Trump is Toast!

Dear Friends:

They’ve been accused of orchestrating a criminal conspiracy. They’ve been dubbed ethically compromised. They’ve been labeled liars. They could even be called to testify in the impeachment case they were hired to combat. In the opening days of Donald Trump’s Senate trial, it has at times felt like the president’s lawyers are his co-defendants. (And that includes Bill Barr.)

“Nonsense,” said Jay Sekulow, the longest-serving personal attorney to Trump, when asked about the litany of allegations flying around Capitol Hill.

Welcome to impeachment in the Trump era, where the president cheers on his attorneys as they blow right past any suggestion that they themselves were direct witnesses — if not culpable — in a scheme that helped make their client America’s third chief executive to be impeached.

It’s a theme that has been replayed throughout Trump’s life: The lawyers he brings in to authorize and defend his behavior end up in their own legal morass. Trump’s longtime legal fixer, Michael Cohen, is doing three years in federal prison for his election-season role in paying off women who alleged affairs with Trump. Former White House counsel Don McGahn ended up as a star witness for special counsel Robert Mueller after he had a front-row seat to Trump’s potential obstruction of justice. Rudy Giuliani has hired a team of criminal defense attorneys as the Justice Department investigates his recent behavior while serving as personal counsel to the president.

For now, Trump’s current attorneys appear to be embracing their role as supporting actors in a drama that will play out on the Senate floor for another week if not longer, sparring frequently with their Democratic investigators and leaving Chief Justice John Roberts to decide just how many more times he’ll need to serve as the chief of the Senate’s decorum police.

The complaints have dominated the early days of the trial. Even before opening arguments, House Democrats warned White House counsel Pat Cipollone that they have evidence showing he’s a material witness in their impeachment case and that he should consider removing himself from the president’s defense team for ethical reasons or risk “seriously damaging the fairness of the trial.”

Cipollone made no such move. And by the end of the trial’s first day, a marathon debate that stretched into early Wednesday morning, the House Democrats prosecuting Trump had accused Cipollone and Sekulow of fudging facts to present a more sympathetic version of the Ukraine scandal that threatens to upend Trump’s presidency and his political future.

“The president’s counsel has no standing to talk about lying,” complained Rep. Jerry Nadler, the Judiciary Committee chairman whose exchange with the two Trump lawyers quickly spiraled downward and prompted Roberts to admonish all sides “in equal terms to remember they are addressing the world’s greatest deliberative body.”

Democrats also haven’t spared Giuliani, the former New York mayor who has been sidelined from formally participating in the Senate proceedings but remains a vocal member of the president’s defense team.

On Wednesday, House impeachment prosecutors name-dropped Giuliani more than 200 times during their opening presentations on the Senate floor. That was on top of nearly 60 mentions Tuesday as the Democratic lawmakers discussed the president’s efforts to get Ukraine to launch investigations into Trump’s political opponent, Joe Biden. And that’s in addition to 91 Giuliani references in the opening brief that the House filed last weekend.

Trump is facing allegations that he withheld foreign aid to Ukraine and an official White House visit for the country’s president as leverage in a Giuliani-fueled attempt to get Ukraine to announce investigations into Biden and his son Hunter. Democrats also impeached Trump over his refusal to cooperate with their Ukraine investigation.

As usual, Trump doesn’t appear fazed by the mounting criticism of his lawyers. He called Cipollone “a high-quality human being” during a news conference Wednesday at the conclusion of an international economic summit in Davos, Switzerland.

Well: Now that the actual impeachment trial of Donald Drumpf has started I can see the stalling tactics of the Republicans weakening ....... and the momentum of the Democrats picking up!

Folks I fully expect to see the Republicans crumble in the next little while because of the sheer amount of evidence against him.... and Don the Con kicked out of office............ BUT............ even if this doesn't happen the 'Orange One" will be trounced in the November election.... and then the only thing left to do is put Drumpf in jail.

Then he'll not only be 'Toast' kids, but he will be 'Burnt Toast!'

The way I see it anyway!