A few suggestions for the House Managers

Shove the Republican senators' MAGA faces in it

Claire McCaskill said on MSNBC right after the Senate trial that Republican senators were studiously ignoring the speeches by the House Managers and not watching the video that was played.  She said Rand Paul was up in the gallery talking with friends and other Republican senators were chatting with each other on the floor.  Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn was not present to cast her vote the first time her name was called, as was at least one other Republican senator.  It’s obvious that these Trump enablers aren’t paying attention and giving the case against Trump the attention it deserves and their jobs command them to do.

Okay, here’s how the House Managers should handle these fucking Republican kindergarteners. 

1.      Use stop-action when you show the videos.  Stop the film and point out the exact number of MAGA hats in the shots of the rioters attacking the cops.  Count the Trump flags and announce that number.  Single out the shots where they are yelling “Fuck blue!” and “Fuck the cops!”  Pause the shots where they are yelling in the faces of the cops that Trump sent them, that “We are following the President!  We are here for the President!”

2.     Pause the film as the insurgents are looting senators’ desks and point to individual senators and say, “That is your desk they’re looting, Senator Blackburn.  That’s your desk where they are photographing your private documents, Senator Hawley.  That’s your desk they’re looting, Senator McConnell.

3.     Play the scenes of the insurgents breaking through doors and windows in slow motion.  Show every single blow they make in slow motion.  Have one of the Managers announce the location of each door and window.  Someone should get the cost of every bit of damage they’re doing and announce it to the senators, dollar by disgusting dollar.

4.     It’s obvious that Jamie Raskin’s emotional story of his daughter telling him that she never wanted to return to the House of Representatives had no effect on these assholes.  So call some witnesses and put them before the senate.  Get some cops in there to describe the beatings they took and the injuries they suffered.  Put them on as witnesses one after another. Ask the cops if they had ever been in the Capitol and had people yell in their faces the words “traitor” or “fuck the cops.”  As them what they were feeling when the attack was happening.  Ask them if they feared for their lives.  Get it on the record.  Make those Republican senators sit there and listen to their almighty representatives of law enforcement tell them how they were scared to death facing Trump’s mob.

5.     Put some cops on the stand to describe the stomping to death of the female rioter on the steps leading to the door of the Capitol.  Put cops on the stand who can describe the murder of their fellow officer when he was beaten with a fire extinguisher.  Have them go into detail describing the blows the officer suffered.  If need be, put a coroner on the stand to testify as to how those blows caused the officer’s death.

6.     Call a witness who can testify verbally about the organizers of the riot from groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and their relationships to people from Trump’s campaign.  Show examples of the tweets they shared and messages they sent to each other.  Use the witness to establish the connection between the organizers of the “rally” and the organizers of the riot.

7.     Do a freeze frame of Trump behind the protective shield at the Ellipse giving his speech next to an enormous screen showing the words, “Save America March.”  Have a witness make the point that the people on the Ellipse didn’t “march” there from another location. They just showed up.  Show several crowd shots and make the point that they weren’t “marching” while they were standing there listening to Trump.  Then show the enormous crowd “marching” down Pennsylvania Avenue with the Capitol in the background and play Trump’s words in the speech when he said they were going to “march to the Capitol.”  Emphasize that the gathering on the Ellipse was merely a staging area for the real purpose of Trump’s speech, which was to march on the Capitol and stop the certification of the electoral ballots.  Play Trump’s disgusting tweet from early in the morning urging Pence to do exactly that:  stop the certification.  Then play his tweet made during the actual attack when he called Pence a coward for not doing what the mob was at that very moment doing for him:  stopping the legitimate business of the Congress of the United States.

That should give the House Managers a few things to think about between now and when they begin putting on their case against Trump.  By the way, Majority Leader Schumer should check with the Parliamentarian to see if the presiding officer, Senator Leahy, can hit his gavel and order Senators back to their seats and make them sit down and shut up while a trial is taking place.  Judges can do that in their courtrooms.  I don’t see why Leahy can’t do it in the Senate.

Hammer those worthless Republican senators into their seats and make them relive the chaos of January 6.  Get some footage of the senators fleeing the chamber and freeze the screen and have one of the Managers say, “That is Senator Hawley running out the door.  There goes Senator Cruz.  That’s you leaving the floor, isn’t it, Senator Blackburn?”  If possible, demand that they account for themselves while the insurrection was happening. 

Shame the fuckers.  Shame every single one of them for deserting the chamber of the Senate when it was under assault.  Shame them for not doing their jobs, and then demand that they do their jobs now and find Trump guilty.