Day 3: Trump Defense Team Eyes Shortening Senate Presentation To As Little As 3-hour, Source Says
A source close to former President Trump’s legal team says the defense is eyeing shortening their presentation and possibly making it as short as three hours in an effort to make it “short, tight and direct.”
The team plans to include video presentations showing Democratic leaders using similar language to Trump, including one clip of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer outside the US Supreme Court, saying “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,” referring to Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
Although Schumer’s words were not followed with violence against the justices, and his supporters did not storm the Capitol, the legal team plans to argue hypocrisy and say Trump never intended for the protesters at the “Stop the Steal” march to take over the Capitol building.
CNN
