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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRove: Chances of conviction rise if Giuliani represents Trump in Senate impeachment trial
BY ZACK BUDRYK - 01/17/21 10:25 AM EST
Republican strategist Karl Rove suggested on Sunday that President Trump is at higher risk of the Senate voting to convict him in his second impeachment trial if his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani spearheads his defense.
Rove said during a Fox News Sunday appearance that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells (R-Ky.) statements on the trial, in which he did not instruct Senate Republicans to vote against conviction, are a sign that every Republican senator needs to take this seriously. I think its all going to boil down to what the presidents defense is, Rove added.
Rudy Giuliani charted a very bad course in the morning papers, Rove said, pointing to comments by the attorney suggesting the president could not have incited the deadly riots at the Capitol earlier this month because his unproven claims of election theft were true. The House last week impeached Trump over his role in the rioting, making him the only president to be impeached twice.
The election fraud argument, Rove noted on Sunday, has been rejected by over 50 courts, including some Trump appointees.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/534618-rove-chances-of-conviction-rise-if-giuliani-represents-trump
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Rove: Chances of conviction rise if Giuliani represents Trump in Senate impeachment trial (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2021
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CoryTrevor
(77 posts)1. Giuliani should be arrested the second after trump loses the pardon pen
Buns_of_Fire
(17,182 posts)2. Rudy'll get him the death penalty. Whether it applies or not. nt
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)3. Maybe the only time I've ever agreed with him.
Rudy could get a client the death penalty on a jaywalking charge.
tanyev
(42,568 posts)4. Oh well.