The week
Trump has yet to admit his defeat in the elections. But his impeachment lawyer, Bruce Castor, yes, several times.
Former President Donald Trump was reportedly furious at his impeachment trial advocacy team, especially attorney Bruce Castor, criticized across the board for his strange opening statement. “Cocooned on his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump watched as his defense lawyers responded to an emotional presentation by the House’s impeachment managers with a series of dry, technical and sometimes sinuous arguments about due process and constitutionality. of procedures “, Policy Reports. “As they spoke monotonously, he became increasingly frustrated by the sharp contrast between the silent response and the prosecution’s opening salvo.” But Trump, watching the trial at Newsmax, was not just discouraged by Castor’s low-energy performance and negative criticism from allies and senators, the Politico reports. Castor refused to use “graphics or video – tools that his TV-obsessed client hoped to deploy”. And the ex-president was upset with Castor “he wore a badly adjusted suit and at one point praised the case presented by the Democratic House impeachment managers,” adds The Washington Post, although Trump himself was also supposedly impressed with the managers impeachment and its video presentation. And Castor notably “did what Trump himself didn’t: he admitted that Joe Biden won the presidential election,” notes the Associated Press. He called Trump “ex-president”, said he “was ousted by voters” and argued that Americans are “smart enough to choose a new government if they don’t like the old one, and just did.” Trump continues to falsely insist that he really won the election, and this “big lie” – that the election was “stolen” from him – underpins his entire impeachment trial. Castor was using Trump’s status as a former president to defend his case, rejected by the Senate, that it is unconstitutional to try a president after he leaves office. In fact, “Trump initially pressured his impeachment lawyers to make the unfounded case that the election was stolen,” reports the Post, “an approach they rejected while arguing that the First Amendment protects their client’s rights. to share false information and false claims. “More stories from theweek.comDominion says it had to hire detectives to track down Sidney Powell and turn her over to her $ 1.3 billion lawsuit. Coons: Trump’s impeachment defense is “the landscaping of the Four Seasons of the legal profession”. Biden almost certainly has full access to Trump’s secret links to Putin, other world leaders