EX-WATERGATE COUNSEL THINKS TRUMP MIGHT'VE WRITTEN SOME

[elleng]

OF HIS IMPEACHMENT LEGAL BRIEF BECAUSE IT'S SO BAD.

'John Dean, who once served as a White House counsel for former President Richard Nixon, on Sunday speculated that President Donald Trump might have dictated some of his own impeachment defense brief because it is "not legally sophisticated."

In the first legal filings of the Senate impeachment trial, which is expected to commence on Tuesday, Trump's legal defense team rejected Democrats' assertion that the president's actions in Ukraine amounted to an impeachable offense and dismissed the charges against him as a "brazen and unlawful" attempt to tarnish his re-election bid in 2020. Meanwhile, the House's impeachment managers laid out an extensive case for why he should be removed from office.

Dean denounced Trump's legal defense brief in an interview with CNN host Ana Cabrera on Sunday. He claimed that "members of the Senate" won't buy into it because they're mostly lawyers.

"I think it's actually going to insult some of the lawyers in the Senate if they're more detailed brief is of the same tone, they're making a serious mistake. Lawyers are not going to buy into this. Most members of the Senate, both parties are lawyers," Dean said, before claiming that Trump's team has doubled down on false statements and distortions of fact.'>>>

https://www.newsweek.com/ex-watergate-counsel-thinks-trump-mightve-written-some-his-impeachment-legal-brief-because-its-1482974?

'Lawyers are not going to buy into this. Most members of the Senate, both parties are lawyers,"'

[Leghorn21]

1. Does "not legally sophisticated" mean "the most moronic faux 'legal' hogwash anyone ever wrote?"

I bet it does!!

HI MR. DEAN

[Mme. Defarge]

2. Kinda like that "perfect transcript"?

God willing and the creek don’t rise!

[guillaumeb]

3. All of this is imnportant to note,

as long as the US media repeatedly details how McConnell, the Jury Foreman, is working closely with the defendant.

[Frustratedlady]

4. Trump's legal defense brief is a tweet-brief.

When I first started reading their report, I saw so many of Trump's former tweet comments, I had to laugh out loud.

That group of "lawyers" is closer to an ineffectual committee. I can just picture Trump screaming his demands that they include his perfect comments and finishes with them being a bunch of idiots and boneheads.

Next, he'll tell them he doesn't owe them their fees because he did most of the work!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Could be

This document reads like one of the president’s speeches at his campaign rallies. The language is a little more lawyerly, if only a little. In Sekulow and Cipollone’s hands, Trump’s cries of “Witch Hunt!” have turned into “lawless process that violated basic due process and fundamental fairness.” His allegations that Democrats are a “disgrace” have turned into “an affront to the Constitution.” And Trump’s insistence that there’s a plot to destroy his presidency has become a “highly partisan and reckless obsession with impeaching the president [which] began the day he was inaugurated and continues to this day.”

But the message is unchanged. It’s not a legal argument. It’s a howl of rage.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-impeachment-brief-is-a-howl-of-rage/ar-BBZ9qEs?ocid=msn360

[Haggis for Breakfast]

6. Chris Hayes had Laurence Tribe on and asked him about the comments of

trumpie's defense. He actually said, "I don't know where to begin."

[burrowowl]

7. K&R

[tclambert]

8. Does it mention how big his inauguration crowd was? Or Hillary's emails?

Trump has a lot of trouble staying on topic.