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.@AnandWrites joins @mehdirhasan to discuss how Trump-era personalities are trying to paper over their record on Reality TV. Tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and live: youtube.com/JaItgeYoFcg
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WATCH: What insurrection?? Trump lawyer Bruce Castor claimed today that the Capitol insurrection *wasn’t* an insurrection, so you can’t convict his client of inciting an insurrection. @mehdirhasan points out that the dictionary, common sense, and a certain GOP leader disagree:
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What's the GOP's future? "A lot depends on this trial," says historian @HC_Richardson, saying Trump's lawyers doubled down "on the idea that it would be possible to continue to legislate on soundbites...Anybody who takes that direction is essentially giving up on democracy."
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Trump’s defense lawyers tried to draw a ‘whataboutist’ parallel between Trump’s incitement of the Capitol insurrection and Democrats’ defense of arrested BLM demonstrators last summer.
@mehdirhasan: “Astonishing!”
@Dr_CMGreer: “*Is* it, Mehdi?”
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Now that Trump is out of office, @mehdirhasan asks ex-congresswoman and Nixon impeachment veteran Elizabeth Holtzman, isn’t the danger past? “No no no.” Nixon “was thoroughly and utterly disgraced.” A Trump acquittal “doesn't put him in the same position of thorough disgrace.”
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“For [Trump's] lawyer to, in a baldfaced way, lie to the faces of the Senate” that the now-ex-POTUS didn’t know Mike Pence was in danger during the insurrection “shows contempt for the intelligence of the American people,” @BeschlossDC tells @mehdirhasan.
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A GOP senator told Trump that Mike Pence was in danger during the insurrection…just before Trump attacked Pence in a tweet. And still Pence won’t blast Trump? He’s “playing the careful calculus of what does the future hold for him and the Republican Party,” says @OliviaTroye.
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WATCH: What do Johnny Depp and Madonna have to do with the Capitol insurrection? Not much, but that didn’t stop Trump’s defense lawyers from dragging them into his impeachment defense. Let @mehdirhasan break down the “pageant of pure whataboutism and gaslighting”:
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As the Senate wraps up the Question and Answer section of the trial, @CongressmanRaja joins @mehdirhasan to discuss live on @peacockTV and YouTube: youtube.com/pk-rDLl6f_E
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How will Trump’s defense go down in history? @HC_Richardson joins @mehdirhasan to discuss on @peacockTV and live: youtube.com/pk-rDLl6f_E
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After Trump’s legal team wraps up their (brief) defense, @mehdirhasan will unpack what it all means for the rest of the trial. Tune in at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and live: youtube.com/pk-rDLl6f_E
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Ted Cruz says Trump didn’t incite insurrection, he just exercised his free speech. But “there's no question” it’s incitement, top First Amendment scholar @RSmolla tells @mehdirhasan, adding the Supreme Court justice Cruz clerked for, William Rehnquist, “wouldn’t agree with him.”
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We now know Trump knew of danger to Pence, attacking him on Twitter *after* the VP fled the Capitol. @scaramucci isn’t surprised. “He hits you with the bus like he hits everybody with the bus,” he tells @mehdirhasan, adding: “He was railing on his children in front of staff.”
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WATCH: “Whether or not Republican senators vote to convict Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection, this trial in the Senate has been invaluable, in terms of what we have learned. And we have learned a lot.” Let @mehdirhasan run through it all for you, quickly:
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What was Trump thinking, watching his impeachment lawyers beclown themselves earlier this week?
"Man, I'm gonna lose a lot of money," @Scaramucci tells @mehdirhasan. "That's all he's thinking. He's not thinking about anything else."
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Remember back in 2020 when a Southwestern county commissioner said, "The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat," and then-President Donald Trump retweeted him? The impeachment managers remembered:
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Biden said he wants to confront domestic terror. But @ConnerforAR and @JoyceWhiteVance argue in @USATODAY that the admin. needs to build a clear and comprehensive plan. Vance joins @mehdirhasan at 7 p.m. ET to discuss on @peacockTV and YouTube: youtube.com/_D_tHONx4LI
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Tonight, we’re recapping everything you need to know about Trump’s trial before the former president’s legal team mounts its defense tomorrow. @JoyceWhiteVance, @Scaramucci, @bfouhy, and Rod Smolla join @mehdirhasan at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YouTube: youtube.com/_D_tHONx4LI
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Impeachment managers are expected to conclude their arguments tonight. @JoyceWhiteVance will join @mehdirhasan to analyze their case and where that leaves the former president‘s legal team. Tune in at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and live: youtube.com/_D_tHONx4LI
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