Val Demings rocked her final statement when she said, “Innocent people don’t try to hide every document and witness, especially those that would clear them. That’s what guilty people do.” She also reminded everyone that Vice President Pence knew what was happening, which of course, is the reason Republicans voted against additional evidence: They want …
What’s being exposed right now is the depth of corruption in the Republican Party. Therefore, one of the messages deployed by the bots and trolls is that all parties are corrupt. The Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans. Like this: This is standard Russian propaganda. Timothy Snyder explains that Putin doesn’t deny corruption …
The verdict is in: The Senate will refuse to hear witnesses or request documentary evidence. It’s worth pointing out that the party that just voted to exclude witnesses from the Senate Trial of Donald J. Trump is the party that forced Monica Lewinsky to testify via video during the Senate trial about intensely embarrassing personal …
How you felt about yesterday’s defense presentation depends entirely on how you feel about Newt Gingrich’s “win at any cost” advice to the Republican Party. People who think the Republicans should win at any cost were cheering for the outrageous, circular arguments. They believed each one landed a punch. People who think the idea is …
I had the Bogus Defense Bingo card ready for tomorrow, when the news about Bolton broke, which raises the question: Will this change the defense strategy? Trump told Bolton in August he wanted to hold the security assistance until Ukraine officials helped with investigations in to the Bidens. There you go, Senate Republicans: another first …
After two hours, the card looked like this: Some people heard #9, which I easily could have missed because I listened as I was doing other things, and I took a few quick breaks. Rumor was that the defense spoke for only two hours because they were irritated that their day fell on a Saturday, …
If the Trump Defense Trial Brief is any indication, we will be hearing lot of bogus defenses and crazy conspiracy theories. I wanted a way to get through it without wanting to poke my eyeballs with a fork. So I came up with an idea: Bogus Defense Bingo here. I can think of only one …
We start with House Manager Jerrold Nadler. Nadler killed it today with this summing up: “A president who abuses his power in order to kneecap a political opponent and spread Russian propaganda conspiracy theories, or even worse, compel a foreign nation to interfere in our election, is a president who attacks the very foundation of …
It was reported this morning that McConnell was trying to rally his fellow Republican senators to exclude witnesses and documents: If so, it seems to me that McConnell is making a political calculation, essentially asking which would be more devastating for the Republicans: more facts coming out through witness testimony, or blocking the witnesses. McConnell …
What happened today, in a nutshell: McConnell’s resolution set out this process: House Managers have 24 hours to present their case Trump’s defense has 24 hours to rebut Senators have 16 hours to ask questions. Then the Senators vote on whether to call witnesses and subpoena documents Initially, the resolution required the 24 hour presentations …
