Watch Trump Aide Fact-Checked With Insurrection Evidence On Live TV | The Beat With Ari Melber

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As Trump’s impeachment trial looms, Trump surrogate and 2020 campaign advisor Boris Epshteyn claims the evidence against the former president is “absolute nonsense.” MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber fact-checks Epshteyn’s assertions in real time with documented and recorded evidence.(This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 01/25/2021.
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  1. First we couldn’t indict Trump because he was a sitting president, now we can’t impeach him because he is out of office. Now isn’t that convenient?

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    1. @Donna Bruton he was impeached, this isnt Impeachment, this is sentencing. They are twisting words to suit their agenda 📋.

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    2. It just means Biden can do the same thing Trump did in his last month of presidency because there is no time to impeach and convict him.

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    3. you’d think the forefathers are rolling in their graves right now on our interpretation of the constitution.

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    1. @mark Evans Shut up and get lost. There are people with IQs higher than 45 speaking here. It’s way over your head.

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    5. That wasn’t very nice… what you said about his breath…
      I got to tell you… you just made me bust out laughing…

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  4. His lawyers love to flap their gums, but when its a trial they chicken out. Because they know their license is at stake inside the courtroom.

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    3. Guliani is being sued for 1.3 billion dollars by Dominion. Yeah that’s what happens when lawyers flap their gums.

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    4. @TDBOMBA STFU TROLL.
      WASHINGTON—Dominion Voting Systems on Friday sued pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for defamation, seeking more than $1.3 billion in damages over what the voting-machine company said were “wild” and “demonstrably false” accusations, including her allegation that it had rigged November’s election in President-elect Joe Biden’s favor.

      “As a result of the defamatory falsehoods peddled by Powell—in concert with like-minded allies and media outlets who were determined to promote a false preconceived narrative—Dominion’s founder, Dominion’s employees, Georgia’s governor, and Georgia’s secretary of state have been harassed and have received death threats, and Dominion has suffered enormous harm,” the Denver-based company said in a 124-page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

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    5. @Forward Think “All” of us aren’t on the side that’s being hunted down by the FBI and the DOJ.None of “us” rioted and committed insurrection while violently invading Congress to extort the theft of a US presidential election.And “our” new president has already set about reversing the disgusting bigotry of Trump’s insane administration as well as ending the viral pandemic Trump pretended was going to “just magically disappear”. No need to thank us and you’re welcome.

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    3. True and besides, doesn’t it feel wrong to follow that lawyers logic? Half of impeachment is to find out if someone can hold a future public office. And here we have a man claim that all you need to do is just quit the job in time before the trial in order to start with a clean slate, ready for your next public office. That frankly reminds me of the Vatican.

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    1. You got that right. Lying is what most of them do for a living. I’ve been the victim of three vexatious lawsuits from the same slimy Trump like attorney. The man couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended on it, a pathological liar just like Trump. I went through quite a few lawyers before finally kicking his butt. It took ten years and I have yet to meet an honest attorney including my own.

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    2. He looks and sounds like Rudy 2.0, but we’ll never know what his hands were doing. Add absolutely no shame to the list.

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    3. @jemez name I am so sorry you went through that. I will still stand up for Ari, who is standing up for you in this video.

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    2. Seantors can’t be impeached as per the ruling of the Senate in 1798 when debating the possible impeachment of William Blount, Democratic-Republican from Tennessee. They can however be censured and expelled. Senators have been censured after they’ve left office; in most cases it’s because they resigned before the vote in the Senate could be held (e.g. Harrisson Williams D-New Jersey, Bob Packwood R-Oregon, and John Ensign R-Nevada).

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    3. At least 31 people have liked a fictional claim.

      A secretary of war was being voted on being impeached while in office. He turned in his recognition reportedly before the vote was completed. The senate voted against impeachment of him emphasizing how pointless it was since he was already out of office. They voted to take up the impeachment trial because it appeared he tried to resign before he could be impeached and they didn’t think that should be used as an escape from impeachment.

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  11. 3:00 The Constitution actually says “A” President. That includes former Presidents. “THE” President is the current President, Joe Biden.

