President Donald Trump’s defense team and House managers will give their closing arguments on the Senate floor for the impeachment trial.
It starts at 11 a.m. ET and will last four hours. Senators will then have an opportunity to speak on the floor on why or why not the chamber should convict Trump.
House managers will go first. They have two hours to make their arguments. Then the defense team will have two hours.
The Senate will break for lunch.
Upon return, the senators will have an opportunity to make their impeachment speeches.
Conservative Democrat Joe Manchin said he is undecided on how he will vote on Wednesday. However, he suggested the Senate censure Trump instead.
The Senate has begun the floor speeches.
Sekulow played a clip of many Democrats talking of impeaching Trump since inauguration in 2017.
Like Ken Starr, Philbin is using his time to slam the House for not giving Trump due process and therefore broke the rules.
Philbin also lashed out at the House’s excuses not to go through the courts and process. He pointed out the process should go slow.
He then responded with disgust towards Demmings’ argument about Trump acting guilty because it goes against our system of law. He said that there is nothing wrong with anyone asserting their rights and privilege. He pointed out that even the Supreme Court has basically said that train of thought is stupid.
Purpura used his time to remind the senators that the Ukrainian government never learned about the U.S. pausing aid to the country until a Politico article on August 28.
He concluded that since no one, especially in the higher levels, knew about the pause then there was no leverage.
In fact, once someone informed Zelensky, he panicked and brought it up with Vice President Mike Pence in Warsaw on September 1. Yes, even Zelensky did not know.
Pence told Zelensky that he would like information on Zelensky’s anti-corruption reforms and how Europe could help more. In other words, Pence never mentioned investigations into the Biden family.
Jeffries accused Trump of putting America’s national security for sale. He also said Trump’s actions already call into question the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
Demmings claimed that “[I]nnocent people don’t try to hide every document and witness, especially those that could clear them” because “guilty people do” that.
I’m no lawyer, but I’m thinking that if you advise your client to talk and release all the documents you won’t be in business very long.
Also, Trump released transcripts. The left managed to twist that to fit their agenda. Why would he want to release anything else?
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