Oh shit... Trump's going to his "A-Team" for his possible impeachment defense.... Giuliani......lololol

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Trump considering Giuliani and Dershowitz for impeachment defense team


(CNN)President Donald Trump is considering having Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz defend him if he faces another impeachment trial, two sources familiar with the matter said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday Democrats are prepared to move forward with impeachment next week if Trump doesn't resign, and Trump is beginning to mull who would represent him in a Senate trial.
Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, is expected to represent him, the sources said, and Trump is also considering hiring Dershowitz, a controversial attorney.
Dershowitz declined to comment to CNN, saying, "I don't talk to CNN, I sue them." But he told Politico on Friday that it would be his "honor and privilege" to defend the President.
A Giuliani spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
While the President's impeachment defense team is only just coming into view, it is becoming increasingly clear that the primary members of the team during his first impeachment would be unlikely to join.

Constitutional attorney Jay Sekulow, White House counsel Pat Cipollone and attorney Jane Raskin are not expected to be involved for a second impeachment trial. Cipollone is said to have considered resigning in recent days.
House Democrats plan to introduce their impeachment resolution on Monday, when the House next comes into session. The latest draft of the impeachment resolution, obtained by CNN, includes one article of impeachment for "incitement of insurrection." The House Rules Committee is expected to meet Monday or Tuesday to approve a rule that would govern floor debate for an impeachment resolution and Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin's bill to create a new mechanism to invoke the 25th Amendment.
But in a memo to fellow senators Friday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated that the earliest the Senate could take up any House-passed articles of impeachment would most likely be right after Trump's term ends, saying that the Senate cannot consider the articles while in recess.
A growing number of Republicans want Trump to leave office before January 20, with some top lawmakers telling CNN they are considering supporting his impeachment.
Two Republican members of Congress who are former Trump allies told CNN they would support impeachment against the President over his role in Wednesday's deadly attack on the US Capitol if the articles are reasonable. One member said, "I think you will have GOP members vote for impeachment."
GOP Sen. Pat Toomey -- who is not running for reelection in 2022 -- told Fox News on Saturday he believes Trump did commit "impeachable offenses," but did not say how he would vote if the article of impeachment came to the Senate.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, was the first Senate Republican to call for Trump's resignation on Friday.
"I want him to resign. I want him out. He has caused enough damage," Murkowski said in an interview with the Anchorage Daily News published Friday.
Sen. Ben Sasse, the Nebraska Republican who was an early critic of Trump's election fraud rhetoric, told CBS Morning News he'd consider any articles of impeachment from the House.


Trump considering Giuliani and Dershowitz for impeachment defense team - CNNPolitics

 

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Giuliani must have all kinds of dirt on Cheetolini; he keeps going back to him for a level of legal incompetence that has to make the Bar Association just .

 

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Trump allies await a new impeachment defense strategy

President Trump is once again on the verge of impeachment by the House, this time with no formal legal defense in sight.
Trump has nothing on his public schedule, and the White House has given no details of any defense underway. The House impeachment vote comes a week after an attack on the Capitol by supporters of the president. Impeachment advocates say Trump incited the mob to breach the Capitol while Congress was attempting to certify the 2020 presidential election results.
In his Senate impeachment trial last year, White House counsel Pat Cipollone helped lead the effort. This time, reports claim Cipollone urged White House staff to stay away.

"We better have one," senior adviser Jason Miller said of an impeachment defense strategy.
One former campaign official in regular contact with Trump's aides said she "hasn't heard a thing."
And on Wednesday, legal scholar Alan Dershowitz who aided Trump's impeachment defense last year, told the Washington Examiner that he would not be defending Trump.
Dershowitz last week told Politico that it would be his "honor and privilege" to represent the president, but a former White House aide said he thought the Trump ally had already been through the ringer plenty.
"He's been beaten up enough," said Joe Grogan, former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.
Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, could still step in.
This time, several Republicans have said they will vote to impeach Trump, including Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the GOP conference chairwoman who came out on Tuesday to support the article Democrats introduced.
Trump criticized "the Liz Cheneys of the world" during the rally last week, an event that led to the accusations he incited his supporters' deadly Jan. 6 rampage.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, told reporters Wednesday that he believes up to a dozen Republican lawmakers may vote with Cheney.
California Democratic Party Rep. Eric Swalwell told PBS NewsHour in an interview that this would be a "unity impeachment," with bipartisan support.
In a bid to stem this, Trump's allies say GOP voters are standing with the president.
"The Republican base is squarely with President Trump," Miller said.
A new survey from Trump campaign pollster John McLaughlin is being used to make that case to lawmakers.
With the clock running out on Trump's remaining time in office, the poll finds 60% of voters believe that it's a "waste of time" to impeach him before President-elect Joe Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration.
"Voters strongly prefer that Congress deal with fighting coronavirus and not impeachment," a memo from McLaughlin reads.
Republican Rep. Tom Cole, the ranking member on the House Rules Committee, argued that this is a rushed impeachment that will weaken future efforts to impeach presidents. GOP Rep. Jim Jordan said he thought Democrats' actions amounted to overreach and that the insurrection could not be directly linked to Trump.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.





Trump allies await a new impeachment defense strategy | Washington Examiner | denvergazette.com

 

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Giuliani says he won't represent Trump at president's impeachment trial
The development came a day after Giuliani met with the president.

President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani apparently won't be on Trump's impeachment team.

Giuliani, who has been leading the president's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl late Sunday that will not be part of Trump's legal team for the upcoming Senate impeachment trial due to his involvement in the Jan. 6 Washington, D.C., rally that led to the attack on the U.S. Capitol building.

"Because I gave an earlier speech [at the rally], I am a witness and therefore unable to participate in court or in the Senate chamber," Giuliani said.

Giuliani initially told ABC News he was working on the president's defense, saying Saturday that he was prepared to argue that the president's claims of widespread voter fraud did not constitute incitement to violence because the widely-debunked claims are true.

Giuliani later met with Trump Saturday at the White House.

At the rally, the former New York City mayor urged the crowd to engage in "trial by combat" before rally-goers marched to the Capitol and breached the building as members of Congress were in the process of certifying president-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Five people, including a Capitol Police officer, died in the attack.

The House of Representatives voted last week to impeach Trump for inciting supporters to storm the Capitol.

A representative for Trump subsequently announced that no decision has been made on the president's legal team.

"President Trump has not yet made a determination as to which lawyer or law firm will represent him for the disgraceful attack on our Constitution and democracy, known as the 'impeachment hoax,'" Hogan Gidley tweeted early Sunday.

Giuliani says he won't represent Trump at president's impeachment trial - ABC News (go.com)