You’d think that if Pence could overturn the election like Trump claimed then Biden surely would’ve taken up that chance

Also this is such a small thing but one thing I noticed in that Trump campaign ad the defense just ran, there were no citations, unlike every clip that the impeachment managers showed
Michael Van Der Veen is giving us the full Fox News Primetime Defense.
PROCESS ARGUMENT.

DRINK.
Lol my guy this is the chance to rebut the evidence that they’ve presented against Trump.
Schoen is saying that “withholding” the new security camera footage was a violation of Trump’s due process rights

BUT the rules say that all the evidence admitted into the record after you’re done has to be seen by both sides beforehand

He’s seen it now. That counts.
Oh. Okay so Schoen is going to argue, as I predicted, that the use of media reports by the prosecution as a lack of evidence

Way to insist that the prosecution call upon witnesses to testify!!

https://t.co/ZMksgGoA0d
Like...is this a bluff? Is Schoen baiting the managers into calling witnesses?

Because he’s saying that the media footage was manipulated and “false representations of tweets”!
Oh my god. We’re really gonna do a “ZOOM ENHANCE!!” right now??

And yes it is a recreation of a tweet because the president got his account nuked!!
IF THE TWEET HAS A TYPO, FROM YOUR MIND YOU MUST WIPE-O
Wait. Wait. Wait. So...your defense. Is to show the parts of Trump’s speech where he issues a veiled threat to members of Congress while directing people to go to the Capitol to fight.
I’m. Screaming.
“The president insisted that there are two sides of the story about white supremacists marching” is a hell of a defense
“The House managers showed video that was cut off the threats against members of Congress who refused to illegally overturn the election for me” is a hell of a defense
“Donald Trump did a lot of things that were impeachable but Democrats didn’t actually impeach him for over the last four years” is a hell of a defense
“Every example of the use of the word ‘fight’ is morally the same” is a hell of a defense
“Elizabeth Warren ran an extremely energetic campaign” is a hell of a defense
“The DNC should honestly pay us for this campaign ad” is a hell of a defense
“We are going to spend literally ten minutes showing Democrats saying the word ‘fight’ but somehow not fomenting angry mobs which only happens when our client says it” is a hell of a defense
“We are going to play the word ‘fight’ Clockwork Orange-style until it no longer sounds like a real word” is a hell of a defense
“People angry over centuries of racial abuse are the exact same as channeling people to attack Congress to overturn the election” is a hell of a defense
“What about the time that Joe Biden and every member of the Senate agreed that there was no way to overturn electoral votes in 2017” is a hell of a defense
“Democrats correctly insisted that electronic voting machines should have paper trails” is a hell of a defense
“Inspiring an attack on Congress is the exact same as Bill Clinton’s impeachment” is a hell of an argument
“Can you believe that the Democrats would say that Congress’s ability to speak freely on the floor doesn’t apply to Trump speaking at a rally” is a hell of a defense
“We have to ignore that only one side here actually gave a speech that led to an attack on Congress” is a hell of a defense
“We are going to show you another super cut of speeches that did not result in an attack on Congress” is a hell of a defense
“An impeachment trial is actually a law against free speech” is a hell of a defense
“The Constitution has limits on Congress’s impeachment powers that aren’t in the text” is a hell of a defense
“Please ignore the part where he says that no one who violates the constitution and the laws should be secure” is a hell of a defense
“I’m going to conveniently forget that members of Congress aren’t subject to impeachment and have their own protection for speech on the floor of Congress” is a hell of a defense
“Congressional debates are the exact same as Trump lying about the election being stolen” is a hell of a defense
“The House managers didn’t cite Supreme Court cases irrelevant to their argument in their brief” is a hell of a defense
“Trump actually said the word ‘fight’ a lot of times that Democrats didn’t show that involve him encouraging his crowd to overturn the election on Jan. 6 because it was fraudulent” is a hell of a defense
“If a Dem said ‘fight’, Trump can’t incite” is a hell of an argument
“I’m gonna spend my opening remarks self-negging” is a hell of a defense
“There was no insurrection because what happened at the Capitol failed” is a hell of a defense
“The House managers accurately showed how horrific the attack on the Capitol after Trump rallied his supportes and whipped them into a frenzy was” is a hell of a defense
“Please watch this same Trump campaign ad again, you’ll love it just as much this time” is a hell of a defense
“Trump can’t have incited the mob if they were too dumb to understand his speech on Jan. 6 was all about peace and primary elections” is a hell of a defense
“The violence on Jan. 6 was preplanned during the months that the former president, my client, was falsely insisting that the election was stolen and encouraging his supporters to protect him” is a hell of an arguemnt
“It’s impossible my client’s words were misunderstood when after he spoke the crowd then attacked Congress” is a hell of an argument
“My client’s stream of conscious bouncing back and forth between topics means you can’t discern any real meaning in his words” is a hell of a defense
“My client was only encouraging his supporters to throw you out of office if you didn’t overturn the election, so that the next Congress can do just that” is a hell of a defense.
“Trump told people to go home four hours after the Capitol was attacked and only told people to support police after the building was seiged because they’re on our side and not to leave the building” is a hell of a defense
“some of the president’s supporters skipped his speech and were already gathering at the capitol before it began because they knew attacking it was the goal ahead of time” is a hell of a defense
“the preplanned assault on the capitol had nothing to do with the fact that they were in DC because trump invited them and the fact that they were inspired by his rhetoric about the election being stolen” is a hell of a defense
“my client’s threatening phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State trying to get him to overturn the results of the election in the state can’t have been part of his plan to overthrow the election because he didn’t know it was being recorded” is a hell of a defense
“my client’s lies about the election being stolen were totally based in fact, despite no court agreeing with him” is a hell of an argument
“my client’s words sound better when i read them than when playing the tape that was released publicly” is a hell of a defense
“my client’s inane rambling about voter fraud sounds better when it comes from my mouth” is a hell of a defense
“Democrats saying that the goal is to keep Trump from running again shows that they’re trying to keep Trump from running again” is a hell of a defense
“I think my rambling defense speaks for itself, please go do something more important” is a hell of a defense

