GOV/MIL Main "Second Impeachment" Thread

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Watch: Graham Asks "What Did Pelosi Know" About Capitol Riot?

THURSDAY, FEB 11, 2021 - 10:40
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

Senator Lindsey Graham suggested Wednesday that Nancy Pelosi knew about the pre-planned riot at the Capitol in January.

In an appearance on Hannity, Graham said “Here’s what I want to know: What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did she know it?”

Graham pointed to FBI communications that have revealed authorities knew there was a threat and that agitators were heading to Washington DC to start a “war”, and had placed pipe bombs in the area the night before.

Graham argued that the FBI revelations disprove the Democrats’ claim that President Trump’s speech and further comments on the 6th of January were the main cause of the unrest.

“The whole storyline, originally, was Trump created this with his speech,” Graham said.

“Now we know that people had this on their mind before he spoke. So now they’re playing this bizarre game of trying to get Trump in on it before Jan. 6…This is why you don’t want to have snap impeachments,” he added.

Referring to the show trial, Graham said that “The not-guilty vote is growing after today. I think most Republicans found the presentation by the House managers offensive and absurd.”

In an effort to prevent Democrat taking his comments out of context, Graham clarified that “We all know what happened in the Capitol was terrible. I hope everybody involved that broke into the Capitol goes to jail.”

Graham also commented on the impeachment managers’ efforts to connect Trump to the Proud Boys organisation, stating “The managers have got this cockamamie idea, an absurd theory that Donald Trump was monitoring the Proud Boys website and other far-right websites and he and [former White House Deputy Chief of Staff] Dan Scavino knew this was going to happen and they encouraged it.”

“That is Looney Tunes,” Graham urged.

 

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Reckless Rhetoric Is A Reckless Standard For An Impeachment Trial

THURSDAY, FEB 11, 2021 - 8:20
Authored by Jonathan Turley,

Below is my column in the Hill on how the second Trump impeachment could become a trial over reckless rhetoric in America. The House managers may be playing into that very danger by selecting some managers who have been criticized in the past for their own over-heated political rhetoric.

As managers were replaying the comments of former President Donald Trump from prior years to show how his words fueled divisions, critics were pointing to similar statements from the managers themselves.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the leading impeachment manager, was chided for using “fight like hell” in a 2019 interview with The Atlantic - the very words replayed repeatedly from Trump. He also used that phrase repeatedly in prior years to ramp up his supporters in fighting for Democratic control of Congress.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi blundered by appointing managers like Eric Swalwell who is notorious for his inflammatory rhetoric, in a trial where such rhetoric would be the focus of the managers. Swalwell’s comments not only include disturbing legal claims, but highly personal and offensive remarks like mocking threats against Susan Collins, R-Maine. Swalwell declared “Boo hoo hoo. You’re a senator who police will protect. A sexual assault victim can’t sleep at home tonight because of threats. Where are you sleeping? She’s on her own while you and your @SenateGOP colleagues try to rush her through a hearing.” Pelosi picked not only a member who has viciously attacked Republicans but one of the Republicans most needed by the House in this trial. If this trial boils down to irresponsible political rhetoric, the public could find it difficult to distinguish between the accused, the “prosecutors” and the “jury.”

That is the problem with a strategy that seems focused not on proving incitement of an insurrection but some ill-defined form of political negligence.


Here is the column:

Little more than one year since Donald Trump’s first impeachment, the Senate is poised to pass judgment on him again. There is, however, one notable difference in the trial that starts today: In 2020, Trump’s conduct with Ukraine turned on his words alone; this time, a vote to convict could be seen as implicating a host of others in the use of similarly reckless rhetoric — including some of his Senate “jurors.”

The search for moral clarity will be lost if Americans cannot distinguish between the behavior of the accused and that of his jury. With polls showing only half of the country favoring conviction, this trial could end up as an indictment of both sides for fueling our divisions. Impeachments were intended to be used in the clearest possible cases to secure two-thirds votes for conviction. But Congress could wind up looking like an unimpeached co-conspirator — not in the riot, but in our ongoing political discord.

The Senate will focus on words from Trump’s Jan. 6 speech that could be viewed as criminal incitement or as political exhortation. The House will ask the Senate to convict on how Trump’s words were interpreted, even if those did not actually call for violence. House impeachment managers plan to replay video of Trump urging his supporters to “fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” He also told them: “We will not be intimidated into accepting the hoaxes and the lies that we’ve been forced to believe over the past several weeks.”

The problem? Those words could be equally consistent with calling for a protest, not violence, as many groups routinely do at state and federal capitals.

While the House frames these words in the most menacing light, it barely mentions other words that reinforced a nonviolent meaning. For example, Trump told his supporters that “everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” He said the reason for the march was that “we are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.” As for those opposing any electoral vote challenge, Trump said “we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness.”

Cheering on your congressional allies is an act of free speech, not insurrection.

Yet, the House impeached Trump for inciting an actual insurrection or rebellion.

Its impeachment article does not charge him with recklessly causing a riot or threatening Congress; it alleges an effort to overthrow our government. That is the deepest possible hole to dig in the House and to fill in the Senate.

The Supreme Court has long rejected fluid standards in criminalizing speech. Indeed, a case based on this speech likely would fail in federal court. In Brandenburg v. Ohio, the Supreme Court refused to allow the criminalization of speech that actually calls for “the use of force or of law violation” unless it is imminent.

The Trump team is likely to play back similar language used by Democrats in both houses to “fight” for the country and to “retake” Congress. During Trump’s 2017 inauguration, Democrats denounced his legitimacy as riots broke out in Washington involving violent groups. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) later called on people to confront Republicans in public; Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) insisted during 2020’s violent protests that “there needs to be unrest in the streets.” Then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said “protesters should not let up” even as many protests turned violent or deadly. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has condemned fellow members as effectively traitors and the “enemy within.” She was criticized last year for stating, in the midst of violent protests, that “I just don’t know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country. Maybe there will be.”

All of these Democrats insist they meant peaceful acts — and I believe them. But that is the point: Rioters sought to burn federal buildings or occupy state capitals and, in some cases, seized police stations, sections of cities, even a city hall. Democrats’ words did not cause that violence on the left. Yet, this impeachment trial invites the same or similar words to be interpreted subjectively, based on whether you believe or approve of the speaker.

Reckless rhetoric reflects our age of rage. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stood in front of the Supreme Court and, citing two justices by name, declared menacingly: “Hey, Gorsuch. Hey, Kavanaugh — you’ve unleashed a whirlwind. And you’re going to pay the price.” Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) seemed to defend the recent violent takeover of a St. Louis prison by tweeting the words of Martin Luther King that “a riot is the language of the unheard.” Nor is this limited to Washington: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) defended state Rep. Cynthia Johnson (D) who called for “soldiers” to “make [Trump supporters] pay” for criticizing and harassing her.

Fired FBI director James Comey has been given to reckless rhetoric, too. He recently said: “The Republican Party needs to be burned down … It’s just not a healthy political organization.” Likewise, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin declared that “We have to collectively, in essence, burn down the Republican Party. We have to level them because if there are survivors, if there are people who weather this storm, they will do it again.” Since the Republican National Committee was targeted with a pipe bomb on Jan. 6, would that constitute incitement to arson or violence? Not under Brandenburg.

Such rhetoric even extends to academics, who historically abhor violence. One professor recently called for more Trump supporters to be killed. Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis, who writes for the site Lawyers, Guns, and Money, said he saw “nothing wrong” with the killing of a conservative protester — a view defended by other academics.

While they are not the president, the fact is that politicians, pundits and professors regularly engage in more direct, violent speech than what Trump said on Jan. 6. While certainly not responsible for the disgraceful riot in the Capitol, many of them remain accessories to stoking our politics of hate and division. Many of their statements have been defended as appropriate calls to action to combat great social injustice. The question is whether we want shifting majorities to decide whether a statement is inciteful or insightful — a dangerously fluid standard.

 

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***Live Updates*** Trump Impeachment Trial Day Three

Former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial continues on Thursday. House Managers will have around eight more hours to present their case against the former president. | Politics

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***Live Updates*** Trump Impeachment Trial Day Three
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Former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial continues on Thursday. House Managers will have around eight more hours to present their case against the former president.

Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates.

All times Eastern.
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3:40 PM: Neguse asks if it was foreseeable that there would be violence if Trump lit the match. He says “of course it was.” He says when Trump stood up at the podium he knew that many in the crowd were “inflamed,” “armed,” and “ready for violence.” He adds that “everybody knows” that Trump lit the match while “standing in the powder keg.” He plays Trump’s words at the “stop the steal” rally.

“It’s pretty simple. He said it, they did it,” Neguse says. He adds that “they were doing this for him” because “he asked them to.” Neguse says many Republicans immediately realized Trump alone could call it off because he had incited the mob.

3:30 PM: Lieu says Trump has no due process argument to make. Lieu says the House was ready to begin trial but the Senate was not in session. He says he heard that if the clerk had attempted to deliver the articles of impeachment, the clerk would have been rejected, and that is why Trump’s due process argument is “meritless.”

3:17 PM: Raskin says it is unthinkable a president who swears allegiance to a foreign government and advocates replacing the Constitution with a totalitarian government can’t be impeached. He says the first amendment protect regular citizens but the president is different. Raskin says nobody in America would be protected by the First Amendment if they did everything Trump did/said because it is a “classic case of incitement.”

House impeachment manager Rep. Raskin on Pres. Trump's legal defense: "Incitement to violent insurrection is not protected by free speech. There is no First Amendment defense to impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. The idea itself is absurd." Trump impeachment trial live updates: Managers focus on Trump's 'lack of remorse' pic.twitter.com/YF4mbn3gd1
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) February 11, 2021

3:06 PM: Neguse now up, saying that Trump would like Senators to believe that everything he did was okay and will be okay for future presidents to do again while the Constitution forbids them from doing anything to stop that. “That can’t be right,” he says. “And it isn’t right.” He says they are concerned not with the facts, but with an “alternative set of facts.” He says Trump lit a match and aimed it straight at Congress.

3:05 PM: Castro says the country needs Senators who have served in the Armed Forces one more time. He says failing to convict Trump would mean fewer people will see America as the North Star for freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. He says to convict Donald Trump will mean America stands for the rule of law, no matter who violates it.

2:50 PM: Castro says the Senate floor is sacred along with its traditions. He says history has been made on the floor, and now law enforcement agencies have the burden to figure out what was stolen, ransacked, compromised. He says these investigations are necessary now “because of the actions” of Trump. He says every foreign adversary thinking about attacking the U.S. saw a “dress rehearsal” and how easy it was to penetrate. Castro says Trump allowed the Chinese government to make a false equivalency between the Hong Kong demonstrators and the rioters.

2:45 PM: Trial resumes as Castro is now up to talk about the damage to America’s national security and standing in the world because of the insurrection Trump incited. He says some of the supporters in the mob had been on the FBI watch list and the national terrorist database. He says one insurrectionist may have intended to steal information and give it to the Russians.

