“I have no idea what he’s doing. Maybe he’ll bring it home, but right now, it does not appear to me to be effective advocacy.”
~ Alan Dershowitz on the weak opening of Bruce Castor
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team chose a “folksy” opening instead of starting with an argument, according to legal expert Alan Dershowitz on Newsmax TV.
Dershowitz couldn’t figure out what he was doing.
Shortly after Bruce Castor began Trump’s defense Tuesday afternoon, Dershowitz questioned Castor’s style on “American Agenda.”
“There is no argument; I have no idea what he’s doing,” Dershowitz told co-hosts Heather Childers and Bob Sellers. “I have no idea why he’s saying what he’s saying.
“He’s introducing himself: ‘I’m a nice guy; I like my senators; I know my senators; senators are great people.’ C’mon, the American people are entitled to an argument, a constitutional argument.”
In calling Castor’s approach “folksy,” Dershowitz said sometimes that works – but time will tell if this was such an occasion.
“[Castor] did say, I think very appropriately, that everybody wants to take revenge when they see a horrible [riot] that took place at the Capitol,” Dershowitz said. “But then he went off. I just don’t understand it. Maybe he’ll bring it home, but right now it does not appear to me to be effective advocacy.”
We know the answer right now. Folksy with these vipers is ridiculous. The Democrats were well-prepared and did a better job, showing professionally edited videos of the violence and the attacks on the police.
What is this man doing? Maybe he wanted to contrast in a positive way? Get him off the podium.
Watch:
How bad is Bruce Castor’s presentation in defense of Trump so far? Newsmax cuts into it so Alan Dershowitz can trash it.
“There is no argument. I have no idea what he’s doing. I have no idea why he’s saying what he’s saying!” pic.twitter.com/3tVD9V3UcZ
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) February 9, 2021
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The main story here is that no decent person convicts Trump. The trial is the farce, not the Castor opening statement.
Castor failed. Schoen did not. If you listened carefully to Schoen’s words and references to the Constitution, he eviscerated the opening arguments of the House Managers.
The DoJ can put Trump on trial if they wish. The Senate can do nothing. There is no path to 67 votes. The entire Kangaroo Court is a political theater presentation.
A play by play for government actions! This should be a thing.
Have all sides in a point counterpoint set up.
Laugh tracks, applause signs, honking clown horns, spotlights, jugglers, mimes, wrestling chairs, popcorn machines on the set, the whole nine yards.
Oh wait…the snowflakes can’t handle any opinion outside of the hive, never mind.
The only failures by President Trump is most of his choices of people who surrounded him during his presidency. In the business world he chose people who wanted to help him accomplish his goals. In politics almost the entire gene pool is made up of self serving swamp creatures. Many of his choices were really good taking advantage of doing the right thing for the citizens of our country but most were at best incompetent like Sessions or backstabbers like Barr. Makes me wonder if Bill Barr or President Trump’s other backstabbers had something to do with choosing Castor.
It’s like the Trump defense is just playing along to get along so President Trump can get this out of the way. Once this is out of the way, the door is open to building a Media Empire and potentially a New Party if Republicans don’t wise up. Democrats are already having buyers remorse. It’s crossed my mind that President Trump will just let things get so bad that Democrats lose the House and Senate in 2022 to Real Republican Conservatives with ZERO connections to China. I think the Traitor Joe / Heals Up Harris administration could be so bad that after 2 years they both would be impeached and a Republican Speaker becomes President. What if President Trump runs for a House Seat In Florida in 2022? Florida will gain 2 House seats and Trump could move to one of those new Districts for an easy win into the House. It would be poetic justice for Trump to gain the Presidency via the Speaker position; something Pelosi dreamed of. A President Trump could run again in 2024 and DeSantis would be a good VP. There is hope! Rebellions Are Built on Hope. The first order of business is Paper Ballots, In-person ID required voting, and the ability to hand count only originally cast ballots.