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Day Four<\/b><\/p>\n

Weak Tea for the Defense<\/b><\/p>\n

February 12th<\/sup>, 2021<\/i><\/p>\n

After the devastating presentations the House Management Team gave, there wasn\u2019t much Team Trump had to bring to the table. They questioned the constitutionality of the trial\u2014something the Senate already settled four days earlier on a 56-44 vote. They claimed that attacking Trump for his speech on January 6th<\/sup> 2021 would have a chilling effect on free speech because all Trump did was urge his followers to fight for a noble cause peacefully. They then ran a 10 minute supercut of Democrats and random celebrities using the word \u201cfight.\u201d Hundreds of half-second examples, none of which, oddly enough, resulting in an angry armed mob sacking the Capitol. Even some Republicans were laughing at how ridiculous, and how strained, the efforts to equate Trump\u2019s rhetoric to that of Democratic speakers was.<\/p>\n

Just to show how desperate Team Trump were to fill the three hours out of the 16 allotted to them, they showed variants on the same video three more times. They repeated themselves a lot. In fact, they used three hours to present about 15 minutes of material. Perhaps the aim was to have the Senate nod off and forget what they were doing. Watching presiding officer Patrick Leahy, who is 80, struggle to stay vertical in his chair, it probably was about the only real plan they had.<\/p>\n

They started out with the claim that a \u201cleader of Antifa\u201d had been arrested prior to the rally, but was released. Quite aside from the fact that Antifa doesn\u2019t have a leader, the effort to imply that Antifa was involved in the march in any way falls apart when you realize that the purpose of the march was to overturn the results of the election and give Trump a second term. Oh, and hang Mike Pence and put a bullet in \u201cNancy\u2019s friggin\u2019 brain.\u201d You know\u2014peaceful like.<\/p>\n

Team Trump went on to describe how Democrats did nothing while BLM and Antifa \u201cburned vast swatches of American cities.\u201d This would have been a good time to show the insurance claims surrounding such destruction, but at least they didn\u2019t use the campaign videos the Trump campaign released about how THIS would be what America would look like under Sleepy Joe. I guess we weren\u2019t supposed to notice the images were all taken under Trump\u2019s America, except for the ones they [ahem] borrowed from scenes in the 80s, or from other countries.<\/p>\n

A new addition to Team Trump was Michael T. van der Veen, \u201c…who less than one year ago was suing<\/a> then-President Trump, alleging in federal court that his role in undermining the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and baseless claims of mail-in voter fraud would disenfranchise Pennsylvania citizens,\u201d according to the Law&Crime website. Well, in fairness it\u2019s probably getting pretty hard to find a lawyer who hasn\u2019t sued Trump at one point or another. Just part of that lawn order matrix that underlies Trump\u2019s philosophy.<\/p>\n

The team hilariously used Trump uttering \u201cLaw and Order\u201d many times during the trial to demonstrate Trump\u2019s love of, well, law and order. The term really has a different meaning when Republicans use it, and has since the days of Spiro Agnew. With Trump, it\u2019s even more different: he says it to mean letting cops, national guard and troops go in and beat the shit out of actual peaceful demonstrators, like the ones that were standing around when Trump wanted to stroll over to Saint Patricks and hold a bible upside down to show how religious or patriotic or something he was.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, the defense was empty flailing. The trial was \u201crushed\u201d. Democrats always hated on Donald Trump and wanted to impeach him from day one. True, some did, but bills to impeach don\u2019t go anywhere without strong supporting evidence. [At least one Republican House member filed a bill to impeach Joe Biden before he was even inaugurated, which may be a new record in partisanship.] Democrats had a bug up their asses about Russia. It was unconstitutional. It was denying the will of 73 million Americans. It attacked free speech. Everyone should have the right to use ambiguous phrasing to send a murderous mob to burn the Capitol. It\u2019s kind of the Law and Order version of Free Speech. The Democrats \u201cdoctored evidence.\u201d Oh, and they violated the discovery process by withholding video evidence and springing it on Team Trump on Day One. Unfortunately for them, they signed the receipt for those videos two days before the trial began.<\/p>\n

They had a question and answer period, which is still ongoing, but Bernie Sanders, characteristically, had the mike-drop moment.<\/p>\n

He asked the lawyers on the Trump Team if in their judgment, Trump (who Team Trump were forced to refer to conspicuously as the 45th<\/sup> President) won the 2020 election. Van der Veer snapped, \u201cMy judgment. Who asked that? My judgment is irrelevant in this proceeding,\u201d It was as close as any of them could come to an answer.<\/p>\n

That, of course, is what underlay Trump\u2019s whipping up an angry mob, culminating in the attack on the Capitol. Even now, his allies and mouthpieces can\u2019t admit that he lost the election.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty much over except for the voting at this point. And most elected Republicans are a combination of liars, fools, cowards and traitors. Trump in all likelihood will be acquitted by the Senate.<\/p>\n

But in the eyes of the public, both Trump and the Republican Party were found guilty of sedition against America. The vote to acquit is, at best, a Pyrrhic victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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