Trump readies impeachment defense with eye on scoring political wins
Pat Cipollone, the top White House lawyer, spent the weekend working from his office on the second floor of the West Wing, preparing to defend a client who, at one point, was on the second floor of the executive residence suggesting the impeachment charges against him should be dismissed outright.
Local : 2020-01-13(Monday) 21:02:10
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Looks like the Dems are shooting themselves in the feet with their impeachment crusade..
He doesn’t need much defense when the Republicans in the Senate have decided that they just want a show trial.
A show trial would have a lot of witnesses, like Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Ciaramella, Schiff, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, the Ohrs, Lynch, Barr, Durham, and the other deep state folks that got caught in the coup plots against Trump.
OTOH, the dems could call Bolton, Mulvaney, Pompeo and anyone else who would just claim executive privilege. That's the "show trial" view.
The "short trial" view just throws out all the 2nd hand evidence, and Article-2, and just dismisses them for lack of evidence and lack of constitutionality. Article-2 is thrown out because the USSC just took the Trump vs. House subpoena for his tax records, so Trump does in-fact have the right to appeal to the courts and that is NOT "obstruction of the House". Supreme Court ruling pulls rug out from under article of impeachment
That doesn’t make any sense. None of those people you listed have anything to do with the actual allegations or impeachment against Trump. They’re just a list of people that Trump supporters want to get revenge on.
On the other hand, Mulvaney, Bolton, Giuliani and Pompeo are all relevant witnesses. If they want to claim executive privilege, then it’ll be an interesting test case to see if that claim stands up since its never been used before in this context.