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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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Will Trump play the #PenceCard December 23 (today)?
Thread: Absolutely not. The assertion that he will hurts our credibility and the cause because people who trust some accounts pushing it will be demoralized when it doesn’t happen. Let me explain:

2/ For this thread again, we will assume the Electoral Count Act of 1887 is Constitutional and binding. It very well may not be, but it doesn’t appear we have any court that will ever say so.

3/ The ECA is found in 3 USC 1-21. In secs 12 & 13, it requires that on the 4th Wed of Dec (that’s today) the President of the Senate (that’s Pence) to notify the states if he/she (or the Archivist) has not received a “certificate of vote and list” mentioned in sections 9 & 11.

4/ Sections 9 & 10 are merely administrative. Sec9 says that electors from the state make & sign six certificates of the votes w/ a lists for Pres & VP & attach a list of electors. Sec10 requires the electors to seal up the certificates & certify that the list of votes are inside

5/ The Pence Card is the idea that today, the VP can review & decide that the dem electors sent by AZ/NV/GA/PA/MI/WI don't meet the reqs of the ECA and/or the Const so, in effect, the VP hasn't received proper electors from the states & has a duty to notify them of that fact.
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Greg Olear
Greg Olear
@gregolear
As we now have an hour-long recording of Donald John Trump going full mobster on a Georgia state official, I thought I'd do a thread highlighting some of my work on the criminality of Trump & his associates.

[THREAD]


1/ We begin with the three-part series written with mob expert @LincolnsBible. Part One discusses how Trump, a second-generation mob money launderer, became a Confidential Informant, thus avoiding

2/ Part Two details how a guy owned by La Cosa Nostra came to be owned by the Russian mafiya. The 80s were boon times for hostile

3/ In the final segment, @LincolnsBible explains why Trump's criminality is not more widely known, and how the IC's commitment to secrecy above all else failed us these last four

4/ If you believe Rudy Giuliani, now the president's private attorney, somehow changed in the years after 9/11, you'll be surprised to learn that he's always been awful, INCLUDING during his "America's Mayor"
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💥💥💥Situation Update, Dec. 3rd – Trump invokes foreign interference provision of his 2018 executive order, authorizing military response to cyber warfare, see NSPM 13 💥💥💥 [M.Adams]


⁉️ ✅ Ask yourself this question: What was the purpose of yesterday’s White House speech about election fraud and vote-rigging?

✅ If you think it was all about Trump communicating to the people, think again. This speech was really about Trump communicating with Chris Miller

✅ and the DoD about foreign interference in the U.S. election while laying out the key national security justifications that are necessary to invoke what I’m calling the “national security option” for defending the United States against an attempted cyber warfare coup.

⭕️ Decoding President Trump’s Dec. 2nd speech:
https://t.co/G9kmUfVQzS

🇺🇸Consider what Trump said in yesterday’s speech. About 95% of this speech was filler. Only 5% really matters, as I detail below:

1. First, he lays out that he has a sworn oath to defend the United States

2. Constitution against the wartime “siege” that’s underway:

As President, I have no higher duty than to defend the laws and the constitution of the United States. That is why I am determined to protect our election system, which is now under coordinated assault and siege.
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@McDutchoven
When Trump knowingly accepted Russian help and obstructed the doj investigation and lied to the American people about who attacked our elections or extorting Ukraine the republicans didn't provide a valid counter argument

they asked "who unmasked?" or leaked or whistleblew

when Trump gave his acting officials and son-in-law and cabinet members security clearances that they didn't get cleared for Republicans look the other way

When he sided with Putin in Helsinki Republicans were in Moscow in secret meetings they voted not to release the transcript

When handed election security bills the Republicans voted against all but one of them which would strengthen funding for the machines that McConnell uses in his state

They helped Trump rail against the special counsel investigation into interference in our election

When a federal judge said Bill Barr had misrepresented that report they ignored it

When their own senate Intel report came out and said that Trump Associates were actively working to disseminate Russian misinformation into our public discourse during the election

And Ratcliffe said he wouldn't breathe the Intel committee on the interference

GOP ignored it.
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Martyn McLaughlin
Martyn McLaughlin
@MartynMcL
NEW: Before he left office, Trump filed his final financial disclosures with @OfficeGovEthics. I’ve had a read through them. The income he is claiming in respect of his Scottish resorts is entirely divorced from the reality set out in black in white in his UK accounts. Thread 👇

Firstly, Trump lists his income from ‘golf related revenue’ at Turnberry as $9.8m. Which is interesting, given the latest UK accounts for Turnberry's parent company registered losses of £2.3m ($3.1m) for the 12 months to 31 Dec 2019.


Even the turnover in the UK accounts - listed as £19.6m ($26.8m) is a country mile off that income figure listed in Trump's OGE filings. Comparing like for like, even accounting for that weird 'golf related revenue' descriptor, it's not even close.

If you drill down in more detail, and subtract the administrative expenses at Turnberry's parent firm from its turnover in order to get closer to whatever that 'income' figure entails, the number is still £12.5m ($17.2m).

And if you go deeper, and account for the gains the company made in foreign exchanges, and deduct depreciation and amortisation costs, the figure is £9.9m ($13.6m). Still a way off the OGE number.
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