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OK, #Squidigation fans, I think we need to talk about the new Wisconsin suit Donald Trump filed - personally - in Federal Court last night. The suit is (as usual) meritless. But it's meritless in new and disturbing ways. This thread will be


Not, I hope, Seth Abramson long. But will see.

I apologize in advance to my wife, who would very much prefer I be billing time (today's a light day, though) and to my assistant, to whom I owe some administrative stuff this will likely keep me from 😃

First, some background. Trump's suit essentially tries to Federalize the Wisconsin Supreme Court complaint his campaign filed, which we discussed here.


If you haven't already, go read that thread. I'm not going to be re-doing the same analysis, and I'm not going to be cross-linking to that discussion as we go. (Sorry, I like you guys, and I see this as public service, but there are limits)

Also, @5DollarFeminist has a good stand-alone thread analyzing the new Federal complaint - it's worth reading as well, though some of the analysis will overlap.
DONALD TRUMP IS SO RACIST ...

— that he restored and increased HBCU funding (which Obama cut permanently) and met with HBCU leaders to find more solutions to bring higher education to black communities!

— that he gave loans to black entrepreneurs when the banks wouldn't.
https://t.co/qiK2Ul7se2

— that Jesse Jackson praised Trump for helping him put together his Rainbow Coalition and for being a model for “people on Wall Street to represent diversity.”

— that he was awarded the 1986 Ellis Island Medal Of Honor alongside Rosa parks and Muhammad Ali for “patriotism, tolerance, brotherhood and DIVERSITY”. They don't give these medals to racists. https://t.co/WliqZHc34j

— that he dated a black woman.

— that he donated to and did personal favors for Rev. Al Sharpton's National Youth Movement. https://t.co/nBTvLiO128

— that he helped sponsor and finance both of Jesse Jackson's presidential bids.

— that when a homeless black woman was found illegally living in Trump Tower he allowed this woman to stay for 8 years, and provided her with three meals a day, and fresh flowers once a week.

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This media manipulation effort was inspired by the success of the "kids in cages" freakout, a 100% Stalinist propaganda drive that required people to forget about Obama putting migrant children in cells. It worked, so now they want pics of Trump "gassing children on the border."

There's a heavy air of Pallywood around the whole thing as well. If the Palestinians can stage huge theatrical performances of victimhood with the willing cooperation of Western media, why shouldn't the migrant caravan organizers expect the same?

It's business as usual for Anarchy, Inc. - the worldwide shredding of national sovereignty to increase the power of transnational organizations and left-wing ideology. Many in the media are true believers. Others just cannot resist the narrative of "change" and "social justice."

The product sold by Anarchy, Inc. is victimhood. It always boils down to the same formula: once the existing order can be painted as oppressors and children as their victims, chaos wins and order loses. Look at the lefties shrieking in unison about "Trump gassing children" today.