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If you are wondering why I'm no longer tweeting about the legal arguments, it's because the @realDonaldTrump team has stopped making any even legal arguments altogether.

We are in the "Infowars" section of #Impeachment. We don't need a lawyer for this, just a bath.
@realDonaldTrump It's normal to have a little bit of blood dripping out of your eye while you listen to Republicans, right? That's just, like, to be expected, right?
@realDonaldTrump Robin Williams: [Holding GOP talking points]
Me: You have any experience with that?
Williams: Yeah.
Me: My old man told me I gotta pick between Biden or Buttigieg.
Williams: I gotta go with Buttigieg there chief
Me: I picked Biden.
Williams: Why?
Me: Because F**k them, that's why
@realDonaldTrump Now we're at the point where Obama is the real Russian plant.

They're going to do birtherism soon.

#ImpeachmentTrial
@realDonaldTrump Now this guy is arguing that Obama should have been impeached.
@realDonaldTrump I mean, @realDonaldTrump is on trial for his presidency and he's STILL demanding that somehow his lawyers make this all about Obama.
@realDonaldTrump This is such amateur hour crap.
@realDonaldTrump Eric Herschmann now wishing the House made impeachment a "safe space" for #MAGA
@realDonaldTrump Now he's arguing the tax cuts are great or some such nonsense.
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I love that @RepJeffries is the executive privilege expert, but he's both one of the better speakers and he never gets muddled on the critical point here.
TRUMP. NEVER. ASSERTED. EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE.
@RepJeffries This is one point where I feel the press coverage of impeachment hasn't been as strong as I would like.
The exec privilege argument is their *only* one to answer the Obstruction of Congress charge. Even Dersh doesn't have a discredited theory for why OBSTRUCTION is okay.
@RepJeffries So, it's important to remind people, at ALL TIMES, that the exec priv argument fails because @realDonaldTrump didn't assert it.

And EVERY Republican Senator should be asked, by reporters, "well, why didn't Trump assert Executive Privilege?"
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Elie Mystal
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Whitehouse invokes the "missing witness" rule to draw an adverse inference for the party trying to conceal witnesses.

It's like, if your "alibi" witness is your spouse but you refuse to let your spouse testify under the spousal privilege, the jury can infer you're full of crap.
Philbin says that he *imagine* that the missing witness charge is not available when a person asserts a valid privilege for making the witness unavailable.

That's not exactly right. There are, at least in NY, 4 elements here.
1. Witness is material
2. Witness testimony is not, like, repetitive of other testimony.
3. Witness is under the "control" of the party blocking them, and could otherwise be expected to testify in favor of blocking party.
4. Witness is available.
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Sekulow surfaces a consistent Republican lie about the Clinton impeachment. He says that the House had conducted a thorough investigation, including all relevant depositions.

NOT TRUE... Ken STARR conducted that investigation.
Why didn't we have an independent counsel investigation into the Ukraine bribery scheme?

Will, you'd have to ask Attorney General and cover-up artist, William Barr.
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@realDonaldTrump @1100Penn President Trump’s D.C. hotel had so many customers at a networking event for lobbyists last night, that when the hotel's boss went to boast about his “#success” on Twitter, panorama mode was required to show all the patrons.

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@realDonaldTrump @1100Penn Russian-funded RT America personalities celebrated “great things” at the Trump Hotel DC. It’s unclear if they were referring to the ease w/which staffers for foreign gov't-funded media can get cash to the U.S. president or something else.

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