Impeachment trial - I'm finding it very difficult to watch the defense lawyers as they are twisting

[iluvtennis]

the words of what some democrats had said in the past regarding 2016 election, what they said about the BLM protesters, saying that the House Managers manipulated video, etc.

It's so disgusting.

[underpants]

1. They appear to have had teams of people pouring over little details

I fully suspect that some of this is flat out BS.

[iluvtennis]

4. + agree, a lot of BS being spewed by the defense. nt

[FM123]

2. Me too.

I am not going to be able to finish my lunch at this rate - I may have to turn it off for a while just so I can swallow my food....

[iluvtennis]

3. Yes, this BS will affect your digestion - mute the audio while you eat. nt

[Takket]

5. "Whataboutism " is not a defense

Even if Pelosi was on tape saying “I hope BLM burns Minneapolis to the ground and kills every cop in the city” it makes no difference to whether or not drumpf incited the insurrection.

[iluvtennis]

6. + agree. What the defense is presenting has nothing to do with trump inciting insurrection.

Just throwing out red herrings which the right will fall for.

[DSandra]

8. They are playing victim to try to discredit the Impeachment managers case

Basically trying to say not to listen to the Democrats’ evidence because they “maliciously” presented it in a distorted way.

Unfortunately I think it’s enough to get at least the Republicans watching at home who may have had second thoughts about Trump to go and side with Trump again just because they share the collected victimhood mentality.

[Bayard]

7. I'm wondering how many rethuglicans in the room

Are snoring now, or bothered to show up. How did this guy ever win criminal cases?

They're replaying the same video now that they showed earlier--cherry-picked to say what they want it to.

[iluvtennis]

9. Yes. They have shown the video with prominent Dems saying "fight" at least 3 times. It'll be the

sound bite on Fox tonight as the video has all of the Dems right wingers love to hate in it - Biden, Hillary, Nancy, Kamala, Maxine Waters, Stacey Abrams, the squad.

BUT the missing link is that none of the Dems in the video clip were inciting a mob that was standing in the front of the Capitol.