Section: TPM (USA)
Schiff Methodically Preempts And Rebuts Likely Team Trump Arguments
Towards the end of the proceedings Friday night, lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) laid out predictions of what he thinks President Donald Trump’s lawyers will argue Saturday, rebutting them as he went. He broke down the process attacks, including Republican complaints about “secret” House depositions. “Those super secret...
Senate GOP Is Coming Around To The Idea That What Trump Did Was Okay
We’re three days into the impeachment trial, and Senate Republicans have begun floating their “what President Trump did was okay” trial balloon. For the most part, they’re still avoiding weighing in directly about the Trump conduct House managers have described, and instead have thrown around procedural complaints or claims about how...
The 10 Things Dems Say Prove Trump Acted Corruptly In Ukraine Scheme
Sure, the bogus investigations that President Donald Trump wanted Ukraine to launch into Joe Biden and the 2016 election were conspiratorial garbage. But beyond that, House impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued Thursday, there are 10 clear reasons that the push for the investigations was corrupt on its face. On the Senate floor, Schiff...
Meanwhile, In Giuliani-World, The Ukraine Scheme Continues
As impeachment managers churn on through the second day of opening arguments in President Trump’s impeachment trial, one thing hasn’t stopped: the conduct that got Trump impeached in the first place Yes, that’s right. Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani tweeted Thursday morning that he intends to release “the evidence” at an...
GOPers Repeat Calls For Biden Testimony As Dems Debunk Conspiracy Theories
A focus by House impeachment managers on debunking the Ukraine conspiracy theories President Trump has pushed collided this week with a growing push by Senate Republicans to call witnesses like Joe Biden, ostensibly to litigate those very theories. A spotlight on the former vice president and 2020 contender is precisely what Trump wanted when he...
Impeachment Managers Rush To Debunk Biden Conspiracy Theories
Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), one of House impeachment managers, took aim at GOP-backed conspiracy theories around Burisma during the second day of opening impeachment arguments on Thursday, dismantling a key allegation linking Joe Biden to the Ukrainian gas company on whose board Hunter Biden sat. Introducing the theory early on into arguments...
Nadler Uses Words Of Trump’s Allies Against Him At Impeachment Trial
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler’s argument Thursday against President Trump’s interpretation of what constitutes an impeachable offense used the words of Trump’s top supporters against him. At the Senate impeachment trial, Nadler played clips or showed writings of Attorney General Bill Barr, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and...
Trump Flips Out About His Senate Impeachment Trial On Twitter
After mostly confining his Twitter feed to retweets from GOP allies this week, a livid President Donald Trump fired off tweet after tweet in an extended rant about his Senate impeachment trial on Thursday morning. “The Democrat House would not give us lawyers, or not one witness, but now demand that the Republican Senate produce the witnesses...
After Banning Evidence, GOP Senators Have A Complaint: Dems Talk Too Much
Tierney Sneed contributed to this report. The rules of the impeachment trial are set. As of this writing, no witnesses are set to be called. No additional documentary evidence will be considered by the world’s greatest deliberative body. And cross examination? Forget about it. But one day in, Republican senators have a complaint:...
Schiff Opens Impeachment Case Alleging Broad Pattern Of Trump Soliciting Foreign Help
President Trump’s decision to strong-arm Ukraine into becoming a domestic political ally for the 2020 election is merely the latest example of a pattern of soliciting foreign help, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued in his opening statement in the Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday. Schiff’s argument ties Trump’s alleged...