2:11 PM: Senate now in recess for about 15 minutes.

2:09 PM: Cicilline says Trump incited a mob because he was trying to “become a king” to “rule over us.”

2:06 PM: Cicilline playing videos of the damage the Trump mob caused because they had no respect for the Capitol building. He is citing example after example of the Trump mob defiling the Capitol. He says the “damage done to the building is a stain upon all of us.”

2:00 PM: Cicilline detailing all of the injuries Capitol police officers suffered because of the insurrection Trump “incited.” He asks Senators to listen to how the “Trump mob” is cursing at and pushing police officers. “So much for backing the blue,” Cicilline says.

Rep. David Cicilline: "Trump chose himself above the people, above our institutions, above our democracy, above all of you." #ImpeachmentTrial pic.twitter.com/gnIOG5txyV
— Forbes (@Forbes) February 11, 2021

1:42 PM: Cicilline up to talk about the harm Trump has done to the “democratic process.” He plays reactions from Members of Congress after the riot. He says Trump’s true north star is not the country’s well-being but “Trump first.”

Rep. David Cicilline: "Never did any of us imagine that we or our colleagues would face mortal peril by a mob riled up by the president of the United States, the leader of the free world." pic.twitter.com/nQmbRXuhw5
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) February 11, 2021

1:20 PM: DeGette back up to show how the insurrectionists were “emboldened” and planned to attack the inauguration. She says there was a rise in threats after January 6, including threats against the inauguration. She says the insurrectionists believed they were “following Trump’s orders” and their actions were “patriotic.” She says they were all emboldened because Trump convinced them that their actions were the “pinnacle of patriotism.” She says they are here not to punish Trump but to prevent the seeds he planted from bearing any more fruit.

Rep. Diana DeGette shows a clip of Trump speaking on Jan. 7.
He says: "And to all of my wonderful supporters, I know you are disappointed but I also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning." pic.twitter.com/sygIPnHpPp
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) February 11, 2021

1:15 PM: Lieu pointing out Republicans who criticized Trump as “un-American” and officials who resigned after January 6. Lieu says Trump’s “lack of remorse” will undoubtedly cause future harm. Lieu says he is not afraid Trump will run in four years. He fears Trump will run again in four years and lose because he could do this again.

Red. Ted Lieu: "We're all aware that a violent mob murdered a police officer. It took President Trump three days before he lowered the flag of the United Sates of America –– three days." pic.twitter.com/pnT1yTbl9o
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) February 11, 2021

1:02 PM: Lieu says Trump doesn’t deserve a “mulligan” because he didn’t make a “mistake.” He says people show “remorse” if they made a “mistake” and Trump never did. Lieu says Trump only showed “defiance” and was telling us that he would do this again. Lieu says Trump still has not said that the election was not stolen, and that is why there are still National Guardsmen outside the Capitol.

Rep. Lieu: "You know, I'm not afraid of Donald Trump running again in four years. I'm afraid he's going to run again and lose. Because he can do this again." LIVE COVERAGE: Democrats to conclude case against Trump pic.twitter.com/Ff7eYdYioX
— The Hill (@thehill) February 11, 2021

12:56 PM: Lieu up to talk about Trump’s “total lack of remorse.” Lieu says Senators must hold Trump accountable to “send a message” that is it never okay to incite violence against Members of Congress. Lieu says Trump never condemned the attack on January 6. He says Trump called the rioters “special.”

Lieu says, as a veteran, he finds is “dishonorable” that Trump never tried to protect Members of Congress with the National Guard and then later tried to take credit for it. He says Trump is just “shameful.”

12:55 PM: Raskin asks if they would bet that Trump would not incite more violence if he ever gets back in office. He says Senators will have no one to blame but themselves if that happens.

Rep. Raskin continued with Trump's response to the kidnapping plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, inflaming anger against her even after he knew she was in danger—in a pattern of incitement.
"Trump knew exactly what he was doing in inciting the Jan. 6th mob." pic.twitter.com/BMJK92xZxm
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) February 11, 2021

12:40 PM: Raskin says Trump often “condoned” violence after the fact at his rallies and adds that Trump knew how to use the “power of the mob” to advance his political objectives in states like Michigan. Raskin says Trump criticized Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Twitter and called for “mass mobilization” of his supporters, and it was a sign of things to come. Raskin says after Trump’s “Liberate Michigan” tweet, armed supporters stormed Michigan’s House chamber building. He says this was a “dress rehearsal” for January 6, as the supporters carrying confederate flags looked like the rioters and insurrectionists on January 6. Raskin says Trump continued to incite the mob against Whitmer, and conspirators later planned to kidnap and “assassinate” Whitmer. He says Trump never condemned the plotters.

"The siege of the Michigan State House was effectively a state-level dress rehearsal for the siege of the U.S. Capitol that Trump incited on January 6th.
President Trump refused to condemn the attacks…he upheld the righteousness of his violent followers' cause."
– @RepRaskin
— Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) February 11, 2021

12:30 PM: Raskin says DeGette explained in “chilling detail” how the insurrectionists did what Trump told them to do. He claims Trump “cultivated” extremist insurrectionist groups to ready them for their most “dangerous mission”–to keep Trump in office. Raskin says Trump “road-tested” tactics for January 6. He talks about Trump’s “pattern and practice” of “inciting violence.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin: "But no matter how many people inside and outside government begged him (Trump) to condemn extreme elements promoting violence, and indeed civil war in America and race war in America, he just wouldn't do it." pic.twitter.com/HFPbQMFD2x
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) February 11, 2021

Raskin calls siege of MI Capitol a state-level dress rehearsal. pic.twitter.com/bsI3be4KaP
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 11, 2021

12:26 PM: DeGette says all of the people who have been arrested and charged are being held accountable and their “leader” who “incited them” must be held accountable as well.

12:17 PM: DeGette says insurrectionists did not think they would get in trouble because Trump ordered them to be there. She says Trump supporters who have been federally charged have said they were “only doing” what Trump asked them to do. She says many took Trump’s “stand back and stand by” comments as a “call to arms.” She says they all said what Trump said and “echoed each other” throughout the insurrection.

12:10 PM: DeGette says insurrectionists with confederate flags were yelling about “civil war” and numerous posts on Parler called for “civil war” as well. She plays more video of the crowd chanting “fight for Trump,” as they had been doing at nearly every post-election rally. She says rioters posted on social media that they were waiting to “take orders” from the president. She plays video of rioters saying that they thought Trump would be “happy.” She when Trump finally told the insurrectionists to go home, only then then some of the mob started to go home.

Rep. Diana DeGette: "He invited them with clear instructions for a specific time and place. And with clear orders. Stop the fight… to fight to stop the certification in Congress by any means necessary." pic.twitter.com/edjje4ysJp
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) February 11, 2021

12:03 PM: Raskin says Rep. DeGette (D-CO) will show how the insurrectionists believed they were following Trump’s “marching orders.” She is recalling her experience on January 6. She says she saw police officers pulling their guns as rioters tried to get on the House floor. She says she saw SWAT teams pointing automatic weapons at “marauders” on the floor as she was being escorted to safety. She says the statements of the insurrectionists make clear that the attack was done for Trump, at his instruction. She says Trump “sent them there.” She says many tagged Trump in tweets after taking photos. She plays a video of the crowd cheering after Trump says “stop the steal.” She says Trump basked after the crowd chanted “fight for Trump.” She says the crowd responded “storm the Capitol” and “invade the Capitol” after Trump told them to “show strength.”
12:02 PM:

Trump attorney David Schoen, an Orthodox Jew, to Hill reporters this morning on why he isn’t wearing a kippah during the Senate impeachment trial: “I usually try to take it off in a formal procedure, in court and in front of a jury.” https://t.co/vHkazOvL07
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) February 11, 2021

12:01 PM: Trial resumes.

11:50 AM: Trial will resume at noon. House managers reportedly do not plan to use all eight hours and will hammer home the point that Trump gleefully watched the riot and had “no remorse.”

Reporters asked Trump lawyer David Schoen if he planned on using the full 16 hours the legal team has to make their case. "Hope not," he replied.
— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) February 11, 2021

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WATCH: Rep. Jim Jordan SLAMS Democrats for manipulated video of Trump omitting his call for peaceful protest on Jan 6

Jordan noted that the emotionally wrenching video montage played by the Democrats left out key moments from Donald Trump’s speech, most notably, his call for peaceful protest.

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WATCH: Rep. Jim Jordan SLAMS Democrats for manipulated video of Trump omitting his call for peaceful protest on Jan 6

Jordan noted that the emotionally wrenching video montage played by the Democrats left out key moments from Donald Trump's speech, most notably, his call for peaceful protest.

Rep. Jim Jordan spoke to Fox Business to point out just how absurd the Tuesday impeachment proceedings were. He noted that the emotionally wrenching video montage played by the Democrats left out key moments from Donald Trump's speech, most notably, his call for peaceful protest.

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"The first amendment argument is very dangerous Stuart," Jordan said. "The president is engaged in constitutionally protected speech, speech that is protected by the first amendment, the very document that we're supposed to—that we take an oath to uphold. And they're going to try to impeach him for that.
"And then finally the fourth key point here is how does this unify the country?

How does this bring the country together? Which is what Joe Biden said he wanted to do on January 20. Again, I think the American people understand it.

"I thought it was interesting too, yesterday. The one line that wasn't in the Democrats video is the line that's most important, and that's where the president said 'peacefully and patriotically make your voice heard. They left that out wWhich I think shows where the Democrats want to go with this and what they've been up to."

Impeachment proceedings began in the Senate on Tuesday, where Impeachment Managers and defense attorneys for former President Donald Trump presented their reasons for whether or not the impeachment of a former president is actually constitutional.

During the first four hours of the impeachment hearing on Tuesday, Democrats recounted the personal ordeals they faced during the Capitol Hill riot on Jan. 6, detailing their own fears and emotional turmoil rather than present evidence that either Trump was responsible for the actions of those rioters.

The first day of the hearing was intended to determine whether proceeding with an impeachment trial for a president who is no longer president was constitutional. The vote to proceed, 56 to 44, broke down along party lines, with only six Republicans siding with Democrats on the issue of constitutionality.

Those six Republicans were Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.

 

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Impeachment blunder: Author of tweet introduced at trial says it was falsified, misinterpreted

Jennifer Lawrence says Rep. Swalwell never called her to check meaning and appears to have altered her tweet with a blue check mark. Pastor backs her up.

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Impeachment blunder: Author of tweet introduced at trial says it was falsified, misinterpreted

Jennifer Lawrence says Rep. Swalwell never called her to check meaning and appears to have altered her tweet with a blue check mark. Pastor backs her up.
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Rep. Eric Swalwell
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By John Solomon and Madison Foglio
Updated: February 11, 2021 - 3:06pm

The author of a tweet introduced by Democrats at the Senate impeachment trial said Thursday her statement "we are bringing the Calvary" was a clear reference to a prayer vigil organized by churchgoers supporting Trump and not a call for military-like violence at the Capitol riot as portrayed by Rep. Eric Swalwell.

