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12, 2021 from Slated to the GIST I'm Mike Peskin, a little bit about me. I'm a guy who

delights in mocking, reasonable claims from ridiculous people. I find it enjoyable and I think

it is if I may be so bold, something of a calling. Today was the greatest day of my

life, except if you take into account that the reasonable claims of ridiculous people

in question will almost certainly wind up winning the argument. So that does add a negative

sheen to the proceedings. But Donald Trump's lawyers were so much worse than anyone I've

ever heard argue for anything for longer than 12 minutes. And that's because 12 minutes

is the pretty much longest I've ever heard Jim Jordan speak for. That's the longest

they let a segment run on Hannity. That's about however much of a Charlie Kirk show episode

I can make it through. But Donald Trump's lawyers mostly through repetitive, incessant,

and almost entirely tendentious use of video montage sought to make the point that Democrats

do it to. What's the it? Bad things, all the bad things, they do bad things. And as speakers

of English, they often use the same words or word that Donald Trump once used. That's

right. The same words. I did not realize that. For instance, Trump called rioters special

people. And you know who found the special Olympics, a Kennedy lawyer Michael van der Vien

in his closing arguments sought to indict the motivations of Democrats by playing tape

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