This is not exactly announcing a defense based on the Constitutional question that isn’t."the former president has told advisers he wants the defense to focus on his baseless claims about election fraud, a person familiar with the discussions said." https://t.co/joyWdjc7U1
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 1, 2021
Which was what this said:Inbox: Trump announces new legal team pic.twitter.com/wczEwQIZJo
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 31, 2021
It is still being reported that new counsel wants to make the Constitutional argument. It’s the argument I’d want to make: basically attack the jurisdiction of the court. It’s the very kind of procedural argument I used to favor when I practiced law. You rarely get a chance to challenge jurisdiction so decisively. It’s not the kind of thing you pass up. Besides, what other argument do they have? Trump’s “Orient Express” defense?Inbox: Trump announces new legal team pic.twitter.com/wczEwQIZJo
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 31, 2021
Seems the “marchers” just expected to mill about on the ellipse, waiting for the vote to be announced. But the White House had other ideas. Which sounds like a slam-dunk incitement case, at least in a political proceeding like a Senate impeachment trial. Which is not the magic bullet that will cause 17 GOP Senators to vote against Trump. But the more this becomes bad politics, the better.The Trump White House was behind the decision to have a march to the Capitol: NYTimes reporthttps://t.co/fV1pqJpziH
— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 1, 2021
“The rally would now effectively become a White House production. ... It would now include a march from the Ellipse to the Capitol. Before the White House became involved, ... the plan had been to stay at the Ellipse until the counting of state electoral slates was completed.” https://t.co/BWmglI9I1J
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) February 1, 2021
But, you know, Congress can’t do anything about it. Nope, too late for that.Our examination shows how Donald Trump waged an extralegal campaign that convinced tens of millions of Americans the election had been stolen and that reached a deadly climax at the Capitol on Jan. 6. https://t.co/iBUjgrmtZ1
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 31, 2021
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