We’re now in the third and last day of stupidity, as displayed by the clown car of hypocrites representing impeached criminal, Donald “quid pro quo” Trump*. Apparently the release of information from John Bolton’s Book caught them off guard. Except for a weak attempt to deflect it near the end of their presentation, they ignored it. In the process, they made fools of themselves.
I am glad I am leaving this place on Tuesday and heading to Iowa, where some decent people are contending to head a government and a political system so corrupted and debased at this point that the ship of state most closely resembles that homeless wandering garbage barge from 1987. The last thing I saw was Republican Senators John Barrasso and Mike Braun, red-faced and hollering, because some reporters wanted to know precisely how much of the bullshit slung by the White House lawyers on Monday afternoon anyone should believe.
Make no mistake about it. From about 4 o’clock, the time former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi rose to speak, until about 6, when a longtime lawyer for El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago named Eric Herschmann wrapped up what amounted to some MAGA rally cosplay, a monstrously obvious fraud was perpetrated on the Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment. If any lawyer in any municipal court in the country had lied and misrepresented the facts of a case involving a speeding ticket as thoroughly as Bondi and Herschmann did here, that lawyer’s license would have been pulled by lunchtime. However, Chief Justice John Roberts, perhaps exhausted by the effort it took to extend the work of Breckinridge Long into the 21st century on Monday morning, sat there like one of the marble vice presidents in the niches of the visitor’s galleries above. A fraud was perpetrated on the court over which Roberts was presiding, and he had to know it.
I thought the defense case had scraped bottom when Ken Starr was brought out of cold storage to lecture the Senate on the dangers of a runaway impeachment process. But that turned out to be merely particularly odious concern-trolling. Irony died a long time ago and all Starr was doing was digging up the casket and setting it ablaze. However, it was the Bondi-Herschmann pas de deux ended up shredding the last possible rags of dignity that still clung to the truth in this farce. Bondi began by explaining how it was the House managers that forced her to get up and talk about the Bidens and Burisma. Of course, Bondi was the Florida attorney general who, in 2013, buried that state’s investigation into the fraudulent Trump University after a $25,000 check from the Trump Foundation landed in her campaign account. At the moment, she’s making $115-large as a lobbyist for the government of Qatar. So, naturally, she was the lawyer chosen to crank up the innuendo machine regarding the Bidens and Burisma, especially since the Republicans Have The Votes, so nothing else matters.
Reading her prepared argument like a seventh-grader delivering a history report, Bondi found herself inevitably stanning for the deeply corrupt former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin. In reality, Shokin was removed because the government of the United States, the World Bank, and virtually every official in the western world except Sir Paul McCartney knew he was for sale and wanted him gone. Biden, then vice president, had been tasked with delivering the warning from the United States to Ukraine. Shokin had opened an investigation into Burisma but he had then stuffed it. That was part of why everybody thought he was a crook. Bondi, however, asked us to sympathize with Viktor Shokin, the victim of Biden shenanigans, a theory that has been debunked from here to glory. I swear to god, if they’d put a menu from Denny’s in Bondi’s folder, she’d have blamed Hunter Biden for the Grand Slam breakfast. [emphasis added]
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Here are three video clops that shed more light of this absurd defense.
Jake Tapper fact-checks President Trump’s defense team during Senate impeachment trial
Of course the Trump* defense team lied. If they weren’t lying, displaying hate and racism, or acting out predatory greed, we could not tell they’re Republicans.
What Trump’s defense team left out of their impeachment defense
The Republican Reich is desperate to keep the truth away from American Voters.
Joe: A Confederacy Of Dunces Defends President Donald Trump
Joe Scarborough was hilarious, but I think these folks were stating the obvious. If these lawyers were anything but a Confederation of Dunces, they would not be defending the criminal Fuhrer Trump*!
RESIST!!
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Good informative videos. Joe nailed it!
Lots of lies and bs from the repugs. What a cluster. Ugh!
Beep! Beep! Beep! The semi-trucks are backing up to the loading dock to pick up the BS loads that they’re doling out.
With the R’s living in an alternate reality, the ship of state might also be compared to De Vliegende Hollander. WRT A Confederacy of Dunces. I haven’t read the book (#58 in the 2019 Great American Read, beating out The Hunt for Red October and Beloved) nor seen the play (not many people have), and the movie hasn’t been made, so I can’t say how apt it is from that standpoint, but I’m inclined to see them more as clowns and jokers – or grifters and mobsters – myself. I don’t think they are as dumb as they are willing to look. But predictions are all iffy at this point.
I don’t really think they are dumb, but their arguments are idiotic, because they are arguing to convince idiots, the rabid Republican base.
Trump defenders: Nothing but bullshit, as expected. Of course the 2 senators raged and turned rad in the face, they have nothing to offer but bluster. Bondi was a POS in ’13, and remains so.
CNN: Fact checking anything coming from anyone on the Trump team will come to the same foregone conclusion as above.
MSNBC: Well, Sekulow was not actually lying in the bit we saw at the start, when he said none of the witnesses could produce anything directly linking the resident to the withholding of funds, because, of course, the WH has stonewalled like crazy. Not that Sekulow may not have had prior knowledge of the Bolton book, but Bolton has not had a chance to say the words in testimony. Will he get that chance? I would not bet the farm on it.
I know that Morning Joe, and the rest have jobs to do, parsing the news, but it is essentially all the same, insofar as Trump’s protectors: venal scumbags doing his bidding!
Actually, that’s not true. Gordon Sondland is a witness that directly connected Trump with the crime.
Some good news is definitely coming out of this whole affair, such as Rethuglicans not having the votes to block witnesses.
Liked the videos.
Agree with Freya that I feel that the R’s aren’t winning like they think they are.
I’m thinking that they will have witnesses and once they do, tRump is doomed.
Do you know what is really absurd? The fact that despite every Republican in the room knew they were lies, the millions of Trump voters will take on this show of lies hook, line and sinker and will vote for Trump again.
Do you know what is even more absurd? The fact that Chief Justice John Roberts allowed fraud to be perpetrated on the court over which he himself was presiding, that he knew it was so and that he did nothing to stop it.
Do you know what is the most absurd? The fact that Chief Justice John Roberts allowed Trump’s attorneys to further soil Bidens reputation and allowed Trump to further abuse his power and use the whole of Congress for his own political gain.
I doubt it is the last day of stupidity, assuming of course that McTurtle does not call a vote! There are still the questions from the senators to be answered.
Joe said that Trump’s defence team is a “Confederacy of Dunces”. LMAO!!! An apt description of it and Republicans in general. How do we know that the Dunces are lying just like Trump? Their mouths are moving! Joe certainly went on a rant that was hilarious. I wonder if his guests got a chance to comment.
It won’t be the last day of stupidity until the demise of the Republican Party, but I was referring only to that phase of the trial.
I’m afraid the demise of stupidity will have to wait until the demise of the last living homo sapiens.
Thanks and Hump Day Hugs to all!