How statements by Republican lawmakers have made things harder for Trump's legal team

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense is looking more threadbare: New statements by Republican lawmakers appear to undercut key claims from his defense team about how much Trump knew about the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, and when he knew it.

New details emerged Friday about a call between Trump and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy in the midst of the attack. First recounted in January by Washington state Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, who was one of just 10 House Republicans to vote for impeachment, the call gives insight into Trump’s state of mind on the day of the insurrection and suggests his sympathies lay with the rioters.

“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump reportedly told McCarthy as rioters stormed the Capitol.

The defense had argued that “the president would never have wanted such a riot to occur because his longstanding hatred for violent protesters,” but Trump’s conversation with McCarthy — as well as his long history of inciting violence well before the attack on the Capitol — flies in the face of that claim.

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Since most of the GOP is in thrall to Trump it probably doesn't matter.

[KPN]

1. What astounds me is the "when he knew it" charade. He fucking

instigated the invasion of the Capitol Bldg and intimated that Pence was a traitor before instructing his crowd to March on the Capitol now. That any American citizen who saw any of the news on January 6th needs anything more is just mind-boggling — because it’s blatantly disingenuous, and intensely disheartening because they know it — meaning they were not averse to an attempted coup.

[Nitram]

2. It didn't matter what they said. The vote would have been the same. It was a foregone conclusion. I

have only respect for the Republicans that voted to convict.