Al Gives His Closing Argument for the Impeachment Trial

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🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Any intellectually honest Republican Senator would vote to convict after hearing this. Unfortunately, that’s not near enough.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to the Al Franken podcast.
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0:08.5	Hey, everybody.
0:12.8	Depending when you listen to this, the impeachment trial of Donald Trump is either about the
0:17.9	start or is underway or finished years ago.
0:21.8	He has lasted a long time.
0:24.4	But Jamie Raskin, of course, is the lead manager of the House team of the prosecution.
0:31.0	And I know he's going to do a great job.
0:32.8	But I just wanted to do, you know, my final argument, the one I would do at the end of
0:39.6	the trial before it goes to the members of the Senate, many of whom are my former colleagues.
0:46.7	And I know a number of the Republicans, and I think this would be extremely persuasive
0:52.0	to them.
0:53.0	I'm not quite sure.
0:54.8	But so I hope you listen and get something out of it and maybe even, I don't know, enjoy
1:01.8	it.
1:06.3	Distinguished members of the Senate and the rest of you.
1:11.9	Adam Schiff was right where I'm standing just over a year ago, making his closing argument
1:17.5	in Donald Trump's first impeachment trial.
1:20.9	And in that impeachment trial, manager Schiff said basically, everyone in this room knows
1:27.3	who Donald Trump is and that if you don't convict, he will do this again.
1:33.3	You know Donald Trump will do this again.
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