The Hill reports, "Lawyers representing former
President Trump on Tuesday detailed the defense they’ll lay out at next week’s impeachment trial, arguing that it is unconstitutional to impeach a former president and that
Trump’s speech did not directly lead to the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6.
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The defense brief argues that Trump’s speech before a group of supporters, some of whom later sacked the Capitol, was protected under the First Amendment. And it accuses Democrats of depriving Trump of due process by rushing impeachment through the House."
One has to seriously ask, is that a joke.
“The constitutional provision requires that a person actually hold office to be impeached,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.
That is a lie. It does not say that anywhere in the Constitution. The President is responsible for what he does from his first day in office to his last day in office. The President doesn't get a mulligan for what he does in January.
“It is denied he threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch Government," the brief said.
Apparently, Trump's lawyers are unaware of what Trump said on Jan. 6.
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”
“When you catch somebody in a fraud, you are allowed to go by very different rules."
“We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
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Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. We are going to try — give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re try — going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”
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After hours went by watching the mob he had incited attack our capitol Trump declared on video, "
This was a fraudulent election but we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace.
We love you. You're very special. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil but go home and go home in peace."
Senate Republicans will acquit Trump.
The American people will not.