Jennifer Lynn Lawrence also said she believes the California Democrat and House impeachment manager falsified her tweet, adding a blue check mark to the version he introduced at the trial suggesting she was a verified Twitter user with more clout when in fact her Twitter account never had a blue check and has never been verified.

"I noticed when they put my tweet on the screen that all of a sudden my tweet had a blue checkmark next to it," she said during an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast. "... This way, if he entered that into congressional testimony, it's a verified account, and it has, it could be applicable in law.

Secondly, he wanted to show that my Twitter account had more gravitas than it actually did. He wanted to show that the president was trying to use me to bring in the cavalry."

Rep. Eric Swalwell was wrong: It’s ‘Calvary,’ not ‘cavalry’

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A check of Lawrence's Twitter account shows she does not have a blue check verification. Swalwell's version of her tweet introduced at the trial did.

Swalwell's office did not immediately return a call Thursday seeking reaction.
Lawrence, a Christian conservative activist and former Breitbart writer, said her tweet on Jan. 3 carefully chose the religious word "Calvary" — which means a public display of Christ's crucifixion — as a reference to a prayer vigil they were hosting in Washington, and Swalwell distorted it to convey she was organizing a military cavalry, which is spelled differently and means a military brigade on horses.

"That's exactly what I meant," Lawrence told Just the News. "I did not mean we were bringing the cavalry. I wasn't going to hop on horseback and come riding into D.C. with my horses and my cavalry. ... And you know what we did on January 5? We held a prayer event at Freedom Plaza, and we prayed, and we brought Jesus Christ back into Washington, D.C."

"We would not want violence, we wanted people to come out and peacefully protest," she added. "... None of us engaged in protest. We were all at the Willard, you know, watching this all play out on television. We had no idea this was going to happen."

Lawrence said neither Swalwell nor any other House impeachment managers reached out to her to check what her tweet meant.

During Wednesday's impeachment trial, Swalwell introduced tweets by Lawrence and another woman named Kylie Jane Kremer who both referenced a "Calvary" coming to Washington. Trump retweeted both women. Swalwell used Lawrence's tweet to suggest it was a call to violent action, equivalent to the differently spelled military calvary.

"What did President Trump say in response to hearing that the cavalry was coming?" Swalwell argued. "'A great honor,' he wrote back. This wasn't just a single tweet. He and his organizers would do this over and over repeatedly.

"On January 3 another supporter tweets. 'We have been marching all around the country for you, Mr. President. Now we will bring it to DC on January 6, and proudly stand beside you. Thank you for fighting for us,'" Swalwell continued, referring to Lawrence's specific tweet. "When President Trump reposted her tweet, she wrote back, 'Best day ever. Thank you for the retweet. It has been an honor to stand up and fight for you in our nation. We will be standing strong on January 6 in DC with you. We are bringing the Calvary, Mr. President.'

"We are bringing the cavalry," Swalwell added for emphasis. "That was the consistent message. This was not just any old protests. President Trump was inciting something historic. The cavalry was coming."

Mixing up "Calvary" and "cavalry" is common, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

"On the battlefield, one should send in the cavalry, which is the word for an army component mounted on horseback," the dictionary clarifies. "The similarly spelled word calvary however, refers to an open air depiction of the crucifixion, or more recently an experience of intense suffering ... These two words are often confused."

Lawrence's account was backed up by a Christian church pastor, Brian Gibson, who was accompanying Lawrence and other activists on their trip to Washington at the time she wrote the tweet.

"I was sitting on the bus, and I saw Calvary come through," Gibson told Just the News. "I went back to them, and specifically said, 'Hey, guys, you spelt Calvary wrong, right?' This is what I do for a living. I'm a preacher of the gospel. I'm a theology major, so that jumped off the page at me, and words matter, and I want them to be correct. And she said, 'No pastor, I meant it. We meant to write Calvary like that. Because we were standing up for God, preaching the gospel.

We have you ministers here that are going to be praying and leading people to Christ. And so that's what that's what we mean."

Gibson, a religious freedom advocate, said he believes Swalwell badly served the trial, the country and Lawrence by falsely interpreting her meaning without checking,

"We've all learned a lesson in due diligence here, giving someone the benefit of the doubt," he said. "And I think what we're seeing, John, is a political witch hunt, where people have not crossed their t's, dotted their i's. And it's the wrong way for some of our highest elected officials in the land to behave themselves. So I'm praying for Jennifer, I'm praying for everybody that has been put in harm's way by this reckless behavior."

 

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In closing argument, impeachment managers ask senators not to let riot 'go unanswered' and convict

The Trump legal teams starting Friday will make its case before the Senate.

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In closing argument, impeachment managers ask senators not to let riot 'go unanswered' and convict

Rep. Castro: 'The world is watching us and wondering whether our constitutional republic is going to respond the way it should'


By Nicholas Ballasy
Updated: February 11, 2021 - 4:54pm

The House impeachment managers wrapped up their oral arguments on the third day of the Senate impeachment trial for former President Trump, calling on senators not to let Trump's incitement of his supporters "go unanswered."

The impeachment managers argued on Wednesday, the second day of the trial, that Trump engaged in a "months-long effort to incite" his supporters to doubt the presidential election results, leading to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

After hearing opening arguments from both sides, senators voted on Tuesday that the Senate has the constitutional authority to try a U.S. president who is no longer in office.

On Thursday, Colorado Democratic Rep. Dianna DeGette was the first to present. She played clips of rioters saying they were "fighting" for Trump.

DeGette argued the protesters carried out the riot for Trump.

"They also chanted, Fight for Trump,'" she said. "They said he had invited them, and in fact, as we had heard, he had invited them."

DeGette said the "insurrectionists" started to leave the Capitol complex after Trump tweeted a video telling them to go home.

Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, the lead impeachment manager, highlighted Trump's criticism of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer before protestors stormed the Michigan capital. Raskin said Trump continued to attack the governor after the incident took place. Raskin also said Trump did not condemn the kidnapping plot of Whitmer that was foiled by the FBI.

"Trump knew exactly what he was doing in inciting the Jan. 6 mob, exactly," Raskin said. "He had just seen how easily his words and actions inspired violence in Michigan. He sent a clear message to his supporters.

He encouraged planning and conspiracies to take over Capitol buildings and threaten public officials who refused to bow down to his political will. Is there any chance Donald Trump was surprised by the results of his own incitement?"

Raskin called on senators to draw the line.

"If we don't draw the line here, what's next?" he asked. "What makes you think the nightmare with Donald Trump and his lawbreaking and violent mob is over?

If we let him get away with it and then it comes to your state capitol or comes back here again, what are we going to say? These prior acts of incitement cast a harsh light on Trump's obvious intent, obvious intent."

Raskin continued, saying, "Trump declared his conduct totally appropriate so if he gets back into office and it happens again, we'll have no one to blame but ourselves."

California Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu cited the resignations of former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to support the Democrats' case against Trump. Both Chao and DeVos mentioned the Jan. 6 riot in their resignation letters.

"I'm not afraid of Donald Trump running again in four years," Lieu said. "I'm afraid he's going to run again and lose because he can do this again."

Texas Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro focused on the national security implications of the riot. Castro said some of the rioters were on the FBI's watch list. Castro said senators have a chance to send a message to the world that was watching Trump question the election results and incite his supporters.

"This trial is an opportunity to respond and to send a message back to the world," he said. "To convict Donald Trump would mean that America stands for the rule of law no matter who violates it. Let us show the world that January 6 was not America. And let us remind the world that we are truly their north star."

The Jan. 6 riot has "scared our reputation and damaged our standing in the world," Castro argued.

"The world is watching us and wondering whether our constitutional republic is going to respond the way it should," he said.

Colorado Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse rejected Trump's defense lawyers' arguments that Trump's rhetoric on Jan. 6 is protected by the First Amendment.

"No president, no matter the politics or the politics of their followers, conservative, liberal or anything else, no president can do what President Trump did because this is not about politics. It is about his refusal to accept the outcome of the election and his decision to incite an insurrection," he said. "There is no serious argument that the First Amendment protects that and it would be extraordinarily dangerous for the United States Senate to conclude otherwise."

Raskin said there are "legal flaws" in the First Amendment argument.

"Incitement to violent insurrection is not protected by free speech. There is no First Amendment defense to impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors.

The idea itself is absurd," he said. "The whole First Amendment smokescreen is a completely irrelevant distraction from the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors governing a president who has violated his oath of office."

Raskin added that "Trump's brazen attempt to invoke the First Amendment now won't hold up in any way" and that "this is a classic case of incitement."

Quoting the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Raskin said, "you can't ride with the cops but root for the robbers."

Raskin also quoted Voltaire: “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

As part of the managers' closing argument, Democratic Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse said the violence on that day was "totally foreseeable."

“Was violence predictable? Was it obvious that the crowd on Jan. 6 was poised for violence and prepared for it? Absolutely," he said. "It was widely recognized of the time. In the days leading up to January 6th, there were dozens, hundreds of warnings and he knew it. He knew the rally would explode if provoked. He knew all it would take, a slight push."

As Neguse concluded his presentation, he asked senators a direct question.

"If we let it go unanswered, who’s to say it won’t happen again?" he said.

Trump's defense team have its 16 hours to present a case about why the former president should be acquitted.

 

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Rep. Andy Biggs: Evidence seems to indicate Congress leadership knew of Capitol riot days before

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said that from the evidence coming out about the Capitol riot, it appears that congressional leadership had been aware of the planned attack ahead of time, but "did nothing" about it.

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Rep. Andy Biggs: Evidence seems to indicate Congress leadership knew of Capitol riot days before

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Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said that from the evidence coming out about the Capitol riot, it appears that congressional leadership had been aware of the planned attack ahead of time, but "did nothing" about it.

 

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Dershowitz: Trump defense must avoid 'trap' of debating election fraud during Senate trial

"It's a trap to have them talk about electoral fraud, because if they do, they'll lose McConnell and other senators," said Alan Dershowitz, a member of Trump's 2020 impeachment defense team.

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Dershowitz: Trump defense must avoid 'trap' of debating election fraud during Senate trial

"It's a trap to have them talk about electoral fraud, because if they do, they'll lose McConnell and other senators," said Alan Dershowitz, a member of Trump's 2020 impeachment defense team.


Video on website 1:40 min

By Carrie Sheffield
Updated: February 11, 2021 - 1:14pm

Key legal allies of former President Trump say his defense team must avoid the "trap" of debating election fraud during his Senate impeachment trial.

House impeachment managers Tuesday cited Trump statements challenging the integrity of the 2020 election in arguing that the former president engaged in a "months-long effort to incite" an "insurrection" which culminated on Jan. 6, when a pro-Trump mob forced its way past police lines into the U.S. Capitol.

House Democrats' move to frame Trump's electoral fraud claims as incitement in their impeachment narrative created an opening for Trump's defense to, in effect, put the 2020 election itself on trial before a nationwide viewing audience, as many of his supporters have urged.

