Dems’ Impeachment Team Presented Falsely ‘Verified’ Tweets at Trial; Trump Defense Shatters Democrat ‘Very Fine People’ Lie; Constitutional Scholar: Dems’ Impeachment Case Doomed From the Start
By WND. It’s the third day of the second impeachment trial of former President Trump, but a liberal constitutional scholar says not only that the Democrats haven’t made a case for conviction, they were doomed from the start.
In a Fox News interview Thursday afternoon, Jonathan Turley, who testified in the first impeachment investigation one year ago, said the House “dug a pretty deep hole” in adopting the article of impeachment charging incitement of insurrection.
The Democrats have to make that case, he said, backed up by witnesses and evidence, and they haven’t. . .
“If reckless rhetoric is the standard, then the American public will have trouble distinguishing between the accused, the jurors and the prosecutors,” he said, referring to the inflammatory statements of many Democrats.
In this “snap impeachment,” the law professor said, the Democrats don’t have any witnesses. At one point, for example, they cited a senior aide who spoke to CNN under condition he not be named. But that’s not good enough in a trial, he said, and the Democrats had plenty of time to speak with that aide themselves. (Read more from “Constitutional Scholar: Dems’ Impeachment Case Doomed From the Start” HERE)
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Trump Defense Shatters Democrat ‘Very Fine People’ Lie
By WND. A defense attorney for President Trump in the Senate impeachment trial on Friday refuted the oft-repeated “Charlottesville lie” that Joe Biden says prompted him to run for president.
House impeachment managers played a selectively edited video of Trump’s 2017 remark on Thursday, claiming he referred to neo-Nazi rioters as “very fine people.”
But David Schoen was ready with the full video, which shows the left has been dishonestly manipulating Trump’s words to back their claim that he is a white supremacist.
“There’s that famous quote, like one of the house managers said, ‘A lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its shoes on,'” Schoen began.
“Well, this lie traveled around the world a few times, and made its way into the Biden campaign talking points, and ended up on the Senate floor. The Charlottesville lie, ‘very fine people on both sides.’ Except that isn’t all he said, and they knew it then, and they know it now. Watch this.”
(Read more from “Trump Defense Shatters Democrat ‘Very Fine People’ Lie” HERE)
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Dems’ Impeachment Team Presented Falsely ‘Verified’ Tweets at Trial
By Fox News. A senior impeachment aide said the inclusion of a fake blue check verification mark on tweets that were presented at the Senate trial was an accident.
The tweets showed comments from Jennifer Lynn Lawrence who was retweeted by former President Trump. The two tweets that were exhibited included blue check marks next to Lawrence’s name.
Blue checks show the user’s identity has been verified and also connote a certain status.
“The final graphic accidentally had a blue verification checkmark on it, but the substance of it was entirely accurate,” the aide said.
I’ve never been verified on Twitter so why did my Tweet used in the fact-free impeachment include a verification badge? I’m assuming Democrats faked it like they are faking the whole case. @RepSwalwell why did you add a verified badge to my tweet in your presentation? pic.twitter.com/9Ww0TLveNA
— Jennifer Lynn Lawrence (@JenLawrence21) February 10, 2021
The aide added: “If anything, it is further evidence of President Trump’s attention to and knowledge of what was being openly planned on January 6 by his followers, even those without Twitter verifications.” (Read more from “Dems’ Impeachment Team Presented Falsely ‘Verified’ Tweets at Trial” HERE)
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Jonathan Turley: Trump Impeachment – Lee-Raskin Exchange Reveals This Glaring Hole in the Case
By Fox News. At the end of its first day of argument, the Senate impeachment trial was thrown into chaos when a “juror” stood up like a scene out of Perry Mason to contest the veracity statements made by “prosecutors.”
That moment came as the Senate was preparing to end for the day. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, jumped to his feet to object that a quote by House manager Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., was false. Lee should know. They were purportedly his words.
After a frenzy on the floor and a delay of proceedings, lead House manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., announced that they would withdraw Cicilline’s statements and that “this is much ado about nothing, because it’s not critical in anyway to our case.”
In reality, it had much to do about the manager’s case and highlights a glaring problem in it.
The House has elected to try this case of incitement of insurrection largely on circumstantial evidence and using media reports rather than witness testimony. It is trial by innuendo and implication rather than direct evidence of what former President Donald Trump knew and intended on Jan. 6. (Read more from “Jonathan Turley: Trump Impeachment – Lee-Raskin Exchange Reveals This Glaring Hole in the Case” HERE)
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