Trump Defense Lawyer Baffles Viewers With Confounding, Meandering Opening Argument: ‘Just… Ad-Libbing?’ Mediaite 2/9/2021
Bruce Castor, one of the lawyers representing former President
Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, gave an opening statement Tuesday that baffled a great deal of political observers.
Castor spent a lot of time talking at remarkable length about history and talking up the Senate and saying that senators are patriots (as you can see in the MSNBC video above) and Athens and Nebraska and the British system and a lot more.
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Steven Washington, 9, dives faces first into a fresh pile of snow, taking a break from shoveling his grandmother s driveway after school was called off for a snow day Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, on Flint, Mich. s north side. I like to see when the snow falls, he said. I love to play in it and make snow angels. It was so cool to get out of school today so I could just be outside around so much snow. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
You silly person, you thought that since the kids were sitting at home, glued to their COVID Chromebooks for something like three hours a day that snow days would be a thing of the past.
Amanda Gorman.
The 22-year-old became the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration, and judging by social media reaction, she absolutely stole the show.
“We close the divide because we know to put our future first we must first put our differences aside,” Gorman said, in her poem. “We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another.”
Gorman also took a thinly veiled shot at President
Donald Trump, while ultimately sounding a note of hope.
Being American is more than a pride we inherit.
It’s the past we step into, and how we repair it.