Former President Donald Trump had a really difficult time coming up with a legal team that was willing to represent him through his second impeachment trial after he incited a violent insurrection at our nation’s Capitol on the day Congress was set to certify the electoral votes that cost him a second term at the presidency.
Trump’s struggles to find an attorney or two started early on, pretty much as soon as the House decided they were going to impeach. It seemed no one wanted to defend him against something as sickening and horrendous as egging on an attack against one of our nation’s most important buildings. Then, Trump did what he always does and made the situation that much worse for himself when he had the gall to argue with the ones who were willing to defend him in an effort to haggle down their fees.
Donald was ultimately able to throw a half-baked legal team together but his struggles to find a semblance of a decent team is more than apparent through their performance in this week’s trial alone.
Frankly, Trump attorney Bruce Castor’s performance at his client’s impeachment trial this week was less than impressive — even to Trump himself, according to reports.
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However, his faithful lapdog Lindsey Graham has been quick to pacify the former president and let him know that he’s confident everything will be okay, his cronies in the Senate still have his back.
According to a report from The Hill, Graham spoke with Trump on Tuesday night and “reinforced” to him that the “case is over,” it’s now only a matter of “getting the final verdict.”
After Trump’s hand in the violent January 6th riot, this impeachment trial has already been more bipartisan in the Senate than his first — with 10 Republicans voting to impeach and 5 voting to move forward with the trial by deeming it constitutional. That number went up to 6 when Senator Bill Cassidy joined his colleagues Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Pat Toomey, and Lisa Murkowski.
Cassidy released a statement on his vote, saying, “If anyone disagrees with my vote and would like an explanation, I ask them to listen to the arguments presented by the House managers and former President Trump’s lawyers. The House managers had much stronger constitutional arguments. The president’s team did not.”
The report states that Graham and Trump “mostly talked” about the vote and Graham spent a good portion of the talk trying to remind Donald that 44 Republicans voted in favor of dismissing the case, calling the impeachment of a former president unconstitutional. Graham suggested that Trump could count on those 44 senators to also vote to not convict him.
Ultimately, 16 of the 44 Republican senators who voted to dismiss Trump’s case would have to vote to convict him in the Senate trial to avoid a second acquittal.
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