MSNBC host Rachel Maddow mentioned former President Donald Trump wasn’t receiving a lot assist from his attorneys after they delivered rambling and disconnected opening statements throughout Tuesday’s impeachment trial.
In truth, it was fairly the alternative.
Bruce Castor declared that impeachment was the unsuitable treatment for the ex-president, who’s accused of incitement of rebellion.
“After he’s out of office, you go and arrest him,” Castor urged hypothetically.
Castor was making an attempt to argue {that a} president can’t be impeached after leaving workplace, that the correct authorized treatment was by way of the legal justice system.
“So there is no opportunity where the president of the United States can run rampant in January in the end of his term and just go away scot-free,” Castor mentioned. “The Department of Justice does know what to do with such people.”
Just take a look at the look on Maddow’s face after she performed the clip, which she argued seemed like an invite to arrest Trump:
“Sorry, you’re the president’s defense counsel, did you say?” Maddow mentioned in disbelief, then summed up his argument: “Go arrest him for what he did in January. He could be arrested, maybe he should. Shouldn’t go away scot-free, the Department of Justice knows what to do with such people.”
Maddow additionally famous that studies point out Trump was anxious about precisely what Castor hinted at. CNN reported that he’d even been asking associates about his potential publicity to attainable legal prosecution as soon as the impeachment proceedings had been over.
“How did that land today in Mar-A-Lago, you think?” she questioned aloud.
Reportedly, not nicely: The New York Times acknowledged late Tuesday that Trump was angry, frustrated and irate after watching his attorneys’ efficiency.
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