Some Trump allies say his electoral fraud case has never received a full public airing due to legal challenges being tossed out on grounds of standing, timeliness and other technical issues rather than on merit.

But former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who helped lead the successful defense that gained Trump's acquittal in the 2020 impeachment trial, said this move would be "a terrible mistake" for Trump.

"It's a trap that the Democrats are trying to set for the Trump lawyers," Dershowitz told Just the News in an interview Wednesday. "It's a trap to have them talk about electoral fraud, because if they do, they'll lose [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell and other senators."

The "absolute trap," Dershowitz said, "was being set by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who is leading the Democrats' impeachment case. Raskin studied law under Dershowitz, who called his former student "a smart guy."

Multiple news outlets reported that five of Trump's defense attorneys departed the case with little more than a week until the trial was set to begin because of differences with the former president over strategy. Reportedly, attorneys Johnny Gasser, Greg Harris, Butch Bowers, Deborah Barbier and Josh Howard opted out because Trump preferred that his legal team make the case that the election was stolen through massive fraud instead of focusing on the constitutionality of a Senate trial of a private citizen.

Attorney Phill Kline, a Trump supporter and director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, has litigated many cases involving claims of electoral fraud during the 2020 election. He told Just the News that while he thinks a national conversation about electoral fraud should continue, he doesn't believe that the impeachment forum is ideal.

"This is not the forum in which any evidence of election fraud is going to be seriously considered," Kline said. "They have no interest in it. They refuse to acknowledge clear facts. And so it's the wrong audience and the wrong time."

Kline said the Trump defense team should focus on the former president's First Amendment right to speak openly and raise questions about election fraud.

"They have been trying to criminalize thought for some time now," Kline said.

"This is just the fruit of their belief that if you do not think as they do, you're a threat to the nation."

Previously, Kevin Brock, former assistant director of intelligence for the FBI told Just the News that Trump has not been prosecuted by the FBI for incitement because his words on Jan. 6 did not meet that legal definition. For speech to meet the threshold of incitement, a speaker must, first, indicate a desire for violence and, second, demonstrate a capability or reasonable indication of capability to carry out the violence, according to Brock.

In an interview last month, Brock told Just the News he listened to Trump's entire Jan. 6 speech. "I didn't hear a single word about — or anything that would trigger a reasonable person to believe that he was inciting — violence," he said. "He even used the words 'peaceful' and 'respectful.'"

Former Trump 2020 campaign adviser Jason Miller told Fox News on Wednesday that Trump is in "a great mood” after the first day of the impeachment trial.

Miller was asked about press reports that Trump was unhappy with his legal team's presentation. "The President thinks David Schoen did a very excellent job," Miller said. "Also, there were good points Bruce Castor made. There are a few things we need to tighten up."

Miller noted that in their presentation, Democrats didn't use the entire Jan. 6 speech by Trump.

"Everything is selective," Miller said. "They haven't played the clips of President Trump saying, 'Be peaceful, patriotic.'"

Asked about the Trump legal team, Stacy Washington, co-chair of the 2020 Black Voices For Trump committee, said, "It's difficult to get good help when your personal life is threatened and your family is threatened."

Any prospective Trump lawyer faced the the threat of professional blackballing, "where they're literally told, 'You take cases with the president, you'll never work again,'" Washington said. "So the president has the best legal team that he was able to get under the circumstances. And I think they did pretty well."

 

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MASTERCLASS — Trump defense team should play this video on loop during the entire Senate hearing…

Democrats make the case against themselves | AceSix4 Films

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MASTERCLASS — Trump defense team should play this video on loop during the entire Senate hearing…
Posted by Kane on February 11, 2021 4:16 pm

View: https://youtu.be/tNMtyoSibG4
2:20 min

Democrats make the case against themselves | AceSix4 Films

 

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David Schoen — ‘You will be very impressed with Trump’s defense’…

Schoen appeared last night with Laura Ingraham

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David Schoen — ‘You will be very impressed with Trump’s defense’…
Posted by Kane on February 11, 2021 2:18 pm

View: https://youtu.be/nbx864_j9iA
5:22 min
Schoen appeared last night with Laura Ingraham

 

[marsh]

The Democrats’ Video From January 6th Used As A Main Evidence At The Impeachment Trial Contains Footage Filmed By Antifa's John Sullivan - Red State Nation

Former President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated second impeachment trial began on Tuesday, just a little more than a month following the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building during Congress’ certification of the 2020 election results. In his opening statements, lead impeachment manager Jamie...

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The Democrats’ Video From January 6th Used As A Main Evidence At The Impeachment Trial Contains Footage Filmed By Antifa’s John Sullivan
By
Sarah Hall
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February 11, 2021




Former President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated second impeachment trial began on Tuesday, just a little more than a month following the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building during Congress’ certification of the 2020 election results.

In his opening statements, lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) played a video montage of the events that occurred on January 6, including the speech by Donald Trump in which he encouraged his supporters to march to protest the results at the Capitol.

Shortly after the montage aired and began working its way across the internet, Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) tweeted footage claiming it was edited to leave out Trump’s calls for peaceful protest moments before rioters stormed the Capitol.

Donald Trump Jr. also spoke out, saying the footage was “deceptively edited.”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1359206661798387718

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1359206661798387718
.11 min

The Dems video below:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1359210725357596672

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1359210725357596672
9:44 min

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) in his opening statement Tuesday said the Democrats’ case is “based on cold, hard facts.”

But they did forget to mention the fact that the video that they presented as main evidence contains footage from Antifa’s John Sullivan aka Jayden X.

Screenshot from the footage used in the opening statement below:

John Sullivan, a noted leftist leader from Utah, stormed the US Capitol with fellow activists.

The mainstream media and the fact-checkers tried to protect him and claimed that he was there only to film the whole situation.

Even far-left PolitiFact reviewed Sullivan’s video of the mob into the Capitol and Babbitt’s shooting. They say that it doesn’t show Sullivan clearly engaged in the violence or leading the run-up to the Capitol, although it does show him animated as he spoke with police and rioters from the frontlines.

At points in the video, Sullivan can be heard telling others he was only filming and discouraging violence. At other points, he appeared to encourage what was happening. As rioters scaled a wall outside, for example, he cheered them on. “We did this s—, together,” he said after the barricades came down. “This is f—— history. We’re all a part of this f—— history.”

But Desert News who made an interview with Sullivan claim that some of the 40-minute video he posted to his social media sites contradicts his assertion that he and another woman were “only filming” the actions and not participating as he can be heard in the video encouraging people to join them as they push their way through police barricades.

Sullivan has charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, interfering with law enforcement engaged in the lawful performance of their official duties incident to and during the commission of civil disorder.

John Sullivan shot to the limelight after he appeared on CNN for a chat with anchor Anderson Cooper regarding the video he had captured of Ashli Babbitt being shot by a law enforcement officer.

On CNN, he presented himself as a ‘heroic journalist’ who captured the shooting on camera.

Sullivan appeared with CNN photojournalist Jade Sacker on CNN that night.

Video below:

View: https://youtu.be/Y7PXvchh2WQ
4:05 min

CNN did not reveal that the two were working together inside the US Capitol. Jade Sacker has done work for NPR, CNN, NBC, and other liberal outlets.

Moments after Sullivan captured Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt getting shot and killed in the Capitol, a blonde woman accompanying Sullivan who appears to be his accomplice, Jade Sacker, gleefully exclaims, “We did it!”

Video below:

View: https://youtu.be/bkhr2n__uIo
.30 min

John Sullivan’s brother also stated publicly in writing and on video that he is Antifa.

Video below:

Video on website 4:27 min

In this post, Jake Sullivan puts in writing the John Sullivan is a member of Antifa.
Images below:

Also, his brother says he is working with the FBI to track down other far-left extremists involved with the Capitol Hill Riot.

John Sullivan was seen in an Antifa training video. He was the leader of the local Antifa movement.

Video below:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1350005570657464320

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1350005570657464320
2:18 min

Even after he was arrested by the FBI, not one of the mainstream media decided to change their story about Sullivan and the Dems even used his videos as evidence against Trump.

 

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HUGE: Lindsey Graham Tells Hannity The "Not Guilty" Vote GREW After Wednesday Impeachment Session

On Wednesday night, Senator Lindsey Graham told Sean Hannity that the "not guilty" vote grew on Wednesday after the House Impeachment Managers put on an "absurd" presentation. This is obviously terrible news for Democrats. "Let me tell your viewers, the not guilty vote is growing after today...

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HUGE: Lindsey Graham Tells Hannity The “Not Guilty” Vote GREW After Wednesday Impeachment Session

by Clayton Keirnsabout 17 hours agoupdated about 4 hours ago

On Wednesday night, Senator Lindsey Graham told Sean Hannity that the “not guilty” vote grew on Wednesday after the House Impeachment Managers put on an “absurd” presentation.

This is obviously terrible news for Democrats.

“Let me tell your viewers, the not guilty vote is growing after today. I think most Republicans found the presentation by the House managers offensive and absurd. We all know what happened at the Capitol was terrible,” he said.

“But I don’t remember any of these House managers saying a damn thing when they were trying to break into my house and going after Susan Collins and spitting on all of us,” he added.

Watch below:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1359698241051369472

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1359698241051369472
.33 min

Throughout the entire impeachment proceedings, the only “evidence” that Democrats have is HEAVILY-EDITED video clips that play to their narrative. They have chopped up hours of clips and spliced them together in the perfect sequence to make them look as damning as possible.

Thankfully, according to Graham, Trump’s acquittal is becoming more and more likely by the day.

Stay tuned for more as the impeachment sham unfolds…

 

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Here’s the spliced and diced ‘Capitol Siege’ video used by democrats…

This is the ‘doctored impeachment video’ that caused a Senate stir Good question, Chaffetz…

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Here’s the spliced and diced ‘Capitol Siege’ video used by democrats…
Posted by Kane on February 10, 2021 6:23 pm

View: https://youtu.be/57KllJnzYx8
13:15 min
This is the ‘doctored impeachment video’ that caused a Senate stir

Whatever ad agency that did this slice and dice video needs to be shut down. They hyped the amounts of violence there, they produced a well doctored video. Pitiful.

 

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David Schoen: Dems’ riot videos wouldn’t be ‘admissible in any kind of court of law’

Democratic impeachment managers began their trial against former President Donald Trump by showing a 13-minute graphic video of the Jan. 6 Capitol siege. Many are saying that the footage shown is not admissible in a court of law, including Trump impeachment defense attorney David Schoen. “They...

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David Schoen: Dems’ riot videos wouldn’t be ‘admissible in any kind of court of law’
Annaliese Levy

Democratic impeachment managers began their trial against former President Donald Trump by showing a 13-minute graphic video of the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.
Many are saying that the footage shown is not admissible in a court of law, including Trump impeachment defense attorney David Schoen.

“They would be thrown out of the court room for showing this video. None of this stuff would be admissible in any kind of court of law,” Schoen said on “The Ingraham Angle” Wednesday.

“It’s not only that [the Democratic impeachment team] wanted plenty of video time today, it seems like they wanted a lot of screen time for themselves. They’re clearly playing to the cameras, to the public all of the time,” Schoen said.

