The defense team for former U.S. President Donald Trump filed a brief Monday (Feb. 8) calling the impeachment trial political theater. Trump’s (Donald Trump) defense team filed a brief Monday (Feb. 8), saying the impeachment trial was political theater and that House Democrats have a “rabid hatred” for Trump, who is already a private citizen, suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome “.
The 78-page brief is the most comprehensive defense provided by the Trump defense team to date. Meanwhile, Trump’s post-presidential office has put up the material.
The U.S. Congress on Tuesday (Feb. 9) will begin the second impeachment trial against former President Trump. Trump’s lawyers on Monday again reiterated the two main arguments against impeachment – that the Senate has no jurisdiction to convict the former president, while the articles of impeachment violate Trump’s right to free speech, and furthermore, that the House impeachment delegates’ allegations are false.
They again called on House Democrats to withdraw the articles of impeachment, but were rejected, as expected. The House impeachment representatives accused Trump of “high crimes and misdemeanors” for inciting a mob to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Impeachment representatives are suspected of selectively quoting Trump’s speech
The 80-page brief released by House impeachment representatives on Jan. 2 alleges that Trump has been spreading lies for months – that he won a landslide victory in the 2020 election – and that before and on Jan. 6, 2021, he assembled, rallied and incited a mob to attack the Capitol, killing three police officers and four others, threatening the vice president and Congress, and successfully calling off the Electoral College vote count.
But the impeachment delegates’ briefs have a suspected practice of selectively quoting testimony against Trump (see “Trump Impeachment Update Both Parties Submitted Materials Showing Evidence”).
Trump defense lawyers also revealed this in their brief. They said House Democrats were “purely deceptive” and that “they cherry-picked (Trump’s speech)” to quickly and ominously support impeachment charges.
Trump’s lawyers recapped his full public speech, in which he told the crowd to “make your voices heard peacefully and patriotically” and put the phrase in bold at least three times.
They said the House impeachment representatives’ claim that Trump incited violence is “simply absurd” because what Trump said in his speech “speaks for itself.
“This is exactly what happened on Jan. 6, and I ask the reasonable and knowledgeable senator to take a few minutes to read the speech for himself,” the brief said.
Just who is responsible for the violence in Congress
The House impeachment representative’s submission last week said “President Trump’s responsibility for the events of Jan. 6 is clear and unmistakable” in part because Trump has improperly pressured state officials, the Justice Department and members of Congress over the past several weeks to overturn the election results and used inflammatory and violent language “dramatic escalation” of events.
The Trump defense team reasoned Monday, following the rhetoric of the impeachment delegates, that “if a small group of criminals (who came to the capital on their own initiative, heavily armed and ready to fight) completely misunderstood Trump, got caught up in his words, were so inspired by him that they left before the end of his speech and then walked a mile and a half away and ‘immediately’ do the exact opposite of what he just asked for, a claim that is simply outlandish.”
Trump’s lawyers noted that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has said that the violence was planned days before the attack and had nothing to do with Trump’s Jan. 6 speech; however, despite this, Democrats have said that the attack was premeditated and that a number of fellow House members coordinated and planned the attack with co-conspirators.
“The problem with this argument is that while House representatives are eager to exploit this tragedy for their own purely personal political gain, the House leadership simply cannot have it both ways,” the Trump lawyer brief reads. “Either the president instigated the riot, as the articles of impeachment say, or the riot was premeditated by a small group of criminals who deserve the maximum punishment under the law.”
“President Trump did not direct anyone to commit wrongdoing.” The briefing emphasized.
Trump’s defense attorneys also replied that House Democrats singled out the word “fight” in Trump’s speech for objection, so they should review House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) comments. Pelosi (Nancy Pelosi) and Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D). Ayanna Pressley’s (D-Mass.) comments about riots in cities across the United States in the summer of 2020.
Trump’s lawyers also said Democrats ignored the Constitution, drafted flawed impeachment charges and abused congressional power; in addition, Democrats committed political opportunism by “exploiting for their own political gain” and “selfishly” taking advantage of the Jan. 6 national The Democrats also committed political opportunism, “for their own political gain” and “selfishly” used the “emotions of terror and confusion” of the entire population on January 6 to exaggerate violence, displaying a “compulsion to confuse the facts.
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