Dare Trump to Testify - The Bulwark

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Good @Timodc case for making Trump testify

Dare Trump to Testify - The Bulwark
He should be called out as a coward if he refuses to take the stand in his own defense.
thebulwark.com
5:59 AM · Feb 2, 2021

https://thebulwark.com/dare-trump-to-testify/

Donald Trump attempted to overthrow an election and install himself as an autocrat.

This is an inconvenient truth for congressional Republicans who were complicit in the scheme—the 147 representatives and senators who joined in objecting to the Electoral College vote, plus the many others who helped propagate Trump’s lies—so they want his impeachment trial to be about something else. Anything else.

Some of them want to raise process questions, using constitutional mumbo jumbo conjured from the region of Jonathan Turley’s frontal cortex dedicated to maintaining his relevance.

Some of them want to parse the president’s rhetoric. Was it a little too hot or too cold? Didn’t he once use the word “peaceful”? Have there been liberal politicians in the past who have said something vaguely similar to what Trump said that the Democrats now label incitement?

Some of them want to turn the proceedings into a circus. Lindsey Graham suggested calling the QAnon shaman to the stand, and last night on Fox threatened to drag the trial out for months with new witnesses to derail the Biden agenda.

This is the turf where the Republicans think they win. The pedantic. The preposterous. The political gamesmanship.

The turf where they lose? Donald Trump’s actions. His ongoing refusal to own up to his lies.

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[DonaldsRump]

1. "I would love to testify. But my lawyers, my beautiful lawyers, tell me not to"

Trump's likely and standard response to the many legal issues he has faced, is facing, and will face.

[KS Toronado]

2. Wonder if QepubliCONs will still be talking about Qrump's stolen election in 2024?

Will these idiots ever quit lying about Qrump's big lie?

[NCjack]

3. Qonald is a scaredy-cat! 'Fraid of the Senate!

[LAS14]

4. I don't want him to have a podium from which to continue to spout his lies. nt

[Blue Owl]

5. C'mon Diarrhea Donny -- Testify! Testify!