2m ago
20:47
Alan
Dershowitz, who served as a member of Donald Trump’s defense team during his
first impeachment trial, criticized Bruce Castor’s rambling opening
presentation.
“There is no argument. I have no idea what he is
doing,” Dershowitz told the conservative outlet Newsmax. “I have no idea why
he’s saying what he’s saying.”
Dershowitz
said Castor was too focused on “talking nice” to senators rather than making a
“constitutional argument” for why the impeachment trial should be dismissed.
“I have no
idea what he’s doing. Maybe he’ll bring it home, but right now it doesn’t
appear to be effective advocacy,” Dershowitz said. “Boy, it’s not the kind of
argument I would have made. I’ll tell you that.”
4m ago
20:55
Bruce
Castor closed his opening comments by acknowledging that Donald Trump’s defense
team was caught off guard by the strength of the House
impeachment managers’ presentation.
The former president’s lawyer said the defense
team reshuffled because they thought the managers’ presentation would focus
only on the question of Senate jurisdiction rather than recounting the violence
and destruction of the January 6 insurrection.
“We have
counter-arguments to literally everything they have raised, and you will hear
them later in the case,” Castor said.
And with
that, he handed things over to another member of Trump’s defense team, David
Schoen.
51s ago
21:01
As he concluded his opening comments, Bruce
Castor also bizarrely seemed to suggest Donald Trump should be arrested if the
allegations at the heart of the impeachment trial are true.
“A high crime is a felony, and a misdemeanor is a
misdemeanor,” Castor said. “After he’s out of office, you go and arrest him.
... The department of justice does know what to do with such people. And so
far, I haven’t seen any activity in that direction.”
2m ago
16:10
David Schoen, a member of Donald Trump’s legal team,
accused Democrats of abusing the impeachment power to gain a political
advantage.
The former president’s lawyer argued Democrats are
pursuing impeachment because they are still mad about the results of the 2016
election. (The impeachment managers’ opening argument focused exclusively on
the violent insurrection at the Capitol last month, which Trump incited.)
“I promise you that if these proceedings go forward,
everyone will look bad,” Schoen said, warning that the trial would “open up new
and bigger wounds across the nation”.
Schoen then appeared to suggest that the impeachment
trial could spark another civil war, saying, “This trial will tear this country
apart, perhaps like we have only seen once before in American history.”
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