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Kimberly Wehle

11 Feb, 8 tweets, 4 min read

@glennkirschner2

Some more takeaways from impeachment today: 1/ Lots of focus on the former VP - @glennkirschner2 just said on my IGTV show #SimplePolitics that House impeachment managers seem to be making a case that Donald Trump engaged in a conspiracy to attempt to murder #MIKEPENCE.

@HawleyMO

/2 Senators are biased jurors but also lived through the trauma; this presentation is putting them back on Jan. 6 at an emotional level, though some Republicans (@HawleyMO) reported failure to even watch the evidence. Will this change minds? Awaken hearts?

/3 It is excruciatingly clear that the Capitol Police and DC police department were abandoned by Donald Trump and left for hours to fight unaided for their lives. Republicans who vote to acquit can no longer claim to be on the side of law enforcement, period.

@glennkirschner2

/4 The videos and eloquent speeches are persuasive, but will we see witnesses? @glennkirschner2 said on my IGTV show #SimplePolitics that after 50 murder trials, he believes that bringing in family members of the victims - here, 7 lives lost - could be pivotal.

/5 House impeachment managers' side-by-side, split screen showing of Trump's tweets and speeches at the same time the Capitol was under siege shows beyond question that he condoned this disaster, at a minimum. Goes to intent.

@washingtonpost

/6 We saw @washingtonpost article clips about how folks around Trump, eg., Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump, begged him to put an end to the carnage. Trump allies, including @kevinomccarthy, @ChrisChristie, and @MickMulvaney publicly called on him to make it stop-as only he could do.

7/ For hours, Trump didn't lift a finger to help the thousands who were fighting for their lives. No national guard, no federal law enforcement, no tweets to followers to stop bludgeoning law enforcement and defacing the Capitol. #Sociopathy.

8/ Pence, not Trump, called the National Guard. After 4 years of taking Trump's abuse and cleaning up after him, Pence will go down in history as the closest thing we had to a president on 1/6. /end

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Kimberly Wehle

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10 Feb

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Here are some key takeaways from @RepRaskin's formidable argument today: 1/ Trump's defense is that what he did was "totally appropriate" so the parties are proceeding on the joint assumption that it would happen again if he were re-elected in 2024;

/2 Trump's 12/19/20 tweet telling supporters to "be there" and that it will "be wild" on 1/6 expressly singled out the day - 1/6 - *because of" the counting of electoral college votes that day, which goes to knowledge and intent;

/3 Trump urged his supporters on 1/6 to "fight like hell," pointing to the Capitol, and *hell came* to the Capitol. This is a 1+1=2 definition of incitement of insurrection (rhetorically at least);

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Kimberly Wehle

@kimwehle

7 May 20

Let's not forget Judge Sullivan's words about #MichaelFlynn: “This is a very serious offense,” “Arguably, you sold your country out.” Flynn is “an unregistered agent of a foreign country, while serving as the national security adviser to the president of the United States.”

“[Flynn] was a high-ranking government official, advising the president of the United States,” Sullivan said. “I’m not hiding my disgust, my disdain, for this criminal offense.”

“I can’t promise you a sentence that involves no jail time." “You understand why” I was concerned, the judge told Flynn’s attorney Robert Kelner. “This sounds like a backpedaling on the acceptance of responsibility.”

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Kimberly Wehle

@kimwehle

7 Nov 18

The AG “may remove a Special Counsel for misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause, including violation of Departmental policies.” And the AG has to explain why in writing./2

Rosenstein has said there are no grounds for removal, and an acting AG (Whitaker) is not the AG, so removal likely has to wait until a new AG is confirmed, so Mueller should be safe for now./3

That said, Trump defies norms, conventions and laws, so firing Rosenstein and Mueller in defiance of the law is not out of the question. Congress would have to act. /4

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