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President Donald Trump's Legal Team To Argue He 'Did Nothing Wrong' On Ukraine | MSNBC
Sounds like Leningrad Lindsay’s defense of Trump… Trump thinks he didn’t do anything wrong…
Yeah I’m sure Hitler thought he didn’t do anything wrong either…
Prison is full of people who think he didn’t do anything wrong… The truth is Trump is a CRIMINAL and the LAW doesn’t care what you think about it…
@Inde nmcThe foundational issues with the Democrats’ Articles have ZERO to do with Schiff’s chronology and everything to do with Statutes and the Constitution, which the Democrats are seriously violating. You cannot open impeachment proceedings BEFORE the grounds of an Article of Impeachment even EXIST, but that is precisely what they have done with the Article on Obstruction of Congress. Their phoney grounds for that only occurred AFTER the proceedings were already under way. Huh? Cart before horse?
The Article on Abuse of Power, is based on the Democrats’ ASSUMPTIONS of The President’s INTENT, but they have ZERO evidence to corroborate the intent they’re claiming the President had. What they’ve done is build an Article of Impeachment upon their own DEDUCTIONS, concerning the Ukrainian investigation. Although their deductions are not illogical, deductions are not FACTS. Evidence is fact-based. The President’s actions are entirely consistent with his well-known and established Agenda to drain the swamp of corruption in Congress. His determination in that has never flagged. Joe Biden is not the ONLY Congressmen involved in corruption in the Ukraine. Republicans are too. How does that benefit The President?
The President donates his salary every month to a charity or to U.S. infrastructure. He has never once shown any inclination of corruption in office. Even Robert Mueller could find none. Even the rabid and corrupt, anti-Trump NYSD Attorney General could find none after NINE investigations into Trump’s financial affairs, business dealings, Contracts and private life – all an over-reach of her powers. It is time they gave up. The Democrats’ persistent attempts to tar Trump with their own tainted reputation for corruption is not consistent with the Trump Agenda at all. What is consistent is the Democrats persistent attempts via indirect and covert means to SHUT DOWN the MANY and current investigations by the Trump Administration, in their many staged attempts to pin a crime on the President and remove him from office, afraid they may be implicated in those investigations. Their actions border on treason.
@Dingles trump donates his salary to charity ? don’t make me laugh, trump had a charity and used the money donated to have portraits of himself fone, one 10′ one 12′ . trump cannot: run a charity, run a school, run for office, why are all trumps campaign workers in jail? why is trump’s personal lawyer dumping capable ambassadors and trying to to their job? because what trump and giuliani are doing is illegal.
@Dingles why is trump not doing an investigation on the bidens legally through the doj? because the doj declined to re-do the investigation. for the simple reason it’s been done when biden was vice president, no wrong-doing found if you don’t believe that do an investigation yourself. why did trump slander and spy on yovanovitch, why not just fire her? because then someone would ask questions. on trump’s orders giuliani spied on an american citizen but don’t worry ukraine is investigating that. and there is evidence of a crime committed by trump and cronies that the trial judge looks at before releasing it – but a member of the senate can release it too. do you have friends in jail? i don’t know anyone incarcerated but trump’s closest allies seem to end up there because of fraud.
@anne-marie Andrews – So you think the criminals investigating themselves is a good idea? Yeah right. I get it.
This is exactly what happens….when you let a bunch of crooks run the whitehouse! Smh.
Fake president, real traitor.
You don’t send your personal lawyer to a foreign country to ‘investigate’ corruption. You use the Justice Department.
Dingles I’m sorry, I told you I had to work. I’m an upper middle class working American who still works for a living lol. There’s literally dozens of articles you can google if you want this info. You haven’t provided any factual evidence just your opinion. How about the recording that surfaced just a while ago? He’s supposedly screaming “take her out” in regards to Ambassador Yovanovitch.
@anne-marie Andrews – I give up I you want to believe the fake news, I’m not here to educate you. The reason just might be she breached the rules of confidentially, lied, was complicit with others in the buracracy in attempting to pin a crime on The President, was found to be untrustworthy, unfit to be trusted in the Diplomatic Corps. You can’t have people in Diplomacy, who are actively working against the government.
