Adam Schiff mauls Trump lawyer Cipollone on impeachment trial’s first day by jonward11
On the first day of the Senate impeachment trial, President Trump’s lawyers were caught off guard and unprepared.
Early in what ended up being a 50-minute presentation by Schiff, the mood in the Senate chamber was sedate. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., held up his watch in front of his face, winding it to the correct time. “It’s completely backwards. Trial first, then evidence,” Schiff said. Later he referred to this process as “ass-backwards.”
“The president must not be allowed to mislead you,” Schiff told the Senate. “The truth will come out. The question is will it come out now?” As for the actual arguments over impeachment, Sekulow said merely that he and Trump’s legal team would make their case “in the days ahead.” “So what are we doing here?” Cipollone said. He was referring to the trial, but could have just as well been referring to himself and his legal team.To the argument that the House should have gone through the courts to obtain documents and witnesses blocked by the White House, Schiff pointed out that Trump’s lawyers were arguing in a case involving the former White House counsel, Don McGahn, that the House is not entitled to those items through the courts.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., proposed an amendment to the rules to subpoena documents from the White House. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., who was a congressional staffer during the 1974 congressional impeachment proceedings against President Nixon, argued for 40 minutes in favor of the amendment.
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