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Multiple sources, including top GOP Senators, spokesperson for Sen. Lindsey Graham confirm the addition
Jan 22, 2021 12:26 AM EST
A top Trump adviser tweeted that South Carolina native Butch Bowers has joined the Trump defense team.
Bowers is well known in the Palmetto State political circles for defending politicians.
Among those, the last three South Carolina Governors. A then Lieutenant Governor Henry McMaster in 2015, Former South Carolina Governor and former United States Ambassador for the United Nations Nikki Haley in 2016, and former Governor Mark Sandford who Bowers saved from being removed from office in 2009.
Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wants the impeachment trial delayed. He’s proposing the Senate give Trump’s legal team two weeks to prepare for the trial and delay its start until February.
McConnell told his fellow GOP senators on a call Thursday that a short delay would give Trump time to prepare and stand up his legal team, ensuring due process.
Efforts are underway to chloroform the public about the realities of the procapitalist, imperialist politics of the Biden administration and the catastrophic economic and social conditions under which it begins.