The Democratic impeachment team argued that the former president was “singularly responsible” for the deadly Capitol assault.

“[The Democratic impeachment team] talks about unity and healing. Showing that tape over and over again, the same slides and so on, and manipulated by them, does nothing for healing. It’s the exact opposite. It’s continuing to open wounds for the American public and it is something that President Trump condemned in no uncertain terms, the terrible violence that went on there. So there’s not an issue abut that. They’re just hoping to drum up emotion and get their last shots in at President Trump,” Schoen continued.

When asked if his team is prepared to show similar compelling videos showing that the Democrats could be said to have incited riotous behavior as well, Schoen replied, “It’s a pretty good bet.”

“I don’t commit publicly to any strategy that we’re going to use, I just don’t think it’s wise, but I think that you’ll be quite impressed with the President’s case.”

The Senate will reconvene at noon on Thursday when the prosecution will resume oral arguments

 

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WATCH: Tucker exposes Democrat lies about Jan 6th in fantastic monologue, including the truth about Officer Sicknick’s death
FEB. 10, 2021 9:51 PM BY THE RIGHT SCOOP • 126 COMMENTS


At the open of his show tonight, Tucker Carlson had a great monologue about the lies Democrats are telling about what happened on January 6th:

The monologue runs for just over 12 minutes, but you can keep watching if you want. (link broken)

The part I wanted to highlight specifically is what Tucker reported about Officer Sicknick’s death. It was reported widely that Sicknick was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher by a rioter and that he later died. But according to Tucker, that’s not what happened:

View: https://youtu.be/pBKheo3kmrc
3:14 min

In this short clip, Tucker reveals that Sicknick’s own brother said that Sicknick texted him the night of the Capitol riot, after it was over, and said that he’d been pepper sprayed twice but was in good shape. His brother then noted that Sicknick collapsed in the Capitol and that he was resuscitated with CPR. The family was told that he was in the hospital on a ventilator after having had a blood clot and a stroke.

Tucker says that there is zero evidence that Sicknick was ever ‘bludgeoned’ with a fire extinguisher despite CNN, MSNBC, and other major media outlets having reported it. And Democrats are still saying it.

This is just one of the five deaths from January 6th that was exposed by Tucker. He talks about the others as well, including that of Ashli Babbit, explaining that most of them were not what Democrats are making them out to be.

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Full segment:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1359690256446988288

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1359690256446988288
9:41 min

[COMMENT: I can see why they deep sixed the full video. It includes a scene of Ashli Babbit and ANTIFA smashing doors when they meant to show the Capitol police letting people come in.]

 

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Trump's Impeachment Trial is Not About Emotions, Even Though That is What Democrats Are Making It

The Democrats want this impeachment to be about emotions, but it should only be about the Constitution and the evidence.

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Trump’s Impeachment Trial is Not About Emotions, Even Though That is What Democrats Are Making It

by Jared Dyson
February 11, 2021



Washington, DC — On Tuesday and Wednesday, the mainstream media went crazy discussing ‘distressing’ and ’emotional’ videos that the Democrats had brought to the impeachment hearing. On Wednesday, they made a really big deal about the never before seen video of the Capitol rioters. Most said that Republican Senators were ‘moved’ by the presentations.

Nothing in this impeachment trial is about emotions or ‘moving’ someone to the point of conviction. People were emotionally moved on Sunday for the Super Bowl, but you do not see us trying to convict football fans for their passion. The same goes with church services, although the Left would seemingly like to make that illegal.

The truth is this trial is not about emotional stories and distressing remembrance. It’s about the evidence and the Constitution of the United States.

Just because a Republican Senator may feel moved, it does not give them any rights to go against the Constitution and to convict President Donald Trump in this ridiculous impeachment trial.

That is not me talking as an overblown Trump supporter. That is me simply stating the facts that there is no precedent that the Senate has any power to impeach a President that is no longer in office. The Democrats will claim this was a “bipartisan effort” with the Republicans that abandoned the rest of their party, but more on that later.

Another question that we are left with after the emotionally stirring videos is who is really on trial here? While the Democrats want to make this about President Donald Trump, the video has nothing to do with President Donald Trump. They want to claim that he “incited” the rioters, but that’s difficult to prove.

He never once said go and overthrow the Capitol and attempt to overthrow the US government. He told them to “fight like hell” which is the same words used by many people, including Joe Biden.

We also have to give consideration to what the mainstream media is calling a Republican Senator. The ones cited by nearly every website was Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and Bill Cassidy. There are really no surprises there.

Each of these Senators went against the Constitution. They made an emotionally charged decision to support the continuance of the impeachment trial. That should be enough that President Donald Trump and many others on the Right will target them in upcoming elections.

While the Democrats want to hold Trump responsible for the actions of others, it’s impossible to do so. He did not give them a direct order to attack or attempt to overthrow the government. He did not support the insurrection, multiple times tweeting that he wanted peace.

Republicans should also not feel that they must make an emotionally charged decision once again. This is not about the actions of the rioters or videos about the events of that day. This is about the actions of President Donald Trump and the Constitution of the United States.

Like him or not, the evidence is clear. Trump asked for peace and never once said overthrow the government. But you will never hear a Democrat tell you that.

 

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Video: Graham Asks ‘What Did Pelosi Know’ About Capitol Riot

Says Democrat efforts to connect Trump to Proud Boys are

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Video: Graham Asks ‘What Did Pelosi Know’ About Capitol Riot

Says Democrat efforts to connect Trump to Proud Boys are “Looney Tunes”

11 February, 2021
Steve Watson

Senator Lindsey Graham suggested Wednesday that Nancy Pelosi knew about the pre-planned riot at the Capitol in January.

In an appearance on Hannity, Graham said “Here’s what I want to know: What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did she know it?”

Graham pointed to FBI communications that have revealed authorities knew there was a threat and that agitators were heading to Washington DC to start a “war”, and had placed pipe bombs in the area the night before.

Watch:
Video on website 5:59 min

Graham argued that the FBI revelations disprove the Democrats’ claim that President Trump’s speech and further comments on the 6th of January were the main cause of the unrest.

“The whole storyline, originally, was Trump created this with his speech,” Graham said.

“Now we know that people had this on their mind before he spoke. So now they’re playing this bizarre game of trying to get Trump in on it before Jan. 6…This is why you don’t want to have snap impeachments,” he added.

Referring to the show trial, Graham said that “The not-guilty vote is growing after today. I think most Republicans found the presentation by the House managers offensive and absurd.”

In an effort to prevent Democrat taking his comments out of context, Graham clarified that “We all know what happened in the Capitol was terrible. I hope everybody involved that broke into the Capitol goes to jail.”

Graham also commented on the impeachment managers’ efforts to connect Trump to the Proud Boys organisation, stating “The managers have got this cockamamie idea, an absurd theory that Donald Trump was monitoring the Proud Boys website and other far-right websites and he and [former White House Deputy Chief of Staff] Dan Scavino knew this was going to happen and they encouraged it.”

“That is Looney Tunes,” Graham urged.

 

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This Impeachment Of Donald John Trump Is Trial By Feelings

Impeachment ought not to be done on the basis of feelings, but rather on the basis of facts and circumstances that are testable and repeatable.

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This Impeachment Of Donald John Trump Is Trial By Feelings

FEBRUARY 11, 2021 By David Marcus

The case against Donald John Trump in this, his second impeachment trial, is a curious thing. The single charge is that he allegedly incited a riot at the Capitol by contesting the results of the 2020 election. But his actions do not meet the legal definition of incitement. As we are constantly reminded, a Senate impeachment trial is not a criminal trial, so the senators can choose to define incitement however they want, but so far they haven’t.

The opening statement from the House managers was almost solely focused on feelings and emotion. At one point, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., literally broke down in tears while describing the riot. But what he did not offer was a standard by which Trump’s guilt or innocence on the charge of incitement could be based. This is very important because a precedent is being set here.

Likewise, on day two, the Democrats once again made a mainly emotional appeal, focused on video and images from the riots. The closest that Democrats came to showing Trump had encouraged the events at the Capitol was a kind of “incitement by omission.” They tried to show that he intentionally refused to tell rioters to stop once they had started.

Even if that is true, and it’s not entirely clear when Trump was tweeting about the rioters themselves and when he was tweeting about the vast majority of his supporters who stayed peaceful, it’s not incitement. You can’t incite something that already happened. Conservatives in favor of conviction have invented arguments that blend morality, patriotism, and emotion. But they are very short on facts and specifics, which mean any conviction of Trump would be a mile wide and an inch deep.

David French tweeted about the video presentation offered by the Democrats:


13:22 min

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KVUB4L1LyI&feature=emb_logo&bpctr=1613090060


I agree that convicting Trump would set a precedent, just not the one French thinks it will. Standards and precedents have to be testable and repeatable, otherwise they are but merely whims. So what standard would we be setting with this novel definition of incitement that does not exist in our law? We saw politically motivated violence from the left all summer long, much of it directed against police. Did the progressive politicians and activists who frankly spread a lot of lies about how deeply racist our police are incite that violence? It seems to me by this definition they did.

When confronted with this problem, namely that the definition of incitement is so incredibly broad here, some in favor of conviction make an appeal to the fact that the riots happened. Here is National Review’s Dan McLaughlin, one of the loudest of the conservatives for conviction:



He is comparing Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters’ 2018 call for people to get in the faces of Trump officials, to confront them in public, to Trump’s actions. His argument here is that since Waters’ call to action did not lead to immediate violence (although it certainly was a call for aggressive protest), she gets a pass for essentially doing exactly what Trump did. Under this rubric, intention becomes irrelevant. That is a very dangerous road that runs counter to centuries of Western governance. Of course intent matters, and there is not a shred of evidence that proves or even suggests that Trump intended a violent storming of the Capitol.

So if French’s argument falls apart because it could capture anyone in the future who disputes an election result, and McLaughlin’s falls apart because it is unable to grapple with the idea of intention, that really only leaves feelings and an emotional appeal. In some sense, it is like the old saw about trying to define pornography, that you know it when you see it. That’s not good enough for an impeachment conviction. It leaves wide open the door for future impeachments of disgust, where no crime or misdemeanor is committed or proven, but sufficient outrage is manufactured. That is not the purpose of impeachment. It is rather the purpose of elections, the opposite of impeachment.

Of course, emotions do play a role in politics, but the proper role for emotional appeal is as an appeal to voters, not to impeachment juries. If the Senate convicts Trump and bars him from running even though 75 million people voted for him, it would be one of the most anti-democratic actions ever taken by the federal government. That ought not to be done on the basis of feelings, but rather on the basis of facts and circumstances that are testable and repeatable.

Trump’s defense team and Republican senators should not now hide behind the process question of whether you can convict a former president. They should defend directly against the charge of incitement and resoundingly reject this new, vague definition of the word. Further, they should make absolutely clear that questioning the outcome of an election or seeking to fix alleged problems with voting methods must never be considered an offense of any kind, let alone an impeachable one.

