One in every of his handpicked congressional advocates, Consultant Jim Jordan of Ohio — your ears should be ringing from his defense of the Preside
One in every of his handpicked congressional advocates, Consultant Jim Jordan of Ohio — your ears should be ringing from his defense of the President in the House — made the rounds on Fox Information Tuesday. (Within the Senate chamber, Mr. Trump’s private lawyer Jay Sekulow additionally appeared conscious of the excessive decibel stage that his ever-watching consumer prefers.)
In the meantime, Alan Dershowitz of O.J. Simpson protection fame, whose months of cable-jabber Trump defenses have been like an off-the-cuff audition for the White Home authorized group, put in an early-hours media blitz. On CNN Monday, he defended to Anderson Cooper his flip-flop since he argued, through the Invoice Clinton impeachment case, that an precise crime is just not required to question a president. “I wasn’t flawed,” Mr. Dershowitz mentioned. “I’m simply way more appropriate now.”
It was no “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit,” nevertheless it was a begin.
The Democratic Home impeachment managers likewise tried to broaden the sphere of argument, partially by interlacing their speeches with video clips of witnesses from the Home hearings within the fall. Apart from breaking apart the visible monotony throughout a marathon telecast, these served as a form of “Beforehand on …” recap for the house and Senate audiences.
But additionally, whereas they laid out an argument for calling new witnesses like the previous nationwide safety adviser John Bolton, the Democrats used video as a method to summon digital testimony.
They referred to as President Trump and his appearing chief of employees, Mick Mulvaney, in news-file clips. (“Let’s go to the videotape,” Consultant Hakeem Jeffries of New York mentioned.) They even launched Lev Parnas, the businessman who labored with the president’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani on his Ukraine strain marketing campaign, by way of his interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. The subsequent smartest thing to a subpoena is a TV distant.
Although Tuesday’s arguments have been principally procedural, the largest change — Mr. McConnell’s concession towards cramming arguments into two 12-hour days — was primarily a TV-scheduling choice. It meant that viewers wouldn’t be fed the trial as a large binge, and that controversial votes would extra seemingly be taken whereas viewers are nonetheless awake.