Trump impeachment attorney says he won't bring up 'stolen' election claims

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Donald Trump’s lead defense attorney for the upcoming Senate impeachment trial said Wednesday he has not been pressured to reprise the former president’s unsubstantiated claims that the election was “stolen” from him, insisting that his defense of Trump will focus strictly on “technical” arguments.

The comments from Bruce Castor, a former Philadelphia-area district attorney, come a day after his team’s first official response to the impeachment charge explicitly doubled down on the former president’s false allegations about widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

“There are plenty of questions about how the election was conducted throughout the country, but that’s for a different forum, and I don’t believe that’s important to litigate in the Senate trial because you don’t need it,” Castor said on KYW Newsradio Philadelphia. “President Trump has plenty to win with what he has.”

Trump parted ways with his initial legal team over the weekend in part because they refused to advance the fraud claims, but Castor insisted he was not pressured to adopt that strategy ahead of the trial, which begins next Tuesday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-impeachment-attorney-says-he-wont-bring-up-stolen-election-claims/ar-BB1dmhrg?li=BBnb7Kz

[BusyBeingBest]

1. The GOP Senate will tell his attorneys what arguments they'll accept, and that will be that.

[Gothmog]

2. Trump doubles down on false election claim in impeachment response

Did this idiot read the brief that he filed? https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/02/house-impeachment-brief-trump-responsible-capitol-attack-464930

Trump’s legal team filed its first official response to the House’s impeachment charge later Tuesday, denying that the former president sought to subvert the election results and incited the violence at the Capitol. The submission foreshadowed Trump’s legal strategy for the trial, which begins next Tuesday but is not expected to last as long as last year’s three-week trial.

Trump’s lawyers, Bruce Castor and David Schoen, also advanced the former president’s false claims that the election results were “suspect,” asserting that Trump has a First Amendment right to express that view.

“Insufficient evidence exists upon which a reasonable jurist could conclude that the 45th president’s statements were accurate or not, and he therefore denies they were false,” Castor and Schoen wrote, adding that Trump “denies” it is false to say he won the election “in a landslide.”

Castor and Schoen only joined Trump’s legal team in the last few days, after the initial defense attorneys pulled out over disagreements about whether to buttress Trump’s false claims about the election. Even some of Trump’s allies are warning the legal team against leaning into Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations as part of the defense strategy.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. They carefully, though not very convincingly, tiptoed around it:

“Insufficient evidence exists upon which a reasonable jurist could conclude that the 45th president’s statements were accurate or not, and he therefore denies they were false,” Castor and Schoen wrote, adding that Trump “denies” it is false to say he won the election “in a landslide.” That is to say, they claim Trump reasonably believed the false election claims and that there isn't enough evidence to say for sure his statements weren't true. They just barely avoided a flat-out lie with this language, but let's see what happens when they have to present the case to the Senate.

[Volaris]

8. '...and there isnt enough evidence to say for sure, his statements wernt true.'

My ass lol

The sufficient evidence that he KNEW it wasnt stolen is that every single state board and SoS had certified their own election tallies as legit.


You're correct that they're very barely avoiding an outright lie. That said, they're better at this than anyone who likened themselves trumps Press Secretary for 4 years, that's for damn sure...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Let's see how long that lasts.

Trump will be watching on TV and at some point he'll lose his shit, call the lawyers and insist that they bring up the "stolen" election - which puts them in an impossible position because lawyers can't lie to a tribunal (which is why the previous team quit). Does he then fire the new lawyers when they refuse to do that? Do they quit first? Does Trump swoop in to defend himself?

Stay tuned. At this point nothing would surprise me.

[Towlie]

4. It seems to me that nobody is qualified to evaluate a "technical" argument except a judge.

 
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The defense attorneys would really only be suggesting excuses for the Republican senators to use after they vote to exonerate. They might as well say "Tell your constituents this..."

[SunSeeker]

5. But he already did! It's in his piece of shit 14-page brief that misspelled United States.

[lame54]

7. Boring...

They can't compete with the action packed narrative the prosecution will bring