Juror In Impeachment Trial Reportedly Called Trump’s Defense Team “Our Side” When Talking To Reporters

They're not even trying to hide it.


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Three Republican senators allied with former President Donald Trump met with his impeachment defense team Thursday evening, showing that the jurors are not impartial. That was Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Mike Lee of Utah, and now we have Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt, who called Trump’s defense team “our side” when talking to reporters Thursday, the Kansas City Star reports.

“I’m not sure when our side starts, but Saturday’s looking better all the time,” Blunt told reporters Thursday in response to a question about when the trial was likely to conclude, according to the news outlet.

Blunt, along with 43 other Republicans, voted that the impeachment trial was unconstitutional on the first day, and, as the Star reports, “he has told reporters that he intends to vote that way throughout the proceeding.” It appears that there are a handful of Republicans that are breaking their oaths, and instead, are going through the impeachment process in a biased manner.

“Blunt argued Thursday that the evidence presented by House impeachment managers, outlining how Trump-aligned groups spent weeks preparing to attack the Capitol, undercut their case against the former president on the charge of incitement of insurrection,” the outlet reports.

“The one thing the House impeachment managers did add into the argument yesterday was the groups of people were preparing for weeks to assault the Capitol, which I think hurts their argument and I also think wasn’t available to them when they passed the impeachment resolution and said this was all the president,” Blunt said.

That seems to be a favorite talking point among Republicans. However, Trump has incited the attack for months by repeatedly claiming that the election was rigged. Well, someone was trying to rig the election, and his name is Donald J. Trump. The former president tried to overturn the election results because he sustained a massive, public, narcissistic injury.

Blunt said later in the day that nothing has occurred in the trial that “would change your mind if your view is that you can’t impeach a former president.”

And the problem there is that Trump was impeached before he left office. It’s now up to the Senate to determine if the former president should be convicted or acquitted, and it appears that Republicans have already made up their minds.

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