Schiff mauls Cipollone on
impeachment trial's first day
Yahoo News,
by
Jon Ward
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
1/21/2020 10:16:28 PM
On the first day of the Senate impeachment trial, President Trump’s lawyers were caught off-guard and unprepared. White House counsel Pat Cipollone and a crew of several other lawyers for the president arrived for their first day of the trial, apparently expecting things to start off slowly with sleepy arguments over the rules for the trial. Opening arguments were not expected until Wednesday.(Snip)Schiff ambushed Cipollone and Trump’s team of lawyers, launching immediately into a passionate, comprehensive and piercing set of arguments about why the House impeached the president in December for withholding $400 million in military aid to Ukraine to pressure its government
I dont trust Yahoo News as far as I can upchuck. They show there liberal bias. I only wish I didnt use their email.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/21/2020 10:38:37 PM (No. 294666)
Yahoo is a left wing propaganda organ. This piece reflect those views.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Avanti1 1/21/2020 10:40:02 PM (No. 294669)
The author of this article lives in an alternate universe where Schiff can do no wrong and Trump and his associates can do nothing right.
No wonder Yahoo News has no credibility.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Nimby 1/21/2020 10:48:21 PM (No. 294678)
Mauls? Schitt was chewed and spat out by the WH lawyers
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
AlpineLace 1/21/2020 10:54:54 PM (No. 294686)
Delusional...............they have more headlines that are just as bad.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
leonardo 1/21/2020 10:57:37 PM (No. 294687)
Yahoo "News" is overwhelmingly biased to the left AND they are delusional.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/21/2020 11:06:10 PM (No. 294695)
All Repliers covered it. I can add nothing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 1/21/2020 11:46:12 PM (No. 294717)
With his pocketbook?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
judy 1/21/2020 11:49:02 PM (No. 294721)
Yahoo is more fake than CNN!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 1/22/2020 12:20:08 AM (No. 294730)
I wish my trial lawyer hubby could have stayed up after a long, long day's work to watch more of the goings-on. Then i'd get an honest assessment. I'm just nervous; and sick and tired of the endless harassments of POTUS. It impacts all of us in one way or another. A lesser man would have cracked by now. He just keeps on looking forward, hands to the plow. A lesser man, and BO's "fundamental transformations" would be on track, and we'd be careening down the abyss of socialism/collectivism/totalitarianism.
This is of course why the Left won't stop. We need more warriors on the ramparts.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NYbob 1/22/2020 12:27:41 AM (No. 294733)
Yahoo is the perfect name for a bunch of lying leftist slugs. Take comfort in the fact that they have had a really miserable year after year since the last Presidential election. The only people who believe those nutcases are the usual deranged losers. It's going to be sweet when Yahoo has to start making excuses for high ranking rats lawyering up to avoid prison. Son of communists, schiff will be a prime candidate for fines, censure, prosecution and sentencing, IF there is any justice left in the system and IF there is any offense in the GOP playbook.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mamabear 1/22/2020 12:31:37 AM (No. 294736)
I watched the hearing. Every dem. who spoke basically restated some aspect of their impeachment case, demanded the senate call specific witnesses or subpoena documents and tied that demand to whatever amendment was up for discussion. During his arguments, Schiff accused the presidents' defense team of being dishonest. He made several statements that were patently untrue, even going so far as to animatedly fabricate a phone conversation that was supposedly overheard by one of his witnesses. They did what they could to make their impeachment case to the American people right up front.
On the other hand, it seemed as though the presidents' defense team expected the hearing to be procedural and were only prepared to make procedural statements. They spoke briefly and yielded their time to the House managers rather than to members of their own team. Thus giving Schiff, what I felt was, an extraordinary amount of time to pontificate and rebut their defense. They did not immediately address most of the falsehoods or respond to the accusations. They did not vigorously defend the presidents' actions, call Schiff out for his insinuations, the conspiracy built around his timeline or mis-statements about the call. They could have at least asked why dems. were demanding those specific documents (obviously because they know those documents will help to make their case.) They could have questioned the validity of the documents being demanded. Something..anything to challenge! Instead, little or nothing in the defense of the president.
Perhaps some or all of the above defense will come later. I was disappointed today and hope that is not the best lawyer-ing these folks can do. The "he didn't do anything wrong" defense is not going fly. And, the president deserves better.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 1/22/2020 12:53:00 AM (No. 294748)
I call BS.
Schiff tells nothing but lies.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
PChristopher 1/22/2020 1:44:26 AM (No. 294760)
Mauled by Schiff?! That's fake news right there!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/22/2020 2:07:35 AM (No. 294767)
It was really the other way around. Shiff took a beating and sat there in a daze. He is an arrogant self centered a-whole and Trumps lawyers wipe’s the floor with his face.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
NotaBene 1/22/2020 2:16:52 AM (No. 294770)
This reads like a Babylon Bee parody. 180 degrees from the truth.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
lewka 1/22/2020 2:23:21 AM (No. 294771)
Yahoo is such a dirtbag site. Jon Ward must have Schiff on his brain and dreams of his love.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/22/2020 6:53:15 AM (No. 294810)
From every other report I read, the above is pure fantasy, probably written without ever having watched the proceedings. Schiff was the one mauled, due to his arrogant and past unconstitutional practices and procedures.
And he deserved it!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/22/2020 7:19:42 AM (No. 294833)
These are the stories leftists tell themselves to disprove what their own eyes see.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 1/22/2020 10:33:58 AM (No. 295085)
RE Op:
The hearings are available on YouTube. Look up the responses from Cipollone and Sekulow. They spoke for far more than 2 minutes and a little after midnight, both stuck verbal boots up the backsides of Jerk and the fat man!! Even upChuck got a slap or two last night.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Ebenezer 1/22/2020 12:55:50 PM (No. 295273)
Jon Ward is a typical leftist journalist who writes for Vanity Fair and Politico, and appears on NPR. He obviously has a huge ax to grind. I wouldn't take his column too seriously.
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