He should be assigned a public attorney if no one is willing to represent him…and that public attorney should dedicate the same amount of time and money to his case as that attorney dedicates to all the other cases in that attorney’s caseload.
It's being reported that Trump wanted his team to keep arguing that there was election fraud .... lol ,"I won by a lot!"
His lawyers wanted to argue a legitimate issue, if not necessarily very strong one. They may have a losing case, but it’s not a batshit case. Trump wanted them to argue nonsense with nothing. He’s insisting they set themselves to look stupid in a show trial. It seems they just aren’t dumb enough to be willing to shit themselves on the Senate floor at his command.
But I’m thrilled to discover he’s going to make “Massive election fraud, I really won by a lot!”, the cornerstone of his defense…for no other reason than it should keep him banned from social media for forever. Since he won’t be able to hire a lawyer any more competent than Giuliani to argue this, the entertainment value of the trial will also be considerable.
The majority of Republicans have already shown that they are willing to acquit Trump on constitutional grounds, however weak. But Trump arguing this appears to be a tacit admission that his intent was to incite insurrection, because it was justified by election fraud. This will at least place the Republicans on record for acquitting Trump on the basis of pure nonsense.
He’s got the art of “living the lie” nailed down in a way that makes crackheads jealous. Of course, as any crackhead who has ever gotten into legal trouble for “just standing on the corner, minding my own business” can tell you, that shit don’t work too good on judges.
Again, this is just Trump shooting himself in the dick. It looks like the Republicans were trying to give themselves, and him, an out here by making the argument that it’s Constitutionally impermissible to have this trial on a former president. They would acquit him and escape making a hard decision. Cowardly, but effective. He is insisting on full exoneration though, and arguing that not only was he not responsible for the violence on 1/6, but since he wants to argue that the election was stolen, that such violence was actually justified. Hence removing the GOP, and his, cowardly way out.
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