.MaddowBlog: Bondi condemns House impeachment ‘trial’ that didn’t exist
Two months ago, Donald Trump’s operation announced that former Rep. Trey Gowdy would leave his post at Fox News and instead help represent the president in the impeachment process. As regular readers know, this didn’t work out well: the New York Times reported that the day after the announcement, “the arrangement fell apart.”
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 12/13/19, 9:38 PM ET Bondi ties make her an awkward pick for Trump impeachment defense Rachel Maddow looks at former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s uncomfortable interaction with Donald Trump’s fraudulent charity, as well as her awkward proximity to elements of the criminal investigation tied to Trump’s impeachment, even as she is share tweet email save Embed Gowdy is now back at Fox News, where his apparent successor on Team Trump, former Florida...
BONDI: So, we weren’t given a fair trial in the House at all. Now it goes to the Senate, and these senators – the president deserves to be heard…. We wouldn’t be doing our job if we weren’t working hand in hand with the Senate to clear the president of this charade, this sham that started with Adam Schiff, your next guest, and we’re not going to let it continue in the U.S. Senate because we will have fair proceedings.
What’s more, note that Bondi argued that the president “deserves to be heard,” which would be a more compelling point if Team Trump hadn’t turned down invitations to be heard during the House’s impeachment proceedings.
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