🙌 Defense lawyers and their clients, the Capitol insurrectionists, are literally guaranteeing a Trump Impeachment and Criminal Prosecution. Their defense is that Trump, the President and also the Commander in Chief, ordered them to do it. #ImpeachTrump news.yahoo.com/lawyers-for-ac…
🔥The lawyers for the insurrectionists are using these arguments that can be used AGAINST Trump during the impeachment: “Am I trespassing when the highest power in the country invited me down to come on down to the Capitol?” cc @SenSchumer
“My client felt a special bond with Trump and were willing to do whatever he asked. “And on Jan. 6 my client, who had been fueled by an ongoing dialogue with other like-minded individuals, appeared to heed the call of the president to help him save our country,” cc @SenSchumer
👊“They listened to [Trump] and his cohorts speak to them in a fashion that is akin to a high school football coach on a Friday evening talking to his team and getting them all hyped up in the locker room before he runs out to the football field with them.” “Fight like Hell!”
✅ Another defense: It’s “regrettable that Ms.Williams took the president's bait and went inside the Capitol.” cc @SenSchumer
‼️🔥‼️Many attorneys have tacitly acknowledged that they are considering what is known as a “public authority” defense, namely, that their clients believed they were ACTING at the DIRECTION of the PRESIDENT.
🔥“It’s a legitimate, rational basis for these people, [who] in most instances would've been home, going about their daily lives, had the MOST POWERFUL man, arguably in the WORLD but certainly the country, not said, ‘Come on down, make your voice heard, come to the Capitol.’”
🗣Insurrectionists and lawyers begged Trump for pardons : “he was only in the Capitol because he had hitched his wagon to Trump and felt he was answering a call from the president to go there.” “The words and invitation of a president are supposed to mean something.”@SenSchumer
Defendants believe that their FEALTY to Trump should get them leniency -reflecting a deeply rooted sense of entitlement among Trump supporters AND @GOP, who for years has projected a swaggering disregard for his own legal troubles and a penchant for pardoning his confidants.
🔥Trump telegraphed to his supporters that he and they are beyond reproach, castigating investigations as witch hunts or hoaxes. “Impunity is something that has been baked into Trumpism from the beginning,” so the #TrumpCult believed they could get away with storming the Capitol.
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