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Ari Melber @AriMelber
People can debate if the unusually bipartisan coalition to convict Trump offers some constructive marker for history... and whether it approaches what the Founders had in mind - some higher bar for conviction - while they didn't foresee the lengths of today's partisanship. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
So while most elected Republican officials look extremely partisan in their continued fealty to Trump... .. a minority of Republican senators also just made history today with the most bipartisan coalition to *ever* vote to convict a President. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
Here are votes to convict from members of the President's *own* party, in modern impeachment trials: 0 Democratic votes to convict Clinton in 1999 1 GOP vote to convict Trump in 2020 7 GOP votes to convict Trump in 2021 — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
BREAKING: The Senate votes 57 to 43 on convicting Trump for inciting the insurrection. This is a Constitutional acquittal, short of the required 67 votes to convict. The coalition for conviction is more bipartisan than most presidential impeachment trials. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
The Senate is voting now on whether to convict or acquit Donald Trump for inciting the January 6 insurrection as part of his plot to steal the election. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
RT @AriMelber: Here is what happened: Democrats presented a cogent impeachment case with detailed evidence, won a bipartisan vote to add k… — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
"Nevermind what he said on the 6th." - Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen during closing arguments — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
You can claim a full, fact-finding trial is 'crucial to accountability and protecting the Republic in the future,' or you can act like it's more of an exercise that can be rushed if that's more convenient for your party. Can't honestly be both. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
Here is what happened: Democrats presented a cogent impeachment case with detailed evidence, won a bipartisan vote to add key witnesses, then backed down on witnesses -- ending the trial early and stripping their own case of any eyewitness testimony. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
Imagine a trial including eyewitness testimony, in their own words, from - Capitol police officers - elected officials in both parties targeted by insurrectionists - witnesses to Trump's actions on Jan 6. Democrats won a vote on that approach today, before reversing themselves. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
It's an unforced error to win a vote to add witnesses and then back down It's contradictory, and for trial advocacy, it draws attention to the conflict between arguing this is 'crucial for the Republic,' but also this 'Must be rushed because senators made up their mind anyway.' — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
In two impeachment trials of Donald Trump, Democrats widely insisted witnesses were key to a full and fair trial. At the first trial, Republicans stopped any witnesses. At the second trial, Democrats stopped any witnesses. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
After winning a key vote to call witnesses, Democrats back down and decide to call no witnesses at Trump's impeachment trial. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
RT @AriMelber: Wining a key vote to *call witnesses* -- and then not actually calling any witnesses -- would mark quite the reversal by Hou… — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
RT @TheBeatWithAri: What happens if there's no consequence for January 6? @AriMelber quotes the point that a coup without punishment become… — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissman suggests that prioritizing a written affidavit instead of vivid, watchable testimony is like reliving the mistake of hoping everyone would read the whole Mueller Report. (He said it more diplomatically, but that seemed like the gist.) — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
Wining a key vote to *call witnesses* -- and then not actually calling any witnesses -- would mark quite the reversal by House Managers at the most pivotal point in the trial of Donald Trump. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
RT @TheBeatWithAri: "This could have been even worse": @AriMelber discusses the "damning" evidence that Trump was furious that Mike Pence o… — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
New: The Senate votes to call witnesses, extending Trump’s impeachment trial. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
A coup attempt that goes unpunished “becomes a training exercise.” Quoting writer Doug Porter in our coverage of Trump’s trial. https://t.co/OjfmThjuP6 — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
RT @AriMelber: “If Trump’s coup attempt goes unpunished, it will become a training exercise.” Doug Porter https://t.co/nnu68Aqrna — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
RT @kylegriffin1: Leader Schumer: Office Eugene Goodman is going to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. Goodman is in the chamber. The e… — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
RT @AriMelber: New Jay Z re: Jan 6: "You know they hate/ when you become more than they expect / you let them crackers storm your Capitol… — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
This is one of the better substantive questions asked thus far -- Do Trump's lawyers concede that Trump lied about losing the race, or do they claim otherwise? This lawyer's desire to avoid answering - contradict his client or lie to the Senate in a trial proceeding - is a tell. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
Trump's lawyer now complains he's have a "miserable" time defending Trump & he's personally outraged by what he calls misleading material. From a lawyer who's core argument is that his client can get caught lying & trying to steal an election, but that should not be impeachable. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
RT @Memo2theW0RLD: @AriMelber @TheRealGZA @StaceyPlaskett GZA dedicated that track to his father who is a truck driver. Hence “Breaker, Bre… — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
Experts: Most schools should reopen before vaccine rollout is done. The “risks of being out of school were far greater” than the risks of in-person classes with safety protocols. https://t.co/h3XvpezvpM — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
New Jay Z re: Jan 6: "You know they hate/ when you become more than they expect / you let them crackers storm your Capitol / put they feet up on your desk?/ yet you talking tough to me / I lost all my little respect/ I'm sellin weed in the open/bringing folks home from the feds" — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
At a constitutional level, the Trump lawyers’ argument today shows why the more thorough case for impeachment is not “incitement” alone — but three things: trying to steal the election, and Jan 6, and betraying the oath to protect the US on Jan 6. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari Melber @AriMelber
Trump lawyers are using past House challenges to election results to argue that kind of procedural step — in addition to political rhetoric — does not comprise incitement. — PolitiTweet.org