Dingles Umm sure. You’re clearly a bot that doesn’t even know who you’re responding to. Good luck trying to convince people that nothings been done after the rest of the evidence comes out. Hope you’re keeping warm. I hear it’s really cold around this time in Russia.
This is nothing more than a mob illiegal team and yes ,the legal crook Sekulow was on the loop !!!
no, i think he’s just getting paid, also trump is also dumping alot of federal regulations to make it easier for the wealthy, especially in real estate for more wetlands to be erased and polluted.
Satan’s legal helpers are about to argue that $hℹt is gold.
I know, it’s why Schiff needs to go with his minions.
@Al Shabob … and shred Trump and his minions to pieces.
@Al Shabob knows that Putin is a lowlife toilet drinker.🤔
Trump’s defense team is trying to convince the American people that Trump did nothing wrong, because there’s no such thing as right or wrong anymore.
his lawyers know that he is guilty as fcuk…they are only concerned with keep his base stoked.the only way to do that is to keep saying…he did nothing wrong!!!
And the truth isn’t the truth, per Rudy G and “Alternative facts” as Kelly Ann infamously said.
not the american people…only his cult!!!
If I had a boss who tweets untrue things 8 hours per day, who campaigned on working hard for the American people, who spends 100s of millions of dollars on vacations, only to find out he’s circumventing the government agencies that are there to protect America for his own reelection; I’d personally walk him out myself. America needs to say, “you’re fired!”
It was such a perfect phone call he’s blocking Witnesses and concealing transcripts it doesn’t get any more perfect.
@Al Shabob = He just gave it to you. Now YOU go and check it out lazy bones. We are not your Nanny.
@anne-marie Andrews – OOH !! They spied on a rogue Ambassador and your knickers are all in a twist, but it is OK for Federal Agents to illegally spy on The President, with no GROUNDS to doso and it is OK if they even falsify Court documents to do so and worse, even perjure themselves too and lie about it for months and months. ? That’s all OK, but to do FAR LESS to an Ambassador where suspicion of misdemeanours and treason was justified, is ooooh simply unthinkable. Careful you don’t trip over your double standards and hypocrisy. You might break a leg.
@Dingles Name it
@Al Shabob Name what? I have five conversations going here. It won’t break your keyboard if you type more than five words.
I cannot think of a worst precedent than to say it is okay for a president to ask for foreign interference in our Democratic elections! America is in big trouble if this is condoned by this Senate trial.
Fact: Hunter theory debunked
Fact: Ivanka/Jr/Eric robbed charities.
Dems, include this in senate closing.
@ihave35cents trump used most of the money to have portraits painted of himself, one 10′ and on 12′, i don’t imagine that did much for the homeless.
@Maharajji NKB trump is on trial right now, joe and hunter biden have been investigated, look at eric ivanka and donnie jr, save the bidens for later.
@anne-marie Andrews his Charity gate out more than it took it up
@anne-marie Andrews all you did is f*** over cancer patients grats
@Some Person Oh, give over. That’s never happened. Quit shooting the messenger and ignoring the message. All of his books have a comprehensive Bibliography in the back pages, which can be fully checked and they ARE thoroughly by the opposition hopeful of making the very claim you just made, but no-one can without being shown to be a fraud. I think you’re confusing him with Bob Woodward who did some great investigative work in his early career, but has since discredited himself for “making stuff up”. There are sniffer dogs checking both sides, always checking these authors hoping to “catch” them out and so far, there is not a single valid claim which can hold a candle to Schweizer’s meticulous sourcing.
He made one minor error in ONE of his books and the Democrats think that means the entirety of his life-long work of impeccable research and investigatory journalism can now be discredited on the strength of that. He acknowledged the error and righted it. Nothing unusual.
Hold on to your truth meters…it’s going to get crazy!!!!!
Americans, we pray for your republic in Sweden. Just have him removed from Office! Please.
@Jeff Chrapcynski Sweden rocks, in other words.
Dear Islamic Republic of Swedenistan, fix your own country before advising others.
