{"id":38807,"date":"2020-01-28T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38807"},"modified":"2020-01-28T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:10:18","slug":"slinging-it-for-the-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/28\/slinging-it-for-the-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Slinging it for the Criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re now in the third and last day of stupidity, as displayed by the clown car of hypocrites representing impeached criminal, Donald \u201cquid pro quo\u201d Trump*.  Apparently the release of information from John Bolton\u2019s 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.<\/font><\/p>\n

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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<\/a>. The last thing I saw was Republican Senators John Barrasso and Mike Braun<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake about it. From about 4 o\u2019clock, 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\u2019s license would have been pulled by lunchtime<\/strong>. However, Chief Justice John Roberts, perhaps exhausted by the effort it took to extend the work of Breckinridge Long<\/a> into the 21st century on Monday morning, sat there like one of the marble vice presidents in the niches of the visitor\u2019s galleries above. A fraud was perpetrated on the court over which Roberts was presiding, and he had to know it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I thought the defense case had scraped bottom when Ken Starr was brought out of cold storage<\/a> 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<\/a>, in 2013, buried that state\u2019s investigation into the fraudulent Trump University after a $25,000 check from the Trump Foundation landed in her campaign account<\/strong>. At the moment, she\u2019s making $115-large as a lobbyist for the government of Qatar<\/a>. 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<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u2019d put a menu from Denny\u2019s in Bondi\u2019s folder, she\u2019d have blamed Hunter Biden for the Grand Slam breakfast<\/strong>.  [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Esquire<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Here are three video clops that shed more light of this absurd defense.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jake Tapper fact-checks President Trump’s defense team during Senate impeachment trial<\/a><\/p>\n