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Trump's legal team quits week before impeachment trial

Stevicus

Stevicus

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Donald Trump's entire legal team quits week before impeachment trial: Sources

Just gets weirder and weirder.

All five of the impeachment lawyers who were expected to represent former President Donald Trump have called it quits, sources told ABC News.

The team, led by South Carolina lawyer Butch Bowers, resigned in part because of disagreements over how to mount Trump’s defense, the sources said. The lawyers had planned to argue the constitutionality of holding a trial given Trump is now a former president.
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Apparently, the lawyers wanted to argue the constitutionality of impeachment, while Trump wanted them to argue there was election fraud.

The disagreements over strategy varied, sources told ABC News, but Trump wanted his team to argue there was election fraud, while the lawyers and some top advisers to the former president wanted the focus to remain on the constitutionality of a trial with the president no longer in office.

A source close to the former president described the change as a "mutual decision" between the parties.

Trump was impeached by the House on Jan. 13 on a single article for "incitement of insurrection" following the violent siege at the U.S. Capitol that left one police officer and four others dead and left members of Congress and their staffs fearing for their lives. The insurrection, which took place Jan. 6, was preceded by a Trump rally when he told his followers to head to the Capitol and repeatedly said they should fight for him.
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Maybe he could just plead insanity. I wonder if that would work.

Sources believe there will be another round of additions to the team in the coming days though the process is nowhere near finalized with just over a week to go. Many attorneys who worked with or represented Trump during the last impeachment trial are declining to defend him in the Senate.

Trump's former top lawyer, Jay Sekulow, who represented him at his first impeachment trial, will not be taking part in this trial. Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, also said he will not be representing the former president after appearing at the same rally that preceded the siege on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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Senate Republicans had asked for a delay in the trial, agreed to by Democrats, following the delivery of the impeachment article in order for Trump to work with his still-forming legal team.
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Evangelicalhumanist

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
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My biggest question is how is it that 95 of the 100 "jurors" in this trial have already made up their minds, when there hasn't yet been a case presented? Since that seems to be the case, it probably wouldn't matter if Trump was defended by the Muppets.
 
icehorse

icehorse

......unaffiliated...... anti-dogmatist
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Evangelicalhumanist said:
My biggest question is how is it that 95 of the 100 "jurors" in this trial have already made up their minds, when there hasn't yet been a case presented? Since that seems to be the case, it probably wouldn't matter if Trump was defended by the Muppets.
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ouch and funny at the same time.
 
SigurdReginson

SigurdReginson

Grēne Mann
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Evangelicalhumanist said:
...it probably wouldn't matter if Trump was defended by the Muppets.
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I thought he already was?...

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wandering peacefully

wandering peacefully

Which way to the woods?
Stevicus said:
Donald Trump's entire legal team quits week before impeachment trial: Sources

Just gets weirder and weirder.



Apparently, the lawyers wanted to argue the constitutionality of impeachment, while Trump wanted them to argue there was election fraud.



Maybe he could just plead insanity. I wonder if that would work.
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They probably figured out they wouldn't get paid for their time. Trump has screwed his employees for years. Not to mention no amount of pay would compensate anyone for having to defend the crazy orange man. Except Rudy who most likely takes his pay in booze and hookers supplied by his secret fantasy lover trumpeter.
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
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This is a reminder that Trump will use the trial as an opportunity to gin up more hatred, fear, and whatnot in America.

Not much else about this news strikes me as remarkable.
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
Audie said:
Not only, but knows law better than lawyers.

What a ace!
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I forget now. Did Trump pass his Bar Exam before
or after he was awarded the Nobel for his pioneering work in
the epidemiology of pandemics?

Or am I being so snarky that six people now feel it's necessary
to 'show me up' by launching themselves down a right wing
rabbit hole. That's one of the more common things people
have been saying about how they have come to believe what
they have come to believe. "The left was being aesthetically intolerable.
I couldn't stand it a moment longer."


I miss having friends on any side these days that I can be
myself around without risk of triggering them.
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
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fantome profane said:
Dontcha just hate spellcheck.
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No kidding! Every time someone types in 'truth' it comes out spelled 'irrelevant'.

I think that alone gives us sufficient grounds to believe a conspiracy is afoot,
and that we should waste no more time getting around to blaming the wrong
people for it.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Sunstone said:
New This is a reminder that Trump will use the trial as an opportunity to gin up more hatred, fear, and whatnot in America.
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On one hand, this insurrection has been good for putting Republicans in a difficult position and answer a question they've been putting off for awhile (longer than Trump): Who are we? What do we stand for?
On the other hand, this is where Trump is dangerous. I would say the Capital Riot serves as a good indication that he knew he probably wasn't over exaggerating much when he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and get away with it. He knows how to appeal to and captivate his audience. And it is his audience, and he doesn't care about appealing to those who aren't his audience.
I don't think Trump is being dumb by wanting to focus his defense on his claims of fraud. He knows he's lost that and it's over. But it's not over for his audience. Trump needs his narrative present, because his audience needs to hear it. His future doesn't depend on him fading into the background. It depends on him stoking fires. He needs to make it look like the trial isn't about the riot but an election that was stolen from him. To provide the support that affirms to his supporters the riot was justified.
Then on to the Patriot Party.
 
Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Shadow Wolf said:
On one hand, this insurrection has been good for putting Republicans in a difficult position and answer a question they've been putting off for awhile (longer than Trump): Who are we? What do we stand for?
On the other hand, this is where Trump is dangerous. I would say the Capital Riot serves as a good indication that he knew he probably wasn't over exaggerating much when he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and get away with it. He knows how to appeal to and captivate his audience. And it is his audience, and he doesn't care about appealing to those who aren't his audience.
I don't think Trump is being dumb by wanting to focus his defense on his claims of fraud. He knows he's lost that and it's over. But it's not over for his audience. Trump needs his narrative present, because his audience needs to hear it. His future doesn't depend on him fading into the background. It depends on him stoking fires. He needs to make it look like the trial isn't about the riot but an election that was stolen from him. To provide the support that affirms to his supporters the riot was justified.
Then on to the Patriot Party.
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There probably wouldn't be an 'insurrection' in the first place if Democrats would be more responsible, listened to and address opposing issues and didn't **** off half the country.
 
fantome profane

fantome profane

Anti-Woke = Anti-Justice
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Twilight Hue said:
There probably wouldn't be an 'insurrection' in the first place if Democrats would be more responsible, listened to and address opposing issues and didn't **** off half the country.
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Do you also believe that violence and property damage committed in BLM protests were justified because no one was listening to their concerns?
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Twilight Hue said:
There probably wouldn't be an 'insurrection' in the first place if Democrats would be more responsible, listened to and address opposing issues and didn't **** off half the country.
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There wouldn't have been one had Trump not spent months going on about his lies of election fraud.
 
ImmortalFlame

ImmortalFlame

Woke gremlin
Twilight Hue said:
There probably wouldn't be an 'insurrection' in the first place if Democrats would be more responsible, listened to and address opposing issues and didn't **** off half the country.
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Are you serious? You seriously blame the Democrats for Trump lying about the Democrats?
 
ecco

ecco

Veteran Member
Twilight Hue said:
There probably wouldn't be an 'insurrection' in the first place if Democrats would be more responsible, listened to and address opposing issues and didn't **** off half the country.
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Is that a mantra you read in a QAnon post?
Blame the left!
Blame the left!
Blame the left!
Blame the left!
Blame the left!

What democrats failed to listen to was how truly dangerous Donald Trump was. Had they listened, they might have worked harder in 2016 and prevented the orange narcissist from ever getting elected.
 
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