The facts of this case are not on the Democrats’ side. The feelings might be, but that must not be allowed to be sufficient. Republicans in the Senate and beyond must show resolve here in the face of furious outrage from those who have been outraged by Trump since before he even took office. Republicans must summon the strength they learned from Trump and stand against this scurrilous impeachment.

 

[marsh]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQpO7TatR34
9:27 min
If they'll lie about this... Sebastian Gorka on AMERICA First

•Feb 11, 2021


America First with Sebastian Gorka

Sebastian reacts to the ongoing third day of the impeachment trial, and tells his viewers how fellow patriots can maintain hope in these trying times.

 

[marsh]

TRUTH: Former Ohio Treasurer and 2022 Senatorial Candidate Josh Mandel Claims 2020 Election Stolen from Trump | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Former Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel told WKYC President Trump won the 2020 election and time will prove him right.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

TRUTH: Former Ohio Treasurer and 2022 Senatorial Candidate Josh Mandel Claims 2020 Election Stolen from Trump

By Jim Hoft
Published February 11, 2021 at 3:13pm

Former Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel told WKYC President Trump won the 2020 election and time will prove him right.

Josh Mandel is running for Senator of Ohio in 2022.

View: https://youtu.be/TYl5LNisb4w
4:07 min



Mandel was one of the first politicians to support candidate Trump in 2016.

WKYC reported:

Former two-term Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel became the first Republican to formally declare a candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by party-mate Rob Portman, who announced recently he will not seek re-election next year.

In an on-camera interview with 3News, Mandel pledged to carry on former President Donald Trump’s agenda. Repeating lines nearly verbatim from his campaign press release, Mandel said the Trump’s second impeachment pushed him into action.

“I’ve been watching this sham and unconstitutional impeachment, and it’s really made my blood boil and it’s motivated me to run for the U.S. Senate,” he said. “I want to go to Washington to stand up for the Trump ‘America First’ agenda.”

At the heart of the impeachment trial is whether Trump incited the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol as Congress began to certify the Electoral College votes. Trump urged his supporters in the months leading up to and on the day itself to challenge the results based on unfounded claims that widespread fraud tipped the election to his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden.

Mandel said time will prove that Trump won the election.

 

[marsh]

CNN Is Now Comparing Capitol Riots where Trump Supporters Were Killed to Rwandan Genocide | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

CNN’s Anderson Cooper compared the US Capitol riot to the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

CNN Is Now Comparing Capitol Riots where Trump Supporters Were Killed to Rwandan Genocide

By Jim Hoft
Published February 11, 2021 at 4:48pm

CNN’s Anderson Cooper compared the US Capitol riot to the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides.

Four Trump supporters were killed in the riots. One Trump supporter was shot dead in cold blood and we still don’t know the name of the shooter.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1359328430664388611

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1359328430664388611
.50 min

For the record… Democrat Susan Rice was widely blamed for being a bystander during the Rwandan genocide.

But facts don’t matter to these people.

Candace Owens weighed in.

 

[marsh]

Loudmouth Daughter of Infamous War-Monger Compares Capitol Riots to 9-11 Terror Attacks that Killed 3,000 Americans | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Meghan McCain is the loudmouth daughter of Trump-hater John McCain.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Loudmouth Daughter of Infamous War-Monger Compares Capitol Riots to 9-11 Terror Attacks that Killed 3,000 Americans

By Jim Hoft
Published February 11, 2021 at 5:20pm

Meghan McCain is the loudmouth daughter of Trump-hater John McCain.
John McCain was an infamous warmonger.

Here is a map of the many countries John McCain called for US military intervention.

John McCain did not see a potential military operation he did not promote.

On Thursday, John’s daughter Meghan McCain compared the January 6th Capitol Hill riot to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

McCain said that the two events were “really comparable,” arguing that both were the type of event that forced a shift in paradigms for many who lived through the experience.

** 3,000 Americans died in the 9-11 attacks on America.
** 4 Trump supporters were killed and one police officer perished after the US Capitol riots.

This is they type of garbage the left is pumping out these days.
Meghan McCain is dumb enough to join in the awfulness.

View: https://youtu.be/ObpwgVDlTYw
2:44 min

 

[vector7]

WATCH: Tucker exposes Democrat lies about Jan 6th in fantastic monologue, including the truth about Officer Sicknick’s death
FEB. 10, 2021 9:51 PM BY THE RIGHT SCOOP • 126 COMMENTS


At the open of his show tonight, Tucker Carlson had a great monologue about the lies Democrats are telling about what happened on January 6th:

The monologue runs for just over 12 minutes, but you can keep watching if you want. (link broken)

The part I wanted to highlight specifically is what Tucker reported about Officer Sicknick’s death. It was reported widely that Sicknick was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher by a rioter and that he later died. But according to Tucker, that’s not what happened:

View: https://youtu.be/pBKheo3kmrc
3:14 min

In this short clip, Tucker reveals that Sicknick’s own brother said that Sicknick texted him the night of the Capitol riot, after it was over, and said that he’d been pepper sprayed twice but was in good shape. His brother then noted that Sicknick collapsed in the Capitol and that he was resuscitated with CPR. The family was told that he was in the hospital on a ventilator after having had a blood clot and a stroke.

Tucker says that there is zero evidence that Sicknick was ever ‘bludgeoned’ with a fire extinguisher despite CNN, MSNBC, and other major media outlets having reported it. And Democrats are still saying it.

This is just one of the five deaths from January 6th that was exposed by Tucker. He talks about the others as well, including that of Ashli Babbit, explaining that most of them were not what Democrats are making them out to be.

________________________

Full segment:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1359690256446988288

View: https://twitter.com/i/status/1359690256446988288
9:41 min

[COMMENT: I can see why they deep sixed the full video. It includes a scene of Ashli Babbit and ANTIFA smashing doors when they meant to show the Capitol police letting people come in.]

RT 1min

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1348859507695349763

View: https://twitter.com/_____Tweety____/status/1348859507695349763

 

[Chance]

Trumps lawyers doing pretty good so far. Like their videos.

 

[Sicario]

Trumps lawyers doing pretty good so far. Like their videos.

AWESOME video montages! Two can play at that game.

 

[Cacheman]

Can you even imagine how many thousands of hours of video the defense team had to watch to pull out the fight clips?

 

[marsh]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrTUGVlz1i8
LIVE

LIVE: President Trump Impeachment Trial: Day 4
•Started streaming 6 hours ago


Right Side Broadcasting Network

Friday, February 12, 2021: President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial will resume in the Senate on Friday. NOTE: We're offering this coverage because it's important the people hear President Trump's defense! We obviously do not support impeaching our great 45th President. President Trump Impeachment Trial LIVE- Day 4 2/12/21

 

[marsh]

EPIC! Trump's Defense Team ABSOLUTELY RUINS Democrats With 13 Minute Montage of Liberals Doing the Same Thing They Accused Trump of Doing (Video) | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

The Democrats demonized President Trump for using the word ‘fight’. Trump’s attorneys responded today with a collage of clips from each of the Democrats in the room using the word ‘fight’.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

EPIC! Trump’s Defense Team ABSOLUTELY RUINS Democrats With 13 Minute Montage of “Fight” Word Like Trump Did! (Video)

By Joe Hoft
Published February 12, 2021 at 12:48pm

The Democrats demonized President Trump for using the word ‘fight’. Trump’s attorneys responded today with a collage of clips from each of the Democrats in the room using the word ‘fight’.

This portion of today’s events on Capitol Hill was excellent. The Democrats claim that because President Trump used the word ‘fight’ in his speech on January 6th in Washington D.C. However, what every Democrat in that room forgot was that they too had used the word previously in political speech.

The montage went on for 13 minutes. (The video montage starts at 7:10 timeframe.)
Rumble video on website 23:23 min

 

[marsh]

BOOM! Trump Attorneys DESTROY House Managers on Lying to American Public and Using Manipulated Tweet as Evidence! (Video) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

President Trump’s defense team took the floor of the US Senate on Friday in defense of President Trump in the Senate impeachment trial.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

BOOM! Trump Attorneys DESTROY House Managers on Lying to American Public and Using Manipulated Tweet as Evidence! (Video)

By Jim Hoft
Published February 12, 2021 at 12:02pm

President Trump’s defense team took the floor of the US Senate on Friday in defense of President Trump in the Senate impeachment trial.

Trump Attorney David Schoen ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED the House Managers when he took to the floor of the US Senate.

At one point Schoen played video of the Democrat lawmakers lying about a Trump tweet.
House Impeachment Manager Eric Swalwell gave a riveting performance on Wednesday reading off Trump’s tweets with emotional appeal.

During this theatrical performance, Swalwell read off a Trump retweet by Jennifer Lynn Lawrence.

But there was one problem with the tweet.
It was photoshopped.

Jennifer Lynn Lawrence has never been verified by Twitter.
Democrats faked that to make it look more important.

Dustin Stockton has more.
Wow.

On Friday Trump Attorney David Schoen destroyed Democrats for lying about this to the American public!

View: https://youtu.be/G_rE77M8IoA
4:28 min

 

[marsh]

"We Will NEVER EVER Concede - Because You STOLE THE ELECTION! And You Brag About It!" - Steve Bannon Goes Off on Lying Democrat Impeachment Team (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Steve Bannon WENT OFF on the Democrat Impeachment team after they admitted on Thursday that they are using the US military in Washington DC to enforce political speech.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

“We Will NEVER EVER Concede – Because You STOLE THE ELECTION! And You Brag About It!” – Steve Bannon Goes Off on Lying Democrat Impeachment Team (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published February 11, 2021 at 9:31pm

Steve Bannon WENT OFF on the Democrat Impeachment team after they admitted on Thursday that they are using the US military in Washington DC to enforce political speech.

Bannon promised Democrats Trump Nation will NEVER, EVER concede because Democrats stole the election — And then bragged about it on the cover of TIME Magazine!

Via Pandemic War Room:

Stephen K. Bannon blasted Ted Lieu after he said the quiet part out loud: the Democrats are using the military to enforce political speech.

“Sir, you are a liar,” Bannon said. “If that is the truth, then you have lied about why the troops are there.”

On Thursday during the impeachment trial Lieu said “the National Guard troops in full body armor still patrol outside” because President Trump hasn’t said the words “the election was not stolen.”

“This is state power for crass political reasons to go against the Constitution of the United States,” Bannon said.

“Sir, let me make sure you understand something. Ted Lieu and Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden and every distributor and Twitter and all of it: We will never concede,” he said. “We will never say this election was not stolen.”

“We will never ever ever ever concede. Do you understand that?” Bannon added.

“And you know why? Because you stole this election and you bragged about it on the cover of TIME magazine.”

