37 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Republicans defend Trump ahead of impeachment trial by blaming Nancy Pelosi for Capitol riot

GOP shifts blame to Democrats for Capitol riot, call impeachment a “diversionary operation”

As Donald Trump's second impeachment trial looms near, bringing the former president's incitement of insurrection into greater focus once again, members of the GOP are –– in another ambitious act of baseless conspiracy –– deflecting blame onto their Democratic counterparts for the riot and framing impeachment as a "diversionary operation" meant to distract from Democratic culpability. 

The idea that Democrats, who were chiefly targeted by rioters themselves, are responsible for the riot, is not entirely novel. Shortly after the Jan. 6 riot, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, tried to put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, under scrutiny, asking in an interview with Fox News, "Where was Nancy Pelosi? It's her job to provide Capitol security." 

A month later, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Senator Ron Johnson, R-WI, are now taking Graham's cue, leading the charge to position their Democratic colleagues as enablers of the insurrection.

Republicans defend Trump ahead of impeachment trial by blaming Nancy Pelosi for Capitol riot | Salon.com

Hard to believe that some people are dumb enough to believe this narrative.    Upon reflection.....never mind.

Insiders at the GOP report that there is a need to defend Trump because if they do not, no future GOP president would dare to do what Trump has done to favour Republicans, their donors and supporters with illegal acts. An impeachment and conviction would end the erosion of legal process and responsibility that began with Nixon and continued with Reagan and Bush 2. Ignoring of all the illegal stuff that Bush 2 and his cronies has led directly to the Trump abuses of power and confirm that the president of the US is above the law and not hampered by it.

They should make the removal vote secret. I bet you'd get the 17 GQP votes.

I hope that witnesses are called to publicly testify under oath as to the full extent of Trump's culpability and insane arrogance and constitutional experts are called to testify as to the complete fallacy of the Trump defenders' defences of his actions. Then, if the GOP senator apologists want to acquit him in the face of all that evidence, they will stand exposed as the frauds and conspirators they are.

Watching the CNN coverage of the Trump impeachment trial and the supercut being shown in the Senate is devastatingly ugly.

52 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Watching the CNN coverage of the Trump impeachment trial and the supercut being shown in the Senate is devastatingly ugly.

So far, prosecutors are completely ignoring the fake "non constitutional" issue.   Correct.

Doesn't matter what the evidence show, most Republicans aren't listening and have already made their minds to acquit, as for the rest of their lives they should be reminded and ridiculed as they are on the side of wanna be dictator to take hold and try to retain power by any mean possible including violence

‘Can’t afford to lose’: Drudge Report takes on Trump

The Drudge Report, a staple of conservative power brokers and right wing political leaders for decades, slowly turned anti-Trump starting late last year, stunning GOP stalwarts.

Following The New York Times' bombshell about the president paying just $750 in federal taxes in 2016 and 2017, and no taxes for 15 out of 20 years, the Drudge Report on Monday just destroyed Trump.

The Drudge Report is essentially a link aggregator, rewriting headlines and combining links to create a very clear picture of what they want readers to see.

Here's how it looks right now:

"LOST MORE MONEY THAN MADE?" reads one headline from the top of Drudge, about the Times' exposé. "FINANCED EXTRAVAGANT LIFESTYLE WITH USE OF BUSINESS

Report reveals how Trump's team conspired to protect his interests as COVID-19 ransacked the US
   
Former President Donald Trump's administration is under fire for hindering the government's pandemic response and rolling back Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coronavirus mitigation guidelines in an effort to protect his interests.

According to CNBC News, the latest reports stem from documentation compiled during the House Oversight investigation launched back in September 2020. Based on the documents, the Trump administration is said to have intentionally suppressed COVID-19 testing by rolling back the CDC guidelines.

To justify the scaling back of COVID testing, former Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) scientific advisor Paul Alexander argued there was little significance in testing asymptomatic individuals, according to emails obtained by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.

