Trump plans to offer Dems a new deal and not declare emergency in Saturday speech: CNN report
President Donald Trump plans to offer Democrats in the House of Representatives a new deal in the shutdown standoff, not declare a national emergency in an effort to build his wall unilaterally, CNN reports.
Trump tweeted to declare that he would make a “big announcement” from the White House on Saturday afternoon at 3 pm, leading many to suspect he’d declare an emergency.
However, according to a senior administration official who spoke to CNN, Trump will make “his third offer to end the shutdown.”
“The official told CNN that Trump’s idea is to put something on the table to get Democrats to engage with negotiations,” the report said. “Trump is not expected to back down from his demand for a border wall, but the plan will seek to entice Democrats by offering other concessions.”
Read the report here.
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So much for ‘originalism’ — Trump’s impeachment defense is a constitutional dumpster fire
In the absence of any exculpatory evidence, Donald Trump's defense against impeachment increasingly relies on arguments that fly directly in the face of the Constitution. Trump himself set the standard last July with his grandiose claim that "Article II says I can do anything I want," which encountered no serious pushback from his fellow Republicans.
This article first appeared in Salon.
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Trump lawyer Purpura busted by MSNBC for lying on the Senate floor during impeachment trial
Moments after the end of the Saturday's Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump concluded, MSNBC host Brian Williams pointed out that one of Donald Trump's attorney's lied on the Senate floor about the president's Ukraine scandal-- and he had a clip handy to prove it.
Sharing footage of attorney Mike Purpura stating the higher-ups in Ukraine were unaware that Donald Trump was withholding aid until after the government helped him by announcing an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, the MSNBC host called the attorney out.
To make his point that Pupura was being untruthful, Williams then showed a clip of Defense Department official Laura Cooper, who testified that Ukrainians were asking about the delay on the day of the Trump phone call that was the starting point of the impeachment trial.
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Any normal president could find some defense attorneys who aren’t clowns and grifters
Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls, unhinged tweet storms and other sundry embarrassments coming out of the current White House.
Donald Trump's penchant for telling reporters about his crimes doesn't leave his legal defense team a lot to work with. In the first week of his Senate trial, they've pounded the desk and rended their garments over how mean their Democrats opponents are toward their client. But the worst is yet to come--WaPo reports that during the next phase of the proceedings, Trump's legal team will offer "a scorched-earth defense of President Trump in the impeachment trial, mounting a politically charged case aimed more at swaying American voters than GOP senators — and damaging Trump’s possible 2020 opponent, Joe Biden."
Kellyanne Conway storms out of briefing room after reporters call on her to answer Jim Acosta’s question
Trump displays ‘serious signs’ of cognitive deterioration as his impeachment trial ramps up
‘Insane’ new Trump recording raises questions about Bill Barr’s role in the Ukraine scandal: columnist
Trump’s circle ‘waking up’ to the fact that impeachment is putting him in danger: report
‘Give me a break’: Internet unleashes on ‘snowflakes’ Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski for complaint about Schiff
So much for ‘originalism’ — Trump’s impeachment defense is a constitutional dumpster fire
Trump lawyer Purpura busted by MSNBC for lying on the Senate floor during impeachment trial
‘That dog doesn’t hunt’: Ex-senator burns down fake GOP outrage over Schiff’s ‘heads on pikes’ comment
Any normal president could find some defense attorneys who aren’t clowns and grifters
White House lawyers’ Trump defense ‘deteriorated’ as they tried to make the case for the president: CNN’s Toobin
Trump lawyer Purpura busted by MSNBC for lying on the Senate floor during impeachment trial
‘That dog doesn’t hunt’: Ex-senator burns down fake GOP outrage over Schiff’s ‘heads on pikes’ comment
White House lawyers’ Trump defense ‘deteriorated’ as they tried to make the case for the president: CNN’s Toobin
GOP lawmaker ridiculed for sniveling about Schiff’s ‘heads on pikes’ comment: ‘You sound so scared’
