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    Default What does Trump's defense look like in a Senate trial?

    Trying to wrap my head around how Trump manages to keep himself composed enough in a Senate trial where he won't be able to tweet, blurt out, and will have to do the homework of building a defense.

    I think Trump thinks McConnell runs the trial...but he doesn't. Chief Justice Roberts presides over the Senate trial. I don't think Trump realizes that. I think he thinks McConnell will rig the trial for him. Would love to watch Trump take the stand. LOL. That'd be something to see.
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    Roberts, as conservative as he is, is the only firewall in the SCOTUS to stop hardcore right wing treachery

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    BURN THE MOTHERFUCKIN' LIFEBOATS
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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    BURN THE MOTHERFUCKIN' LIFEBOATS
    The entire racist right republican party and anyone who supports them directly or indirectly need to go!

    That includes moderates and those who want to compromise with them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    BURN THE MOTHERFUCKIN' LIFEBOATS
    For someone afraid of his shadow, you talk big.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    The entire racist right republican party and anyone who supports them directly or indirectly need to go!

    That includes moderates and those who want to compromise with them.
    Yeppers.

    It also includes:

    "But I'm really a fiscal conservative"

    "But I'm really a Libertarian"

    BoTh SiDeRiStS

    Anyone who has ever said "I didn't support the tweeting"

    Anyone who stapled a teabag to their face.

    Anyone who calls it the "Democrat Party".

    Anyone who thinks centrism means finding common ground with putting kids in cages.
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    I don't believe any Conservative has given any thought to how a trial of Trump in the Senate would play out.

    What do they imagine his defense will be? Printing up blog posts from Infowars and JPP and screaming like a barnyard animal.

    In a trial, Trump can't tweet, he can't interrupt...and if he takes the stand, will be cross-examined.

    Does anyone here truly believe the guy who won't even sit for a deposition unless he's threatened with jailtime, will keep himself composed during a weeks- or months-long Senate trial that lays out all the shit he's admitted to, and the shit he hasn't?
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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    Trying to wrap my head around how Trump manages to keep himself composed enough in a Senate trial where he won't be able to tweet, blurt out, and will have to do the homework of building a defense.

    I think Trump thinks McConnell runs the trial...but he doesn't. Chief Justice Roberts presides over the Senate trial. I don't think Trump realizes that. I think he thinks McConnell will rig the trial for him. Would love to watch Trump take the stand. LOL. That'd be something to see.
    Donnie would be in a no win situation. If he tell the truth he is impeached. If he lies to Congress, he is impeached. The man is incapable of completing a single sentence without lying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    Trying to wrap my head around how Trump manages to keep himself composed enough in a Senate trial where he won't be able to tweet, blurt out, and will have to do the homework of building a defense.

    I think Trump thinks McConnell runs the trial...but he doesn't. Chief Justice Roberts presides over the Senate trial. I don't think Trump realizes that. I think he thinks McConnell will rig the trial for him. Would love to watch Trump take the stand. LOL. That'd be something to see.
    Moron thinks Trump would be sitting in the Senate.

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    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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    Mcconnel has power and uses it for evil. He will not allow Trump to be questioned. Roberts is a far righty corporatist. He is not looking for justice. The plutocracy is nigh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Donnie would be in a no win situation. If he tell the truth he is impeached. If he lies to Congress, he is impeached. The man is incapable of completing a single sentence without lying.
    ^^Another willful idiot that thinks Trump would be present.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    ^^Another willful idiot that thinks Trump would be present.

    Why wouldn't he be? Surely he would want to speak in his defense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Donnie would be in a no win situation. If he tell the truth he is impeached. If he lies to Congress, he is impeached. The man is incapable of completing a single sentence without lying.
    That's why I think in the time between a House vote on impeachment, and the commencement of a Senate trial, Trump abdicates the office in the middle of the night and absconds to Russia (no extradition), leaving the GOP and all his dumb supporters left carrying the baggage.

    That's what I don't think any of those on the right have considered. They are too wrapped up in provoking the liberals to have thought about what happens if Trump ditches them.
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