Republican Senator Bill Cassidy blasts the performance of Trump’s lawyers today: "It was disorganized, random. They talked about many things but they didn’t talk about the issue at hand… The House managers made a compelling, cogent case and the president’s team did not.”
Cassidy switched from his previous position and voted that the trial is constitutional. Longer quote:
“Anyone who listened to those arguments, the House managers were focused, they were organized, they relied upon both precedent, the constitution, and legal scholars...
“Anyone who listened to those arguments, the House managers were focused, they were organized, they relied upon both precedent, the constitution, and legal scholars...
...President Trump’s team were disorganized, they did everything but to talk about the question at hand, and when they talked about it they kind of glided over it almost as if they were embarrassed of their arguments.
...Now I’m an impartial juror. If one side’s dong a great job and the other side’s doing a terrible job on the issue at hand, as an impartial juror I’m going to vote for the side that did the great job.”
Asked what was so bad about the arguments by Trump’s lawyers, Cassidy said: “Did you listen to it? It speaks for itself.”
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