Drew Findling, an attorney representing Donald Trump in the Georgia election probe, donated to the campaign of the district attorney in the case, Fani Willis. | TAG24
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No more than five or six Senate Republicans are expected to vote to convict the former president, who continues to have enormous power over his party. That is far less than the 17 needed to secure a conviction.
Yet many Republican senators over the past few days have complimented the arguments of the prosecutors, and while Democrats are signaling unity on the trial, the GOP has been badly divided. If Democrats do win several Republican votes, it will be the most bipartisan presidential conviction vote in the nation’s history.
The managers, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin
Their strategy included the liberal use of harrowing video footage and victim testimony, and served up the emotional equivalent of a Mike Tyson gut punch, forcing senators to revisit the trauma of the day through never-before-seen security footage.
In addition, Cheney s fellow House GOP member, Matt Gaetz
Kinzinger, LaHood s fellow Illinoian, has acknowledged that his vote may have ended his political career, but has so far stood by his decision, launching a PAC to challenge the GOP’s embrace of “Trumpism.”
When asked if the 10 GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach would still receive funding for their campaigns, LaHood responded, “Absolutely.” If we are going to become the majority party which I think we will you’ve got to accept that we’re a big tent, LaHood said. “I have tried to take that philosophy and that attitude of that’s how we’ll become the majority party.
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However, Van Der Veen argued that there was nothing in the trial record that suggested Trump knew about Pence s whereabouts, and knocked Democrats for the push to quickly impeach Trump. At no point was the president informed that the vice president was in any danger, he said.
Trump s lawyer did not respond to Tuberville s disclosure that he had informed Trump that Pence had been removed from the chamber. He didn’t get a chance to say a whole lot because I said ‘Mr. President, they just took the vice president out, I’ve got to go, Tuberville told reporters this week.