I was right. "Lawyer" starts out with name-calling and an insistence that trial is "unconstitutional". He's saying Trump's 1/6 speech was rather bland, and pretending that was the only thing the House managers talked about, and the managers were "slanderous."

Bilious bullshit.

"Lawyer" is arguing that since there were objections raised by Democrats to some of the vote counts in 2016, that means Trump didn't engage in sedition.

I'm not sure how that logic works.
Now they're running a Trump campaign commercial.
A bunch of whataboutism, contrasting patriotic music behind Trump's racist dogwhistles about "law and order" against Democrats making firey speeches with dark music.
He went to the moronic Gym Jordan argument that Trump couldn't have instigated insurrection if the violence was gonna happen anyway (without acknowledging Trump had been encouraging and building up to that violence for close to a year).
About ten minutes in, and already he's fulfilled all of my expectations.
https://t.co/IKpBkDzahB
I think he intentionally mispronounced "Kamala" and "Ayanna".

Of course, he also referred to "incitement to resurrection," so it's hard to say.
Most of his presentation so far is distraction and whataboutism. No reference to the arguments and evidence presented by the House Managers.
Like all Republicans, he can't distinguish between a noun and an adjective, and he insists on referring to the "Democrat Party."
Schoen's argument is, "Democrats HATE Trump! They HATE him!! They HATE HATE HATE TRUMP! Do you hear me? They HATE TRUMP! It's all because they HATE TRUMP! It's TRUMP! and they HATE HIM! Got it? THEY HATE TRUMP!"
Schoen is claiming the House didn't give Trump "due process."

There is no "due process" consideration in either a grand jury or a House Impeachment. That's not how it works. It's like saying you can't checkmate someone in chess without holding a straight flush.
Schoen is insisting anything that was reported by the news media is false.
He's also pretending courtroom due process must be followed--after meeting with some of the jurors to plan strategy last night.
Back to THEY HATE TRUMP!!!! HATE HIM!! That's why we have to acquit Trump!! Because DEMOCRATS HATE TRUMP!!
More here.
https://t.co/KyCcL1HyOK

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We need to talk about the 'expert' witness statement evidence led by Ms Bell in her successful case before the Tavistock. THREAD

You can see who gave evidence in her support from these extracts from the Tavistock's Skeleton Argument.


Helpful for you to bear in mind that her solicitor was a man called Paul Conrathe, who has a long association with the religious right in the US (I have talked about him a number of times but this is as good a starting point as any).


I am not going to address here other criticisms that might be made of the form in which that evidence was given or the timing of its service before the court. I am just going to address, in alphabetical order, the individuals whose evidence Mr Conrathe led on Ms Bell's behalf.

The first witness, alphabetically, was Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford, Michael Biggs.

Mr Biggs was exposed for posting transphobic statements online under a fake twitter handle: @MrHenryWimbush according to this report.

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