The Impeachment: Day 6

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🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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It’s January 27, 2020. On the sixth day of the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, the President’s team of lawyers resume their arguments in defense of the President. On Saturday, White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his team began their presentation, spending two hours summarizing their arguments. They continue today, just as press reports indicate that former National Security Adviser John Bolton wrote in his not-yet-published book manuscript that President Trump told Bolton in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats. including the Bidens. This is The Impeachment, Day 6.

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0:00.0	The following is an ad for the Lincoln Project.
0:03.0	The Lincoln Project launched today and formed by several of Trump's fiercest conservative critics.
0:08.0	It has already raised over a million dollars in its pursuit to defeat Donald Trump.
0:12.0	Announce the creation of the Lincoln Project, including George Conway.
0:16.0	Steve Schmidt.
0:17.0	John Weaver.
0:18.0	Mike Madrigue.
0:19.0	Jennifer Horn.
0:20.0	Regalyn Bronsteslow.
0:21.0	Rick Wilson.
0:22.0	The Republican could never shut away from criticizing President Trump, formed a political action committee.
0:26.0	The PAC's mission is to...
0:28.0	We are Republicans and we want Trump to beat it.
0:30.0	Over these next 11 months, our efforts will be dedicated to defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box.
0:36.0	Trump and his enablers have abandoned conservatism in longstanding Republican principles and replaced it with Trumpism empty faith they call it played by a bogus profit.
0:45.0	And to elect those patriots who will hold the line.
0:48.0	We'll call the Lincoln Project, which is really this video.
0:52.0	The Lincoln Project recently launched that ad.
0:54.0	It grew plans to purchase television and digital ads in several cattleground states.
0:59.0	Trumpism requires a total lack of shame to go into the swing states where the race will be decided in 2020.
1:04.0	The Lincoln Project is about defeating Donald Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box.
1:11.0	The Lincoln Project is responsible for the content of this advertising.
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