President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial seemed to be gearing up to draw to a close this Friday, and Trump again resorted to outlandish personal attacks on those who’ve brought the case against him as opposed to any kind of defense against the actual facts of the argument. Based off one video clip of House Intel Committee Chairman and lead impeachment case manager Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) seeming to try and stop fellow manager Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) before he delivered the final comments of the night, Trump pompously touted a supposed rift among the case managers in a Friday morning Twitter post. There’s no apparent evidence of this claimed disagreement — the president is just desperate.
He posted:
‘Nadler ripped final argument away from Schiff, thinks Shifty did a terrible job. They are fighting big time!’
Nadler ripped final argument away from Schiff, thinks Shifty did a terrible job. They are fighting big time! https://t.co/L2qTV9pWiL
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 31, 2020
In the original clip, the House impeachment case managers are responding to a question from Minnesota’s Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D), who’s also running for president. She asked if there was anything that the managers wanted to add before the Thursday session ended, and as Nadler approached the podium to deliver his remarks, Schiff can be heard repeating his first name as if to get his attention.
When Nadler got to the mic, he began:
‘What we’ve just heard from the president’s counsel is the usual nonsense.’
He also reiterated the Democratic push for the basic fairness of hearing from witnesses at the trial, which Republicans have by and large refused to get on board with thanks to their attempt to rush through an acquittal for the president. Republican Sens. Mitt Romney (Utah) and Susan Collins (Maine) revealed they’d be voting for witness testimony — but key swing vote Lamar Alexander of Tennessee revealed the opposite.
Check out Twitter’s response to Trump’s desperation…
