Team Trump dissolves into total chaos heading into impeachment trial

| 9:30 pm EST January 20, 2020
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Earlier today, Palmer Report explained why Mitch McConnell keeps contradicting himself when it comes to how he’s going to run the Senate impeachment trial: he’s not going to run it, because he’s not in charge. A handful of GOP Senators, who are nervous about a sham trial blowing back on their own personal odds of reelection, are in control of the trial. That means Trump is very much not in charge of the trial either.

McConnell and Trump are each resorting to throwing things at the wall in the hope of taking control of the narrative about the trial, since they have no hope of controlling the actual trial. McConnell is now on his eighth or ninth publicly stated iteration of how he’d like the trial to go (we’ve lost count). Trump, for his part, is also now rapidly contradicting his own supposed gameplan.

For instance, last week the Trump regime let it be known to the media that it wouldn’t use any House Republicans in the Senate impeachment trial. That wasn’t a surprise, considering how inept the House Republicans were during the House impeachment hearings, and how little they were able to do to try to help Trump in the court of public opinion. But now Fox News just reported tonight that “Congressional Members of Pres
@realDonaldTrump’s impeachment team are Reps Doug Collins, Mike Johnson, Jim Jordan, Debbie Lesko, Mark Meadows, John Ratcliffe, Elise Stefanik, and Lee Zeldin.” Wait, what?

So Trump is having House Republicans participate in his Senate impeachment trial, after having recently said he wouldn’t have them? Or he’s naming them, but he’s not going to let them participate? Team Trump is leaking this to its pals at Fox News, who are going to report it verbatim, and yet Team Trump still can’t figure out how to coherently put its propaganda together. Trump and his people are in total chaos heading into this trial.