5 Craziest Takeaways from Trump Impeachment Defense Brief
Former President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team filed its final brief before the Senate trial begins on Tuesday. And the full, 78-page Trump legal brief contains a number of bizarre claims and partisan whataboutist attacks on Democrats and is replete with the same pugnacious, rhetoric befitting Trump’s now-departed Twitter feed. Many observers quickly pointed out that, in the footnotes, the brief tries to cite as evidence of its defense of Trump against incitement of insurrection a post from the far right conspiracy blog Gateway Pundit, whose proprietor, Jim Hoft, was just...