Report reveals how Trump's team conspired to protect his interests as COVID-19 ransacked the US - Alternet.org

Here is link to the powerful video presented to the US Senate:

Watch: House impeachment managers' damning video links Trump's 'Stop the Steal' speech to the Capitol siege - Alternet.org

Where does Trump find these lawyers, not that he is going to pay them anyways, if they were my lawyers I would change my plea to guilty

Just now, bustamente said:

Where does Trump find these lawyers, not that he is going to pay them anyways, if they were my lawyers I would change my plea to guilty

If I were Trump's lawyer, I would want my retainer up front, and a big one, too. The yahoos who presented arguments at the impeachment mistook volume for cogent arguments. Won't affect the outcome, though but I would love to be wrong about that.

The second Trump lawyer Schoen said he didn't work the Sabbath, which made the leaders of the Senate rearrange the schedule, then he changed his mind and said he would just not show up on Saturday, after todays performance isn't that a win, having a game plan of we can't defend what Trump did but we shouldn't be here in the first place is just stupid.

Edited February 9, 20214 yr by bustamente

15 hours ago, bustamente said:

Where does Trump find these lawyers, not that he is going to pay them anyways, if they were my lawyers I would change my plea to guilty

He drained the swamp and this is what was left over. 

WASHINGTON — A man who authorities say is a leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and helped to organize a ring of other extremists and led them in the attack last month at the U.S. Capitol has held a top-secret security clearance for decades and previously worked for the FBI, his attorney said Monday.

Thomas Caldwell, who authorities believe holds a leadership role in the extremist group, worked as a section chief for the FBI from 2009 to 2010 after retiring from the Navy, his lawyer, Thomas Plofchan, wrote in a motion urging the judge to release him from jail while he awaits trial.

time online.

https://time.com/5937535/us-capitol-riot-fbi-oath-keepers/

In the end I could represent Trump not say a word eat a ham sandwich put my feet up on the desk and text during the trial and still win, that's how broken America is

It's one thing to be Trump's galley slaves.....another to voluntarily keep the chains around their necks.   Stupidity and cowardliness are a bad mix, indeed....

Hayley Miller

REPORTER/ 

2 hours ago

Capitol security footage never before seen by the public will be shown during the prosecution's presentation this week, senior aides on the impeachment managers' team told reporters on a call this morning. The footage will provide new insight into the "extreme violence that everyone suffered" and "the threat that it could have led to further violence and death to many," 

Edited February 10, 20214 yr by Tracker

4 hours ago, Tracker said:

Hayley Miller

REPORTER/ 

2 hours ago

Capitol security footage never before seen by the public will be shown during the prosecution's presentation this week, senior aides on the impeachment managers' team told reporters on a call this morning. The footage will provide new insight into the "extreme violence that everyone suffered" and "the threat that it could have led to further violence and death to many," 

What is the threshold for these 50 GOP senators in how many needed to die for them to be contrite and hold Trump accountable?

Ridiculous.  

This is a great show that the impeachment managers are putting on, to bad hardly any Republican Senators are listening, Blanche has already said what everyone knows Trump will be acquitted, then Trump will go on the friendly media stations crow how he beat conviction again and start all this garbage all over again 

On 2021-02-09 at 3:06 PM, bustamente said:

where does Trump find these lawyers

four seasons landscaping and  law school correspondence course diploma, includes one month free gas for mower.

55 minutes ago, Mark F said:

four seasons landscaping and  law school correspondence course diploma, includes one month free gas for mower.

...used car lots, fly by night bankers and bookkeepers with green eyeshades and fedora hats.

Edited February 11, 20214 yr by do or die

 

Forty Percent of America’s Coronavirus Deaths Were Avoidable: Lancet Study

Reuters
Around 40 percent of the Americans who have been killed by COVID-19 might have lived if better political decisions had been made before and during the pandemic, according to a new Lancet study. The paper, titled Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era, rips into former President Donald Trump, saying he “brought misfortune to the USA and the planet.” It describes Trump’s response to COVID as “inept and insufficient,” though it says the roots of the nation’s public-health problems go much deeper. Mary Bassett, a Lancet commission member and director of Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, told The Guardian: “The U.S. has fared so badly with this pandemic, but the bungling can’t be attributed only to Mr. Trump, it also has to do with these societal failures.” The paper estimates that, had America’s virus death toll matched up with the rates in other high-income G-7 countries, some 40 percent of deaths could have been avoided. Almost 470,000 Americans have died so far.