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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump tapes help incriminate the President at his own trial
Trump tapes help incriminate the President at his own trial
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-trial-witness/index.html
Washington (CNN)Can't get a new witness? Call Donald J. Trump.
Republicans might be blocking new testimony in the Senate trial but Democratic impeachment managers keep returning to the person who makes their case better than anyone: the President himself.
Trump, of course, is not literally in the Senate chamber -- though he said Wednesday he'd "love" to be in the front row to stare at his "corrupt" accusers.
But for Democrats, there's no better evidence with which to paint a picture of what they say is a self-dealing, obstructive leader with a kingly view of his own powers than the highlight reel already compiled by the most television-obsessed president in history.
"I have, in Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President," Trump says in one clip aired on Tuesday by lead impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California....................
................So Schiff dug out the famous clip from the 2016 election when Trump called on Russia, "if you are listening," to find Hillary Clinton's 30,000 "missing" emails. Last year's call by the President for China to "start an investigation into the Bidens" also came up, as did Trump's comment to George Stephanopoulos on ABC News that if a foreign power had election dirt: "I think I'd want to hear it."......................
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Trump tapes help incriminate the President at his own trial (Original Post)
riversedge
Jan 2020
OP
As Schiff laid out case against him, trump further implicates himself by
RestoreAmerica2020
Jan 2020
#4
bluedye33139
(1,474 posts)1. If someone confesses to something, that's hearsay.
I'm just joking. But that is the Republican talking point these days.
Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)3. It is not hearsay
It is an admission against interest and clearly admissible in court.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,789 posts)2. That still won't convince Lindsey and Mitch......
Even if it is Trump who is speaking.
They must be so far up Trump's ass, even if they were witnesses to a murder at Trump's own hand, they would acquit him. Claiming self defense.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,438 posts)4. As Schiff laid out case against him, trump further implicates himself by