04 February 2021
Trump’s Defense Strategy
Former President Trump plans to use his defense at his impeachment trial as a vehicle for promoting his claim of a fraudulent election result. He has apparently found lawyers who will use their legal skills to achieve this distortion.
As a constitutional trial court, the Senate should not allow itself to be abused this way. It should be able to reject the Trump defense if it does not make a presentation of documented facts. Otherwise it will again fall into a trap laid by the impeached president.Throughout his incumbency, Mr. Trump has played the media in a game whose objective has been to keep his persona in the news. For Trump there is no such thing as BAD press All coverage of him in the news, good or bad, satisfies his craving for attention. He doesn't care what people think of him as long as they can't escape thinking of him. Although most of those people eventually think poorly of him, many will admire him. Sometimes, when those who don't like him are distracted, Trump will emerge the winner, like in the 2016 Presidential election.
Thus opponents of Donald Trump are caught in a dilemma. If they try to deprive him of the attention he craves, for example by dropping the charges in the Senate, they risk weakening the determination that is needed among advocates of democracy for excising autocracy from our government. It will take a lot of vigilance to prevent Trump's impeachment trial from stoking increased fervor among his supporters who are disaffected with their place in society, and a lot of courage to run the risk of failure,
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