Trump’s lawyers alleged that House impeachment executives took Trump out of context and then played rigged Democratic videos
Trump attorney David Schoen argued that the Democrats tampered with Trump’s footage: “Let me be clear – we have reason to believe that the property managers tampered with evidence and selectively edited the footage.”
Twenty minutes later, Schön played a heavily and selectively edited rigged video package by Democrats that said the word struggle:
Trump’s defense plays a ridiculously edited video of Democrats saying the word fight. pic.twitter.com/YG1SsXdiKo
– PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) February 12, 2021
Trump’s impeachment defense consisted of pulling lies, false equivalences and denial of responsibility from the standard Trump game book. Republican senators, ignoring the property managers’ careful presentation of their case, sat attentively taking in all Trump lies and topics of conversation.
During his presidency, Trump would claim that all harmful evidence of his behavior was fake. The trend continues throughout his impeachment defense. Trump attacks the evidence against him because he has no argument to deny that he spent months inciting a mob and ordering them to attack the Capitol.
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Mr. Easley is the Founder / Executive Editor, White House Press Pool, and a Congressional Correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in political science. His thesis focused on public order with a specialization in social reform movements.
Awards and professional memberships
Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Political Science Association
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