White House counsel Pat Cipollone, Trump personal lawyer Jay Sekulow, and their whole crew are back to continue the opening arguments in the impeachment defense of Donald Trump. They gave a brief preview on Saturday, which was exactly what you’d expect: lies and attacks. They resume in the wake of reports that former national security adviser John Bolton’s book recounts a conversation with Donald Trump in which Trump explicitly tied military aid to Ukraine investigating his political opponents—exactly what Trump was impeached for—but it’s unlikely that will change the basic lie-and-attack strategy.
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2020 · 12:02:14 AM +00:00 · HunterA new face in the Trump defense lineup: Robert Ray, who so far is repeating Ken Starr’s arguments that there is too much impeachment these days so everyone should just go home.
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2020 · 12:05:19 AM +00:00 · Barbara MorrillRobert Ray, the latest Trump lawyer to yap, tell us that Nixon committed a lot of crimes when he wasn’t impeached.
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2020 · 12:07:23 AM +00:00 · Hunter“Impeachment was never intended to be a partisan tool,” says Ray, ignoring that the problem here is that one party and only one party believes Corruption is Good Now.
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2020 · 12:13:53 AM +00:00 · HunterAfter the fireworks of Pam Bondi brazenly lying about the basics of Shokin’s corruption, Ray’s return to a long, meandering “and we tied an onion to our belts, which was the style at the time” reminiscing brings things back around to where we were this morning. This impeachment is partisan and improper, because we say so, and Trump’s crimes aren’t serious, like lying about sex, but only attempts to tamper with the fabric of our elections (again.)
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2020 · 12:23:38 AM +00:00 · HunterI’m not ignoring Ray, I just once again have no idea how this ties into an actual defense of Trump. He’s instead arguing that a “partisan” impeachment is “illegitimate”, the alleged crime wasn’t serious enough, and the House did it wrong, ad nauseam.
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2020 · 12:27:04 AM +00:00 · HunterNow Ray is again saying the evidence of a quid-pro-quo is “weak,” again completely ignoring the new Bolton revelation that Trump directly told him he was holding up military aid for a Biden investigation—debunking this entire plank of the defense. All of this is now gibberish.
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2020 · 12:32:51 AM +00:00 · HunterDon’t hold your breath. So-called ‘moderate’ Republicans have been spinning this for days, an attempt to at least look like they have contemplated maybe doing the not-corrupt thing.
xWITNESS NEWS: Multiple GOP sources tell me there are or seem to be 51 votes for the first vote on witnesses - whether to consider the idea of witnesses.But not yet 51 votes for any *specific* witness.
— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) January 28, 2020
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