“We all know there are many systems and other countries around the world that do not offer any semblance of safeguard our constitutional concept of due process provides,” Trump defense attorney David Schoen said Tuesday, holding aloft a copy of “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.”
Rather than defend his client against impeachment, Schoen tried indicting the process and Democrats by waving a book he never named and many Trump fans wouldn’t recognize.
Schoen’s antics may not matter in the end. It is unlikely that enough Senate Republicans will vote to convict the former president. (It will take 17.) Someone suggested a vote to acquit could haunt them like the Iraq War vote did for Democrats.
“Dems will tie the insurrection around their necks and ask voters: Can you ever trust Republicans again?” tweets Susie Madrak, referencing this article in Roll Call:
The campaign arm of House Republicans is targeting 47 Democratic incumbents in next year’s midterm elections, the first sign of where the battle lines will be drawn as the GOP seeks to retake the chamber.
The National Republican Congressional Committee’s list, shared with CQ Roll Call on Wednesday, includes 29 districts that either did not back President Joe Biden or supported their House incumbent by 5 points or less. The list also includes eight Democrats who won by less than 10 points and underperformed Biden, and 10 members the NRCC believes could face redistricting trouble next year.
Democrats lost a net 11 House seats in 2020 and 13 incumbents.
Republicans have their own target list, of course. Prior history favors the party out of power in mid-term elections.
But then, no prior president has tried not only to overturn the results of a national election, but the national government itself. What is unclear is how public oipnion will shift with multiple viewings of the the House impeachment managers’ video (below) and other heretofore unseen evidence they have to present against Trump and, by extension, elected supporters in his party.
Naturally, conservative news outlets will avoid showing the video.
House impeachment managers should tie these guys to Trump with whatever supplementary evidence they have. The FBI already has loads. These people are wanted for assault on a federal officer (AFO) or assault on the media (AOM). There are more. Many, many more at the link.
