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12 Feb, 15 tweets, 2 min read
I was right. "Lawyer" starts out with name-calling and an insistence that trial is "unconstitutional". He's saying Trump's 1/6 speech was rather bland, and pretending that was the only thing the House managers talked about, and the managers were "slanderous."

Bilious bullshit.
"Lawyer" is arguing that since there were objections raised by Democrats to some of the vote counts in 2016, that means Trump didn't engage in sedition.

I'm not sure how that logic works.
Now they're running a Trump campaign commercial.
A bunch of whataboutism, contrasting patriotic music behind Trump's racist dogwhistles about "law and order" against Democrats making firey speeches with dark music.
He went to the moronic Gym Jordan argument that Trump couldn't have instigated insurrection if the violence was gonna happen anyway (without acknowledging Trump had been encouraging and building up to that violence for close to a year).
About ten minutes in, and already he's fulfilled all of my expectations.
I think he intentionally mispronounced "Kamala" and "Ayanna".

Of course, he also referred to "incitement to resurrection," so it's hard to say.
Most of his presentation so far is distraction and whataboutism. No reference to the arguments and evidence presented by the House Managers.
Like all Republicans, he can't distinguish between a noun and an adjective, and he insists on referring to the "Democrat Party."
Schoen's argument is, "Democrats HATE Trump! They HATE him!! They HATE HATE HATE TRUMP! Do you hear me? They HATE TRUMP! It's all because they HATE TRUMP! It's TRUMP! and they HATE HIM! Got it? THEY HATE TRUMP!"
Schoen is claiming the House didn't give Trump "due process."

There is no "due process" consideration in either a grand jury or a House Impeachment. That's not how it works. It's like saying you can't checkmate someone in chess without holding a straight flush.
Schoen is insisting anything that was reported by the news media is false.
He's also pretending courtroom due process must be followed--after meeting with some of the jurors to plan strategy last night.
Back to THEY HATE TRUMP!!!! HATE HIM!! That's why we have to acquit Trump!! Because DEMOCRATS HATE TRUMP!!
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13 Feb
Trump's lawyers missed a really big opportunity. I think there's a reason they did.

Pundits are making a REALLY BIG DEAL over Trump's tweet on 1/6 regarding Pence, and the timing of it, and what it says about Trump.

I think they missed the boat entirely. I could be wrong.

1/16
Background (please read): The Capitol was assaulted. Anti-American invaders rampaged the halls searching for Senators and Congresspeople and the Vice President, at Trump's direction. At about 2:15 pm, Trump tried to call Senator Tuberville. (WHY HIM? No one has asked that.)

2/16
But Trump accidentally called Sen. Mike Lee instead. Lee handed the phone to Tuberville. At that moment, the Secret Service had hustled Pence out of the Senate chamber, wafting him off to a secure location, because the room was about to be overrun.

Pay attention here.

3/16
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12 Feb
Schoen is pretending courtroom "due process" must be followed--after meeting with some of the jurors to plan strategy last night.
Schoen accuses Democrats of editing videos and taking comments out of contexts, after showing edited videos of Democrats and taking their comments out of context. I guess he wanted us to know he knows what he's talking about.
Schoen is showing longer clips of Trump speeches. The additional footage doesn't help Trump's case, unless you're a racist insurrectionist.
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11 Feb
Trump's "lawyers" have said they only need one day (tomorrow) to defend Trump.

My guesses for what they'll do:

Distract, lie, distort, and deflect.

1/11
First, they will spend lots of time arguing that the trial is unconstitutional since Trump is no longer in office--even though the Senate has already voted on that and settled that question. Trump's lawyers will ignore that vote, and make the argument anyway.

2/11
Second, they will insist nothing Trump said on 1/6 was any worse than various random statement by random Democrats (elected, unelected, or retired) and civil rights activists over the years. They'll also concentrate on Trump's one reference to "peaceful" protest.

3/11
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7 Feb
You're pretending @POTUS will make money from this. You're demanding President Biden "donate every cent to charity" for a book he didn't write, one that was contracted two years before his inauguration.

That's ridiculous, @waltshaub. Do better! Apologize and sit the fuck down.
And your question--"Would anyone be publishing this book if he wasn't the president's son?"--obviously yes. The contract was signed in 2019, long before Joe Biden became president. So shove your insane innuendo up whatever orifice of yours your head is in.
And what the fuck do you mean to imply by saying Joe "supports" the publication of this book? Are you hinting at some kind of dark influence? Spell out your insane conspiracy theory, you cowardly muckweasel.
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7 Feb
I think it is significant to consider how Speaker Pelosi reacted after the 1/6 Insurrection.

We know the insurrectionists targeted her specifically. Had they found her, we know they would have assassinated her. That's not even a question.

1/5
But after the event, Speaker Pelosi didn't make a point of the the danger to herself. She repeatedly told the story of her staff, cowering in terror under a table in a conference room as the insurrectionists battered on the locked door.

2/5
Speaker Pelosi didn't make this about herself. She made it about everyone else who was threatened. She made it about the threat to America. She made it about the assault on the Capitol, the Cathedral of Democracy.

3/5
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7 Feb
If Trump or his lawyers admit he lost the election, that's a confession his Jan 6 speech was a lie, and he was intentionally inciting insurrection.

If they don't admit he lost, as LB says here, the Republican "defense" becomes moot.
I suspect what Trump and his lawyers will try to argue is that he won the election, but had it stolen from him, and Biden was inaugurated illegally--thus making Trump no longer president now, so he can't be tried (even though he was impeached before the inauguration). However....
.... arguing this way perpetuates the Big Lie that Trump told on Jan 6 (actually, that he insisted upon every day starting Nov 3). This argument is a continuation of the incitement to insurrection for which Trump was impeached in the first place.
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