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  13. When Boris starts laughing and then says something like “I love how fired up you are …”: this is a classic narcissistic move to try to irritate Melber… I have seen these sorts of things dozens of times. We all have. Melber does a great job of ignoring it.

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  14. The crime occured during his presidency, the impeachment was filed during his administration. Impeachment is not only appropriate but mandated by the constitution.

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    1. tretrag – the capital shouldn’t be the only building worth protecting. Citizens matter just as much as our government. That’s what our founding fathers wanted for our country.

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    2. @Crimdor a lot of people in this country and in the government don’t feel and behave that way. Not an easy or simple solution for that since because of the economic and society collapse is about to occur among other things. Things will eventually get better however it will come at high price before it happens.

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    3. @Crimdor no you aren’t fox news has been calling the capital rioters Antifa, BLM and Democrats for two weeks still are. Even though they idiots we’re proud of it and posted video of themselves storming capitol to internet. They even tried to label the people that tried to kidnap Governor of Michigan as radical leftist even though they were part of right winger militia group, had fascist propaganda on their computers, been members of far right chat groups for years and all looked like rejects from the Duck dynasty. I think some right wingers ARE STILL TRYING to blame them as radical leftist.
      Me personally think all those groups need to disarmed and arrested for mental instability especially the far left boogaloo bois who wear those hawaiian shirts.
      Btw why did Proud boys, boogaloo bois and leatherman all pick names that sound like should be homosexual groups? What are they hiding? lol. 😂

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    5. @Crimdor Ukrainian . My country is at war with Russia BTW. And why not I study economics political strategies, politicians, education, history from all over the world.
      Do you even know the difference between communism , marxist, leninism, socialism , or do just lump them all together with no understanding of the major differences?
      Do you know difference between radical, conservative , reactionary, facism, and a corporate liberal is?
      And where American republicans and democratics and which groups those parties fall into shouldn’t be too hard since you only have two political parties.

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  17. So he’s still just trying to lie about the election as a defense for treason.

    Who do I write to get this guy disbarred

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  18. “You can’t impeach a former President.”

    Cool, so you’re saying then he should have a normal trial like everyone else in this country, and his verdict shouldn’t be decided by the 50 Republican Senators. Man, you just played yourself

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    2. @Education is key The entire security community —- 17 Agencies— found Russians at work to corrupt the election in 2016. But you— wonderful, smart you— you know otherwise.

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    3. @Bob Johnson Sure. Not a lawyer, but:
      1) The bar is a lot higher in a court of law, starting with a presumption of innocence.
      2) He explicitly said “peacefully” in the speech in question. While many see this as equivalent to a Mafia don saying “I wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to this guy, but if something were to happen to him I would not shed a tear”, but there’s a reason that Mafiosos talk that way – it puts the burden of proof of what his words meant, on the prosecution.
      3) Everything that he said – and I’ve listened to the whole speech multiple times – could be interpreted to mean that they really should put up a very vocal protest, not physically attack anything. When he says “fight”, that can mean “fight by showing your dissatisfaction with words and banners”, and by “you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong”, “take back our country” can mean regain political power, and “strength” can be spiritual and influential rather than physical. His speech was very well crafted to have the desired effect without ever directly calling for a specific action. He left it to his son, and to crazy Rudy, to say things like “trial by combat”, which I think could land Giuliani in more trouble than Trump.
      4) The definition of “incitement” has been tested in the Supreme Court, and requires, from what I’m told, an explicit call to a specific action. Failing that, it was just a political speech, protected by the 1st Amendment. There was no specific action called for that was illegal.

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    4. @Bob Johnson Oh – and about those four years inciting violence? Same thing every time. Sure, he resolutely refused to condemn anybody for taking violent action, but every time he was careful to say something like “violence is wrong”, so he could defend every one of these.

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    5. @Deepak R Makes sense. Nixon resigned before the impeachment process could be finished, but then was pardoned. If it was only political, then why did he need to be pardoned? Honestly, just curious…I don’t have the best knowledge of how all this works. I definitely do not have a law degree.

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    2. There is an old Chinese proverb which goes like this “If you say a lie for a thousand times at the end it sounds like a truth”.

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