@Jeff Chrapcynski toronto star:”if donald trump does not depart earlier jan. 20 2021 will likely mean the end of the most corrupt and dangerous presidency in modern american history.” this is how the world sees trump – don’t be so rude to other countries jerk.
are you always so rude? when trumpty put out the hit on soleimani he declined to tell ally countries with troops in the area, america is fast losing the faith of allies, be careful.@Andrew S
canada feels the same, trump thinks his tweets are witty but they are just ignorant 4th grade insults, america apparently has lots of low education voters who appreciate what they think is honesty, but in reality is fear.
how could the argue that when everyone has said along this dirty rabid insane dog did nothing wrong?
Now Burisma claiming it’s been hacked sounds familiar exactly
like DNC Hillary Clinton server’s yeah right!
Pinocchio’s
burisma was hacked, apparently russia got in and didn’t hide it, speculation is that russia was trying to put fake hunter biden incriminating material in burisma’s records
Is a Trial that doesn’t
Allow Witnesses and
Documents ” A Dictator
Trial Style” ?
Yes it would be and that is the heart of the issues surrounding this Impeachment trial. There is a lawful process and a thing called “due process” which must be afforded to the accused.
1. In the investigative Impeachment Hearings held by the House, it must provide fact-based testimony to show evidence of a high crime or a high misdemeanour.
2. It must do so via fact-based testimony obtained from witnesses and supporting evidence in documentation and depositions.
3. It must permit the accused access to engage a legal team to represent the accused.
4. It must provide to the accused’s legal team ALL of the evidence and testimony that the House has gathered and heard.
5. It must allow the accused’s legal team to cross-examine the witnesses called by the House.
6. It must allow the defence to call its own witnesses and give testimony in the accused’s defence.
7. It must allow the accused to “confront” his/her accusers in the proceedings via his/her legal team.
The Democrats have done NONE of the above. They refused The President and his legal team access to the Impeachment Hearings while the House heard its own witnesses’ testimony. The President and his legal team were locked out. These proceedings were held in the BASEMENT of the House and not in the House itself. Legal? Why in the basement? To avoid the official in-House C-Span cameras.
The Democrats struck off the 13 witnesses for the President’s case, submitted in a list to the House by the President’s legal team, and allowed NONE of them to testify for the President in his defence.
The Democrats also denied the President’s legal team access to the hearings, thereby denying the President’s lawyers the right to cross-examine the Democrats’ witnesses.
ALL of these actions are violations of the law, violations of the President’s right to due process and are unconscionable.
The Democrats then held onto the Articles of Impeachment for over a month, before sending them to the Senate. The President’s legal team has still not seen any of the evidence collected by the House during the hearings in the House basement. This is unheard of and clearly illegal and a miscarriage of justice.
The Senate cannot and should not give The House’s case any recognition at all, due to these foregoing circumstances, let alone allow a trial at all, given the heinous injustices perpetrated to manufacture the case. The fact that the trial is even being permitted to go ahead is shocking enough.
My understanding from various Republicans who have spoken to the media about this, is that they will allow it to go only so far as is necessary to showcase what SHOULD NOT and MUST NOT be permitted to happen. I believe Alan Dershowitz will speak on behalf of the defence team concerning the Constitutional issues involved, when the President’s legal team are to make their representations after the Democrats have finished theirs.
@Dingles lol wut? None of that is true 😂. This is an inpeachment trial, not s criminal trial. Try to keep up, kiddo!
The is call Execute Privilige, and it has constitutional support. Every president did it, so all of them are impeachable? This is the problem of this media they do not tell you what the law says. I hope you can hear the defense because they already said it, but media once again do not want you to see it. See how democrats have talk, they never says specific article to support their arguments.
@shi erly – Correct again Shi erly and it can all be described in a single word – propaganda.
RUDY HAS IT ALL!!’ DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!!
Adam and Eve Schiff,, Truth is Coming!
“It will be Biblical.”
“Schitt storm” is incoming. 🤫! I am very excited to learn about the secret Awan court case!!
Finally. We get to hear the real story beginning tomorrow.
The last dozen comments, coming all of a sudden, looks like MSNBC booked a call to the Russian Troll farm. LOL!