Lawyers for former president Donald Trump are planning to begin and wrap up their defense in his impeachment trial in less than a day, using far fewer than their allotted argument hours.
South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds said he thinks most senators “would like to have this completed by Saturday.”House Democratic prosecutors began their second day of arguments in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial by offering multiple examples of how Trump had cheered on or promoted acts of violence among his supporters in the years leading up to the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6.
Raskin said Jan. 6 “was not some unexpected, radical break from his normal law-abiding and peaceful disposition.” Biden and his aides generally have avoided weighing in on the trial and whether the former president should be convicted.
_Politics FACTS: On Jan6'21 during US Capitol Trump mob attack: ❌EX-PRESIDENT TRUMP: Delighted. LOVED🖤THE TRUMP MOB & called them🚫Patriots. 🆚 OFFICER HODGES: DCPoliceDept SCREAMING IN AGONY as he was CRUSHED in a doorway during the Capitol riot
What a waste of time and money
Beating ,cops, on the head with our flag was sick!
Democrat managers presented a perfect chronologically illustrated and compelling demonstration of truth. Trump may not be convicted but if this was a court of law, he would have been convicted without question.
What?
_Politics Interesting. I guess he hasn't watching the same trial as I have. They've linked Trump directly to it. His involvement changed the permit to include a march to the Capitol, and his rally was widely viewed as the warm up to going to the Capitol to stop the counting of votes. 🎯
No minds will be changed. Nothing changes. The country is divided. Half of the country down right hates the other half and vice versa. This is America in the 21st century! Love it or leave it bitches!
That's why he is a last-ditch lawyer.
Lol David Schoen. If you can’t see the direct cause & effect then you’re looking through orange Kool Aid glasses. Can’t wait to see the clown show you put on.
Well, an insurrection SHOULD be offensive. That said I've seen a lot of stuff about the prosecution tying things to the Jan 6 speech, but I'm worried that they're not focusing on the nearly year-long constant agitating that Trump did almost daily to keep priming his MAGA's fuses.
deafdumbblind 😠
They have some fucking pair of balls to act like that's what is 'offensive.'
No gonna have to go with a no here
ALL of this DRAMA, CHAOS, CONFUSION in this country today (and the past 4-5 years) is because a whole lot of folk (including the BIRTHER 45 as their LEADER) HATE that BARACK OBAMA and his family were in the “WHITE” house for 8 years. That is the BOTTOM LINE!
The only things disgraceful in this Impeachment trial are Trump's lawyers, Trump's followers, and Trump himself. The tie between between Trump and insurrection was made abundantly clear
And crack is a vegetable...
Total break with reality and fact. trump and his followers still think he is president. Obviously. He is. Those gop senators likely believe that. If people believe conspiracies and proven lies, they will literally believe anything.
The managers just keep going on and on.
What? Was he napping? It's clear!
Offensive. Yes. But factual.
America is a fucking disgrace.
It won’t be any near offensive if Schoenberg decides to use BLM protests as a false equivalency.
_Politics Donald J. Trump is Offensive
Manipulated video footage can’t be used as evidence, very simple!
denying reality. What’s next, Trump on Jan 6th, calming everyone down when he saw the violence? LOL, that’s like saying Obama looks up & inspires to be like Trump? Thank God Obama is the more intelligent, smarter, and better by any measure than don & does not look up to him.
I hope if they acquit, the families of those lost sue them into the poor house.
He must be one of the few people that are not paying attention
HAHAHA. They’re going with that?
I thought he wasn’t going to pay attention to the trial.or was that a lie
The factual evidence is OVERWHELMING! Trump is guilty and THEY all know it. There is NO defense.
Republicans in this impeachment are like putting a two-piece puzzle together with a toddler who absolutely refuses to admit he knows how puzzles work..
When a case has been made that you cannot defend, there could be a tendency to misconstrue the information presented as offensive, especially when you could otherwise appear to be unprepared and incompetent.
Well we ALL saw how incoherent this lawyer is on first day. Pretty sure his opinion is obsolete!
He’s paid to say this. Actually, he probably hasn’t been paid yet, but he thinks he’ll be paid. He clearly doesn’t know who hired him. 😂
Good representation if this idiot can't see what's right in front of him. I'm sure he'll work up a great defense.
The connection was obvious with even the case. They republicans are just extremely corrupt.
Your darn right its 'offensive', it's offensive because Republican Senators decided this before it started. And yes its offensive, then why are Republicans not holding the man who started all this 'offensive' accountable? People before Party!
I call David Schoen OFFENSIVE. There... I guess anyone can just say that about ANYTHING — be false-outraged about ANYTHING! Hes got nothing else to say or argue...