GOP Senators Are Openly Colluding With Trump's Defense Team To Get Republican Acquittal Votes

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The road to a conviction was always going to be long, but the fact that GOP lawmakers are meeting behind the scenes with Trump’s defense team shows just how effective the impeachment managers were this week.

Not to mention: Trump’s attorneys showed up at the trial and immediately face planted on the Senate floor, sending the ex-president into a rage as he watched from Mar-a-Lago.

While the odds are low that 17 GOP senators will put country over Trump, it’s clear that at least some Republicans in the chamber were moved by the case made by the impeachment managers.

That’s why Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Mike Lee (R-UT) were huddling with Donald Trump’s defense team to craft a legal strategy that would limit the number of Republicans who vote to convict.

MSNBC’s Garrett Haake reported on Thursday night that a handful of GOP senators met privately with Trump’s defense team to “discuss legal strategy” ahead of Friday’s presentation.

“Senators Graham, Cruz and Lee met with the Trump defense team for quite a while after the arguments had wrapped up today to discuss legal strategy for tomorrow,” Haake reported.

“They’re working hand in glove – the Trump defense team and some of his most closely aligned senators – to come up with an argument that will allow their fellow Republicans, enough of them anyway, to vote to acquit,” he added.

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[tanyev]

1. I don't want to hear one damn peep of Republican outrage over the Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch

airport tarmac meeting ever again.

[Me.]

2. They Can't Do Anything Without Cheating

[LastDemocratInSC]

3. So much for the concept of impartial justice.

This is the jury tampering with the defense lawyers instead of the other way around. It's the scenario that mob bosses dream about.

[abqtommy]

4. Ratfuckers gotta ratfuck. But that doesn't mean we can't ratfuck them back!

[Corgigal]

5. Just don't ask the Capitol police

to ever do a thing for you. You’re on your own. Buy your own security. You had a chance to honor their service, but you wanted to play politics instead.

[TryLogic]

6. The solution lies in the justice system.

AND... A law that requires all viable presidential and VP candidates to pass a top security clearance screening in advance !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The need for this is pretty damn obvious.

[badboy67]

7. Putin smiles.