Trump's lead-off lawyer reminds me of Ross Perot's VP candidate, in his one and only public appearance at the VP debate. "Who am I? Why am I here?" He meant it as a folksy way of introducting himself to the general public. It came off as a doddering old man waking up from a nap under klieg lights.It's worth pausing for just a second to consider how ludicrous this argument is. Impeached presidents could just resign moments before their conviction by the Senate and escape accountability. It's not consistent with the idea of checks and balances. https://t.co/P1liL4hpEc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 9, 2021
This is a "My Cousin Vinny"-level mismatch of opening statements so far
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 9, 2021
This guy is no better. Not that it will persuade Sen. Wicker, whose interpretation of Constitutional law is like that of most of us (let's be honest): "whatever outcome is most convenient for me."
Far easier to say you voted because it was too late to convict, than to say because you feared Trump's "base."
I'm sure Sen. Wicker also appreciates this guy blowing sunshine up his ass; speaking of the importance of the Senate, and connecting it to the Roman Senate, and the like. Flattery will get you everywhere, especially when the jury is 100 politicians.
This is really, really, really bad.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) February 9, 2021
Athens? Rome? Really?
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) February 9, 2021
As I've said before: not the best lawyers.Is this a legal argument? I am only a caveman and unfamiliar with your modern legal ways.#ImpeachmentTrial
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 9, 2021
Trump is dead as week-old fish in the courts."I got lost in the capitol, but here's why we have the Senate, and now we're in Ancient Greece."
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 9, 2021
"To swim the English Channel."
"No, in Greece..."
The irony is, that after that rambling paen to the Senate (Athens! Rome! Carthage! "Unreal."), incoherence in the well of the Senate will be proven to not even be a stumbling block. Right, Sen. Wicker?Hey, legal twitter. Is public incoherence a strategy?
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 9, 2021
Now I wish I'd listened to it. They're arguing the friggin' Roman Senate? That would be because a bloody aristocratic Republic that turned degenerated into multiple civil wars, etc. and morphed into a bloody aristocratic imperial atrocity is something so admirable.
ReplyDeleteDo these jackasses learn all of their history from Hollywood and cabloid TV?
Pretty much. Trump's other lawyer stands up and declares where he stands "the hallowed ground of democracy." Which the House Managers just talked about, in emotional and moving terms (and personal, for one of them at least) as having been invaded by the very people Trump incited to violence.
DeleteThese guys are clowns. If this is the best Trump can muster, his time in criminal court is going to be nasty, brutish, and short.