Rumble video on website 2:33 min

 

[marsh]

Counsel Says Politicians Raising Bail For Rioters Encourages More Rioting, Harris Promoted Bail Fund Group For 'Protestors' | The Gateway Pundit | by The Scoop

Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham and colleagues have been strategizing with the defense team and questioned the counsel, “Does a politician raising bail for rioters encourage more rioting?” President Trump’s defense team responded in less than 10 seconds ‘yes’ after being given 5 min.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Counsel Says Politicians Raising Bail For Rioters Encourages More Rioting, Harris Promoted Bail Fund Group For ‘Protestors’

By The Scoop
Published February 12, 2021 at 5:00pm

Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham and colleagues have been strategizing with the defense team and questioned the counsel, “Does a politician raising bail for rioters encourage more rioting?”

President Trump’s defense team responded in less than 10 seconds ‘yes’ after being given 5 min. Some will argue that Harris was raising bail for ‘protestors’ which of course PolitiFact wanted to make it clear that “not everyone who has been arrested during protests could fairly be described as ‘rioters.”

Celebrities who also helped pay for Minnesota ‘protestors’ bail reported by People Magazine “Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Janelle Monáe and Don Cheadle were among the stars that donated to the organization, sharing the link on Twitter. Kehlani also posted their donations, each giving $1,000.”

Fox News reported, “Sen. Kamala Harris promoted the bail fund group that several Biden staffers donated to during the protests that followed George Floyd’s death…”

On the link posted from Kamala Harris’s Twitter reads, “Make a donation to the Minnesota Freedom Fund. Your support will help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.”

Below is the post VP Kamala Harris made promoting the bail fund groups, “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFun to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.”



Rumble video on website 1:40 min

 

[marsh]

"We Shouldn't Have Followed Him - We Shouldn't Have Listened to Him" - Nikki Haley Slams Trump and His Supporters | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

When the going gets rough, you can count on Trump-haters to slam President Trump and his supporters.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

“We Shouldn’t Have Followed Him – We Shouldn’t Have Listened to Him” – Nikki Haley Slams Trump and His Supporters

By Jim Hoft
Published February 12, 2021 at 8:58am

When the going gets rough, you can count on Trump-haters to slam President Trump and his supporters.

Nikki Haley slammed President Trump and his supporters telling far-left Politico, “We shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.”

Haley has been wanting to let that out for years.
And she’s 100% incorrect.

President Trump had every right to confront and challenge the 2020 election results. If Haley was more astute she would see this. She’s not and it proves she is incapable of serious consideration for any public office in the future, unless she joins a Democrat administration.

If you can’t stand up to fraud, you can’t be trusted to lead.



The Hill reported:

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued stunning remarks breaking with former President Trump, telling Politico in an interview published Friday that she believes he “let us down.”

“We need to acknowledge he let us down,” Haley, who served in her ambassador role under Trump, said. “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.”

Haley’s remarks are her strongest yet against the former president in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and come as Trump’s legal team is set to continue its defense of Trump on Friday in his second Senate impeachment trial.

[COMMENT: A lot on War room pandemic about Haley trying to make a (unsuccessful)
move to be the GOP Presidential candidate in 2024. She never was a Trump supporter]

 

[Murt]

I haven't watched any of the dog and pony show
I did watch a video clip where one of the people in attendance asked that a remark or comment be stricken from the record because it was false
In that clip Leahy looked like a total buffoon --the woman in front of him was having to tell him what to say--it was a joke
and he is supposed to be "in charge"
they have no shame --none

 

[marsh]

Episode 10: ‪Ted Lieu Admits The Truth About Phony Impeachment Feat. Ben Harris-Quinney - The National Pulse
Raheem Kassam and Benjamin Harris-Quinney discuss how Democrats denied the 2016 election and now charge President Trump with the very thing they did. The two also discuss news on the UK lockdown and the ‘GB News’ channel.

EPISODE 10 : EP10: Ted Lieu Admits The Truth About Phony Impeachment (guest Ben Harris-Quinney) 59:27 min

Episode 11: Trump's Defense Team Destroys Democrats With Their Own Words - The National Pulse+

Raheem Kassam walks you through the critical arguments made by President Trump’s defense team and brings you the latest news about the Joe Biden’s White House and its abusive staff members. Make sure you’re subscribed on a podcast app and leave us a review!

thenationalpulse.com

Raheem Kassam walks you through the critical arguments made by President Trump’s defense team and brings you the latest news about the Joe Biden’s White House and its abusive staff members.

EPISODE 11: EP11: Trump's Defense Team Destroys Democrats With Their Own Words. 44:53 min

 

[marsh]

Democrat Impeachment Lead Admits Using National Guard to Compel Trump into Election Concession. - The National Pulse+

Ted Lieu said the quiet part out loud, and perhaps has done more damage to the entire Democratic Party case to impeach President Trump than any other of his fellow impeachment managers. Speaking on the floor of the Senate today, Lieu shockingly admitted: [Trump] does not say that one sentence...

thenationalpulse.com

Democrat Impeachment Lead Admits Using National Guard To Compel Trump Into Election Concession.

• FEBRUARY 11, 2021
• RAHEEM KASSAM

Ted Lieu said the quiet part out loud, and perhaps has done more damage to the entire Democratic Party case to impeach President Trump than any other of his fellow impeachment managers.

Speaking on the floor of the Senate today, Lieu shockingly admitted:

[Trump] does not say that one sentence that matters. He does not say the one sentence that would stop future political violence: ‘the election was not stolen’. He still has not said that sentence. That is why National Guard troops in full body armor still patrol outside.

This is a leading Democrat impeachment manager admitting to the fact that the National Guard has been utilized for political ends, with a view to forcing someone to make a political statement. With a view to erasing someone’s opinion.

Watch for yourself:

Video on website 1:16 min

 

[marsh]

Trump impeachment trial headed for Saturday finale after defense rebuttal, questions

Questions from senators were handwritten then turned into Sen. Patrick Leahy, the president pro tempore, and read out loud

justthenews.com

Day four of Trump impeachment trial wraps after senators question both sides, vote set for Saturday

Day four of Trump impeachment trial wraps after senators question both sides, vote set for Saturday

Questions from senators were handwritten then turned into Sen. Patrick Leahy, the president pro tempore, and read out loud
Image

President Donald Trump's defense attorney Michael van der Veen speaks on the fourth day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.
(Photo by congress.gov via Getty Images)

By Nicholas Ballasy
Updated: February 12, 2021 - 6:53pm

U.S. senators posted questions on Friday to the House impeachment managers and former President Trump's defense in the trial for several hours.

The questions were handwritten and turned over to Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Senate president pro tempore.

Trump's defense had up to 16 hours to present their case but used less than 4 hours on Friday. Senators had up to 4 hours to question both sides after Trump's defense presented. The questioning lasted for more than 2 hours. The Senate is scheduled to reconvene tomorrow at 10am.

Trump's defense team accused the House impeachment managers of taking Trump out of context with edited video clips during their oral arguments. His attorneys argued that Trump's rhetoric on Jan. 6 was protected by the First Amendment.

The defense team on Friday played video clips of Democrats' past speeches about "fighting" in the Trump era. After showing harsh rhetoric from Democrats, Trump's defense queued up footage of the violent protests that happened in major cities last year after the death of George Floyd.

The House impeachment managers wrapped up their oral arguments on Thursday and called on senators not to let Trump's incitement of his supporters on Jan. 6 "go unanswered."

One question was related to whether the riot would have happened without the conduct of Trump. In response, Texas Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro, an impeachment manager, argued that Trump was directing his "rage" at Jan. 6 and encouraging his supporters on Twitter to come to Washington, D.C. on that day when the Electoral Votes were being certified.

Another question was if a politician raising money for the bail of protesters arrested for rioting encourages more rioting.

"Yes," Trump defense attorney Bruce Castor replied.

Michael van der Veen, a Trump defense attorney, said the House impeachment managers have "done zero" to investigate why proper security was not present at the U.S. Capitol ahead of Jan. 6.

"There's been absolutely no investigation into that," he said. "Due process is required here and that was denied."

Democratic Rep. Stacey Plaskett, who represents the Virgin Islands, argued that Trump knew the Jan. 6 "Save America" march could turn violent before he addressed the crowd.

Shortly before the questioning concluded, Castro told the senators that the "future of our democracy rests in your hands."

After the question and answer session, the Senate passed legislation to award Officer Eugene Goodman the Congressional Gold Medal for his heroism in helping lawmakers escape during the January 6th riot.

The final vote in the impeachment trial is expected to take place tomorrow.

 

[marsh]

Trump defense team wraps case, argues Trump's Jan. 6 rhetoric is 'protected' free speech

A Trump defense attorney called the Democrats' second impeachment effort 'constitutional cancel culture'

justthenews.com

A Trump defense attorney called the Democrats' second impeachment effort 'constitutional cancel culture'

2:36 min Video on website

Former President Donald Trump's defense team wrapped up their oral argument during the fourth day of Trump's impeachment trial on Friday, accusing the House impeachment managers of taking Trump out of context with edited video clips and arguing that Trump's rhetoric is protected by the First Amendment.

Trump's defense had up to 16 hours to present their case but used less than 4 hours. After a break, senators will pose questions in the trial.

On Friday, the defense team played video clips of Democrats' calling on their supporters to "fight" in the Trump era. After showing past harsh rhetoric from Democrats, Trump's defense queued up footage of the violent protests that happened in major cities last year after the death of George Floyd.

The House impeachment managers wrapped up their oral arguments on Thursday and called on senators not to let Trump's incitement of his supporters "go unanswered."

The impeachment managers argued on Wednesday, the second day of the trial, that Trump engaged in a "months-long effort to incite" his supporters to doubt the presidential election results, leading to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

On Tuesday, senators heard opening arguments from both sides about the constitutionality of the trial. Following the arguments, the full Senate voted that it is constitutional to try a U.S. president who is no longer in office.

Trump attorney Michael van der Veen said Trump followed the Constitution when speaking at the “Save America” rally in his Jan. 6 speech. He showed clips of Democrats objecting to some of Trump’s Electoral College votes in 2016.

He referred to the impeachment managers’ effort to bar Trump from future public office “constitutional cancel culture.”

Attorney David Schoen argued the impeachment managers relied heavily on media reports to make their case against Trump rather than actual evidence. He said people get more “due process” fighting a parking ticket than Trump did in this trial. Schoen also questioned why the House managers held the "never-before-seen" Capitol security footage and did not release it to the public or Trump himself ahead of the trial.

Schoen also argued that the House impeachment managers "manipulated" Trump's words when playing a clip of him saying there were "fine people on both sides" after the Charlottesville protest. The full remarks included Trump denouncing white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

The House impeachment managers focused heavily on Trump's "fight like hell" comment during his Jan. 6 speech. Schoen showed video clips of Democrats using rhetoric that could be interpreted as violent.

His video montage included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying Democrats have to learn how to "throw a punch" and former Vice President Joe Biden saying he would "beat the hell" out of Trump in high school. He also played clips of Democrats like then-Sen. Kamala Harris saying Democrats have to "fight" in the Trump era.

"We like a good fight," Harris said.

House impeachment managers argued that Trump's "stop the steal" message was unprecedented. To respond to that argument, Schoen showed video of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton saying that you could be a major political party's presidential nominee and have the election "stolen" from you. He also played Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown saying Stacey Abrams' gubernatorial election was "stolen" from her.

