They need 11 more to reach the threshold of conviction, and McConnell just let his dogs off the leash. The House managers bagged one new Republican vote yesterday thanks to the strength of their presentation and the staggering weakness of Trump’s defense. “Additionally,” reports Talking Points Memo, “McConnell has reportedly given his Republicans Senate colleagues the green light to vote with their conscience and convict Trump if they so choose.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is playing coy about what his final vote will be, though he did vote against continuing the trial yesterday. “And when they talked about it, they kind of glided over it, almost as if they were embarrassed of their arguments.” “They did everything they could but to talk about the question at hand,” said Cassidy. Castor and Schoen were so bad that GOP Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana went sideways and voted with five other Republicans to proceed with the trial. The odds of Trump’s conviction at the conclusion of this trial remain fantastically long, but cracks have begun to appear. Trump ‘was an eight,’ one person familiar with his reaction said.” “On a scale of one to 10, with 10 being the angriest, Mr. Trump, who often leaves the television on in the background even when he is holding meetings, was furious, people familiar with his reaction said,” reports The New York Times. Trump’s team, by all reports, really let the boss down yesterday. Schoen at least was able to get from A to B to C without breaking his leg chasing butterflies.”Īll in all, Schoen’s bit was a grand return to the phenomenon of the Audience of One: The only person Schoen was performing for was not in the building but was down in Florida seething at the TV. “If there was a theme to Castor’s presentation, it was pitched at a frequency that I couldn’t hear. “Castor started out trying to schmooze the senators and then went woolgathering all over the lot,” writes Esquire blogger Charles P. ( Suggesting the trial is the problem, and not the crime spree that required it.) “This trial will tear this country apart, perhaps like we have only seen once before in our history,” Schoen bullyragged. (Says the guy defending the guy who turned a mob loose on Congress to try and keep his gig.) How dare the House managers attempt to overthrow the will of millions of voters? (It’s called constitutionally mandated oversight, that whole checks and balances thing.)ĭemocrats don’t care about unity, they just want to destroy the country. His main points can be summed up (and rebutted) as such: Schoen’s version of events hewed closely to the grievance mainline that most Trump defenders cling to in the absence of cogent argument. The word “meandering” does not do Castor’s presentation justice he was the summer fly that can’t find its way out the open window, and so does lazy eights in the air until it dies of exhaustion. He was removed by the voters.” He even suggested the proper course of action instead of impeachment was to see the former president arrested: “If people go and commit lawless acts as a result of their beliefs and they cross the line, they should be locked up.” By the time he was finished, he had committed the mortal sin of admitting Trump had lost the election: “The object of the Constitution has been achieved. “We cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government and our institutions because they refuse to accept the will of the people under the Constitution of the United States.”Ĭastor, for his part, rose in response to Raskin and ran headlong into his own belt sander. This cannot be the future of America,” Raskin tearfully implored the room.
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