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I Kind Of Get Where Trump’s Coming From On His Impeachment Trial
Because if a jury has already told you they’re going to let you off no matter what, why not just turn it into a marketing opportunity?
Why bother to mount a law-based defense, when you can instead use it as an opportunity to grandstand and spread lies and you’ll still get off?
So in that context, is the fact that over the weekend, a whole handful of the key lawyers Trump had lined up have now backed out, going to make much of a difference?
That’s because, as first reported by CNN, and confirmed by many other news outlets:
“Trump wanted the attorneys to argue there was mass election fraud and that the election was stolen from him rather than focus on the legality of convicting a president after he’s left office.”
And I don’t get all the expressions of glee and joy I’m seeing in social media from Trump opponents about that happening.
Because though it’s “typical Trump”, does some lawyers leaving because Trump wants to pursue an extreme and ugly strategy really hurt Trump at all? Not if he still walks. And there’s still next to no chance Republicans in the Senate won’t facilitate that.