Van der Veen played additional video of "robust" rhetoric from Democrats about punching Trump in the face and said the First Amendment should be applied "evenly."

"All robust speech should be protected and it should be protected evenly for all of us," he said. "The Senate cannot ignore the First Amendment."

Van der Veen also said Democrats "selectively" edited Trump's Jan. 6 speech and left out the former president saying that the rally attendees should "peacefully and patriotically" make their voices heard.

Van der Veen queued up another montage of videos that showed former Vice Presidential Nominee Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, saying Democrats have to "fight in the streets" against Trump in 2017. Referring to Trump's use of "fighting" rhetoric, van der Veen said, "suddenly the word 'fight' is off limits?"

After the montage, van der Veen said that "the reality is Mr. Trump was not in any way shape or form instructing these people to fight or to use physical violence" on Jan. 6.

"What he was instructing them to do was to challenge their opponents in primary elections to push for sweeping election reforms, to hold big tech responsible; all customary and legal ways to petition your government for redress of grievances, which of course is also protected constitutional speech," he said.

"What he was instructing them to do was to challenge their opponents in primary elections to push for sweeping election reforms, to hold big tech responsible; all customary and legal ways to petition your government for redress of grievances, which of course is also protected constitutional speech," he also said.

Trump's defense team argued that the impeachment trial "poses a serious threat to freedom of speech for political leaders of both parties at every level of government."

 

[marsh]

Sen. Tim Kaine: Not enough bipartisan support to censure Trump in Senate

Virginia Democrat had said earlier this week that his censure resolution remained a "live option."

justthenews.com

Sen. Tim Kaine: Not enough bipartisan support to censure Trump in Senate

Virginia Democrat had said earlier this week that his censure resolution remained a "live option."
Image

Sen. Kaine
Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images

By Nicholas Ballasy
Updated: February 12, 2021 - 4:34pm

With the Senate expected to acquit former President Trump in his impeachment trial as soon as Saturday, Sen. Tim Kaine acknowledged Friday that a censure resolution he drafted as an alternative to conviction has little prospect of success.

"It's only live if people want to do it, and it has to be bipartisan, and I don't think Republicans want to put a hurdle in Donald Trump's way," the Virginia Democrat Kaine said, according to The Hill. "There's some Republicans who do but not enough."

Kaine had said earlier this week that the censure resolution was still an option on the table.

“There has to be accountability for the actions of Jan. 6, and my belief is that President Trump basically fomented this insurrection," he said on Monday.

Kaine has described his resolution, drafted with Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins, as "more than a censure resolution, but it is not an impeachment conviction."

"It condemns the president's behavior, but then it makes two factual findings under the 14th Amendment," he said, explaining that it refers to the Jan. 6 riot as an "insurrection" against the U.S. Constitution and alleges that Trump gave "aid and comfort to the insurrectionists."

Kaine said those two findings under the 14th Amendment would pose a "major hurdle" for Trump if he ever wanted to seek future office.

"When we shared it around, though, frankly, there weren't many Republicans who want to block Donald Trump from running for office," he said.

Senate Republican Whip John Thune signaled on Friday that he would be open to supporting a censure resolution depending on how it is crafted.

Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley said a censure resolution is still on the table as an option if Trump is acquitted.

Democrats have the majority in the 50-50 Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris as the time breaking vote. A censure resolution would need 60 votes for passage in the chamber.

 

[marsh]

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Trump Legal Team Plays Scorching Montage Of Democrats 'Inciting' And Challenging Past Elections

FRIDAY, FEB 12, 2021 - 12:22

Update (1540ET): Trump's legal team wrapped up their case in just over three of the allotted 16 hours.

The next phase will consist of up to four hours of questions from senators to both the House managers and Trump's legal team - though several senators have said they don't think it will take that long.

"Our country needs to get back to work. I know that you know that. But instead we are here. The majority party promised to unify and deliver more Covid relief. But instead, they did this," said Trump attorney Bruce Castor in closing remarks.

Castor called Trump "the most pro-police, anti-mob president' in US history - suggesting that Democratic lawmakers turned a blind eye to BLM protests. He also said that the attack on the Capitol was in no way an "insurrection."

"Insurrection is a term of art. It’s defined in the law," argued Castor. "It involves taking over a country, a shadow government, taking the TV stations over and having some plan on what you’re going to do when you finally take power. Clearly this is not that."

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Update (1410ET): After spending much of the morning laying out their case for why the impeachment is a sham, former President Trump's legal team proceeded to play several montages of Democrats doing the exact same thing they've impeached Trump over - namely, calling for violence against Republicans. Interspersed throughout are clips of leftists committing violence against conservatives following the 'incitement.

Watch:

View: https://youtu.be/rhJYHU3ejLc
2:53 min

They also played clips of Democrats objecting to election results:

View: https://youtu.be/umsAhEFHFKA
2:13 min

As well as clips of Democrats gunning for a Trump impeachment at all costs:

View: https://youtu.be/cq4GiGTZaKQ
1:54 min

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Watch

View: https://youtu.be/TMeAOM52n2M
7:13:14 min

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After Democratic impeachment managers spent the last two days dissecting videos and tweets - and in one case fabricating evidence to try and convince the world that former President Trump incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, it's now time for the defense to counter.


In what is expected to last just one day, Trump's impeachment lawyers will reportedly present a montage of prominent Democrats similarly 'inciting' their base, as BLM and Antifa extremists spent much of last year committing violent and destructive crimes throughout the country.

If anything, it might serve as some Friday entertainment as Trump's second impeachment draws to a close. The proceedings begin at Noon, ET.

As we've noted several times, this is nothing more than political theater, as Democrats simply don't have the votes to convict the former president - which would require at least 17 Republicans to cross the aisle for a conviction. So far, they've got six.

"Many of them are loyal to Donald Trump even to this day, despite what he may have said about them or their families in the past," Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) told Bloomberg Television on Thursday, adding "And more of them are afraid of Donald Trump’s political power."

According to Trump attorney David Schoen, the defense might only need three or four hours on Friday for an opening argument, while a person familiar with their strategy told Bloomberg that they decided to "slim down" their presentation based on what the Democrats presented earlier in the week.

According to Schoen, the trial "could be over Saturday."

"We’re just putting on the evidence, the evidence speaks for itself," said Schoen, referring to the Democrats' impeachment effort "a politically partisan process."

After the House managers concluded their arguments, Schoen met for about an hour Thursday night with several Republican senators. He defended having a discussion with lawmakers who are also jurors in the case, saying, “That’s the practice here. There’s nothing about this thing that has any semblance to due process whatsoever.”

The trial is all but certain to end with Trump’s acquittal. A conviction would require 17 Senate Republicans to join with Democrats and independents in finding Trump guilty to reach the two-thirds majority necessary. Even the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat said he saw little indication that many Republicans would back conviction. -Bloomberg

Check back for more updates and a live feed when the trial starts...

 

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Buchanan: Dark Winter Of A Grand Old Party

FRIDAY, FEB 12, 2021 - 17:40

Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org,
It has been a dreadful three months for the Grand Old Party.
On Nov. 3, President Donald Trump seemed to have lost the White House by narrowly losing three crucial blue states he had won in 2016 — Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania — and Georgia and Arizona as well.

Trump immediately mounted an acrimonious two-month campaign to prove the election had been “rigged” and “stolen,” enlisting virtually the entire party behind his claim.

On Jan. 5, after an intra-party battle between Trump and the Georgia Republican leadership, the GOP lost both of Georgia’s Senate seats and control of the U.S. Senate.

On Jan. 6, a mob, after storming the Capitol to block a formal vote to confirm the election of Joe Biden as president, rampaged through the building for hours.

On Jan. 13, Trump was impeached by Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s House for “incitation of insurrection.”

The trial began Tuesday, featuring endless reruns of footage from the Jan. 6 occupation, showing thugs invading and trashing the Capitol and searching out Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence.

Trump’s defense: He directed the crowd on the mall to march to the Capitol “peacefully” not violently, and the White House was unaware there might be a mob assault.

In the month since the attack on the Capitol, says The New York Times, 140,000 Republicans in 25 states have renounced their party by changing their registration. And Joe Biden’s approval rating has been in the 50s, a level Trump did not reach in four years.


There may have been a worse 90 days in Republican Party history, but it is difficult to recall exactly when.

There was the Goldwater defeat of 1964, which left the party with less than 40% of the presidential vote and less than a third of the seats in the House and Senate.

There was the Watergate year 1974, which saw Richard Nixon resign in August and the party lose 49 House seats that fall and then lose the presidency to Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Yet, the years following these political disasters were not all that bad.

Goldwater’s defeat was followed by the Nixon-led comeback in 1966, with the party picking up 47 seats and then recapturing the White House in 1968. And while Watergate was followed by the loss of Nixon’s successor Gerald Ford in 1976, Jimmy Carter’s presidency opened the door to the winningest Republican of them all, Ronald Reagan.

In short, it is not always true as Sen. John McCain mordantly observed, that the darkest hour is often just before it turns totally black.

What are the prerequisites for a Republican restoration?

As Nixon’s victory in 1968 and Reagan’s in 1980 showed, a party comeback requires, first, the perceived failure of the opposition on issues of major concern to the great majority.

In 1968, LBJ’s Great Society program had ushered in five summers of race riots, soaring crime rates, a social and cultural revolution on the campuses, and a war in Southeast Asia that was consuming 200 to 300 American lives a week.

Under Carter in 1980, there were 21% interest rates, 13% inflation, 7% unemployment and 52 U.S. hostages being held in Iran.

A second and indispensable element of a party comeback is party unity, which Nixon and Reagan produced, as Eisenhower had before them.

Whether the GOP will be united in 2022 or 2024 depends, very much today, on one man.

Still, as of today, though Biden appears personally popular, he seems to be moving leftward in a way that will play into the GOP’s hands on several issues.

Shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline, for example, is a policy decision that will kill thousands of jobs to prevent an “existential crisis” millions of workers do not see.

Second, Biden has moved the racial goalposts from equality of opportunity to “equity” for all, which can only be attained by socialist action to even out incomes and wealth through quotas, affirmative action and set-asides. Yet, voters in ultra-liberal California last fall crushed Prop 16, which would have empowered public agencies, universities and colleges to consider race, gender and ethnicity when making decisions on contracting, hiring and student admissions.

Moreover, the liberal immigration policy Biden promised last fall has already caused a stampede to our Southern border. Some 78,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended by the Border Patrol crossing in January alone. They are now being caught at the rate of 3,000 a day.
Securing the border is a populist and national security issue.

Other Trump add-ons to the traditional GOP agenda remain popular with large majorities of Americans.

Consider the “America first” issues of economic nationalism, the return of manufacturing to the United States, and keeping U.S. troops out of foreign wars where no vital U.S. interests are imperiled.

The questions of the hour are these: Will the GOP be united against an incumbent party that is moving visibly leftward and dragging the country with it — and what will Donald Trump do?