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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDersh seems to be conducting a con law class.
Not spending a lot of time rebutting the facts of Trump's impeachment or offering exculpatory evidence. It's like he is having a debate with himself.
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)he reminds me of an older Kornacki with the waving of arms
PJMcK
(21,921 posts)Kornacki makes sense.
Dershowitz, not so much.
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)and I don't read lips...
so the content of what he is saying is lost... not that it WOULD make sense even if I could hear it.
PJMcK
(21,921 posts)...no one can read Trump's tweets.
and all I see are hands waving like an octopus
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)elleng
(130,149 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)mostly, like you say, they are opining on the rules, or attacking the Bidens, or praising Rudy.
Distractions. The problem with this format of trial, there is no real rebuttal of the defense presentation.
LiberalFighter
(50,502 posts)capechacon
(91 posts)he IS wearing a nice suit and sounds very scholarly.....BUT there can be no doubt that his brain is in orbit around some distant planet.
I mean other than esoteric nonsense, WTF is he droning on about? And, at this point does anyone understand what he's saying? Or really what does all this have to do with anything? Or even care?
Excuse me while I go abuse my TV if he's still railing on.....
lastlib
(22,981 posts)Uranus, I would guess....well, actually, HISanus. And it appears he's penetrated the black hole and riding a brown dwarf thru the wormhole........
jmg257
(11,996 posts)He is giving every Repug an easy way to say there are/were no grounds.
applegrove
(118,020 posts)So all that matters is what the talking heads say about his argument. Looks like the lawyers are not impressed.
Xolodno
(6,333 posts)...just to say to be impeached and removed from office, there has to be a law, statute, etc. cited as being broken by the President.
Which in my view is bullshit. Congress authorized the aid to Ukraine and the Executive branch was required to implement it, IMPOTUS trying to attach an extra condition not authorized by Congress is a violation.