The following recording may contain explicit language.

I can't get more explicit than may.

Let's just say it may.

Bum!

It's Monday, January 27, 2020 from Slate It's the Gisdy Mic Pesca,

the defense of Donald Trump began today in earnest.

Although since earnest means a sincere and intense conviction,

and since Donald Trump's lawyers are largely insincere

in their assertions to avoid conviction,

I use the term advisedly.

The Trump defense team is made up of something old,

something new, a few things borrowed

from the Epstein defense team,

and in Ken Star, a nose that's blue.

You know, blue nose, old expression, kind of a prude.

Here is the former president of Baylor,

a Baptist school that didn't allow dancing until 1996,

but turned a blind eye towards raping.

Here's him making a case that we have just

got a little too far on this whole impeachment thing.

Instead of a once-and-a-century phenomenon,

which it had been, presidential impeachment,

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