Trump's legal team to launch unbridled attack on Biden

[RandySF]

President Donald Trump is the one on trial, but brace yourself Saturday to hear an awful lot about Joe Biden.

After sitting silently on the Senate floor for three full days, White House and personal lawyers to the president plan to turn his impeachment trial into an uninterrupted attack on the former vice president — a frontrunner to be the Democrats’ 2020 nominee.

“Believe me, you'll hear about that issue,” Jay Sekulow, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, told reporters Friday in the Capitol during brief remarks where he previewed how the president’s legal team planned to use its allotted 24 hours of time to air a long list of familiar Trump grievances, including unsubstantiated charges of corruption against Biden.

It’s not the strategy most lawyers would take when a president’s job is on the line. But this is the Trump era and any norms from past impeachment fights appear to be out the window. More than anything, Trump’s lawyers are aiming to use their nationally-televised platform to stamp out any lingering consideration by a handful of Senate Republicans to join Democrats in demanding new witnesses and documents to aid their prosecution.




https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/25/trump-impeachment-senate-104096

[LakeArenal]

1. Unleash the Kraken. Joe and his supporters can take it

[Thekaspervote]

2. Every time dotard opens his mouth about Joe his poll numbers go up!!

[Cirque du So-What]

3. If rumpco had anything, we'd have heard it by now

Hair fuhrer can’t keep a secret. They’ve got jack shit.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Meanwhile, Donald J Trump remains guilty AF.

His lawyers simply aren't defending him, you know, with evidence, witnesses and truth.

[Doreen]

5. Biden isn't the one on trial you stupid SOB.

I probably might be the only one but this type of thing just makes me stand behind Biden even more.

[highplainsdem]

6. David Axelrod tweeted this morning that Trump told his team to wait till Monday to go after Biden:

No idea who his source is, but here's the tweet:

Link to tweet

Team @realDonaldTrump holds expected broadsides against @JoeBiden for Monday, apparently at direction of producer Trump, who felt Saturday ratings are lacking.

[karynnj]

8. I wonder if it was to have a war of the visions of what Trump did on the Sunday talk shows

Then and attack on Biden on Monday.

[Baclava]

7. Its just the start, expect a full bore, non-stop attack on Biden for the next 9 months

If Joe wins the primaries

Its how he operates, the onslaught will be brutal and continuous once he sets his sights on his target.

Forget any and all policy talk, that wont matter with him, he will make it personal

[Skya Rhen]

9. Joe will win the Primaries but if by some fluke he doesn't, Trump will attack whoever is nominated,

non-stop.

[Baclava]

10. True, but Joe is his natural target, he likes Bernie and he can't attack Liz for just being a woman

He'd lose the white working class women vote especially if he goes after her too hard, I think

Just my observation, Joe is a target rich environment for him