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February 3, 2021, 11:22 am
Donald Trump’s new team of lawyers for his impeachment defense, after his original team all up and quit, is not getting off to a good start with their defense filing that misspells “United States” in the greeting. After the filing’s title, it addresses the recipients as “The Honorable, the Members of the Unites (sic) States Senate.”
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And it’s not the only time that this pretty important phrase is misspelled.
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Attorneys David Schoen and Bruce Castor submitted this filing on Tuesday as they prepare for the beginning of Trump’s second impeachment trial next week. They have opted for primarily arguing that the Florida resident should not be convicted of the impeachment charges because he’s already out of office.
This comes after Trump’s original legal team for the case simultaneously resigned because he kept pushing them to instead argue that he won the 2020 election. They, too, wanted to argue that you can’t convict someone who is no longer president in an impeachment trial. The new team, however, does touch on the election fraud conspiracy theory, arguing that freedom of speech gave Trump the right to say whatever he wanted and that Trump still doesn’t feel that he was wrong.
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“Insufficient evidence exists upon which a reasonable jurist could conclude that the 45th President’s statements were accurate or not, and he therefore denies they were false,” the filing reads.
Schoen and Castor may not have been the best choices, or at least need to hire a proofreader. Farther down the filing, they again misspell “United States” in the same manner under the “Legal Defenses” section as though they just copied and pasted the original greeting.
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Writer Judd Legum also spotted another typo in a quote from the U.S. Constitution, leaving the letter Y off of what should have read “any office of honor.”
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It’s not a good look to have so many typos in any legal document, but this is kind of an important case, you guys.
Trump’s second impeachment trial in the Senate will begin on February 9. A supermajority will be required to convict, meaning 17 Republicans would have to join all 50 Democratic senators in order to make that happen. This is considered highly unlikely after only five Republican senators voted against declaring an impeachment trial against an already-former president unconstitutional.
*First Published: February 3, 2021, 11:22 am
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