsky Moment]

The Weakest Link is now implicating his client in conspiracy.

[crazy canuck]

Yi will be happy that the defence has raised the argument about Georgia. 

"Find, means a concern about the drop in ballot rejection rates".  So find meant, find votes that can be rejected.

I am beginning to understand why the first set of lawyers withdrew.

edit:  not sure why he thinks reading damning evidence of the former President's statements into the record is helping his client.  There must be a right wing echo chamber somewhere that thinks those comments are fine.

[The Minsky Moment]

The ballot rejection numbers cited are also false.
Ballots rejected in GA for inaccurate signatures:
2016: 0.24%
2018: 0.15%
2020: 0.15%

[crazy canuck]

Well there it is, you cannot impeach a President for inciting a riot because cancel culture.

[The Minsky Moment]

Yi got his way though - the Georgia election steal attempt got into evidence - through the defense

[alfred russel]

Obviously had Trump overturned Georgia somehow he still would have lost the election.

Why I think Trump focused on Georgia:

-Republicans control everything in the state, so he could theoretically pressure the state to bend to his will. Plus in a contested state like Georgia, for elected republicans to alienate Trump fans is presumably fatal.
-The Senate runoffs allowed him to get the two republican senators on his side.

Both of those play incredibly poorly to Senate republicans, many of whom seem to blame him for losing the two senate seats because of his Georgia nonsense. Which of course cost them two colleagues and their control of the senate.

Apart from the incredible dumbness of alleging election fraud in Georgia, it seems the worst possible topic for the defense to approach.

[DGuller]

Yeah, the jury is not going to like that.

[alfred russel]

Shortly before the Georgia runoffs Trump came down for a rally with the senate republicans. Which seemed like a massive peace offering for the Georgia republican party he seemed to be going to war with.

But there is a story out that just before the rally he told Loeffler that either she support his movement to reject the electoral votes or he would go out on stage and end any chance she had to win the election.

Which is a pretty gangster move and in the end Loeffler decided to trade her soul for Trump's support that didn't even save her seat so no tears for her, but I imagine that her old colleagues don't feel the way I do.

[The Brain]

Is there likely to be a conviction? As long as there isn't the defense was good enough.