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Former President Donald Trump’s new impeachment lawyers are no strangers to seeing their names in headlines: David Schoen represented self-proclaimed dirty trickster Roger Stone (before Trump commuted his sentence) and met with infamous convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a few days before he committed suicide (but he says Epstein was murdered), and Bruce Castor, Jr. was the district attorney who declined to prosecute Bill Cosby in 2004.

News broke on Saturday that the original five attorneys on Trump’s legal team for his second impeachment trial had parted ways with the former president, and Trump had brought on Schoen and Castor to replace them.

Stone, a former Trump adviser, was convicted of seven counts of lying to Congress and the FBI and witness tampering, and sentenced to forty months in prison. Stone was due to report to prison last July, but Trump commuted his sentence.

Trump’s decision to protect his longtime friend from prison was met with loud criticism, including from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who penned an op-ed for the Washington Post to defend the work of his office as proper and in compliance with the law, and point out that Stone “remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.”

Of course, Stone was not without his defenders, and some of the most fervent were on Fox News, including host Sean Hannity, who scored the first interview with Stone after the news broke of his commutation, along with his attorney, Schoen.

“This commutation is a great tribute to President Trump,” said Schoen during that July 2020 Hannity appearance, launching into a screed attacking Mueller and the other investigators involved in the case as “rotten to the core” and “ethically bankrupt” and profusely thanking Trump for recognizing that Stone’s trial was “unfair” and saving his client from prison.

This would be far from the first time that a flattering Fox News appearance preceded being hired by Trump: both his coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas and attorney Jenna Ellis reportedly caught his eye after signing his praises on the Murdoch-owned network.

Unsurprisingly, Stone has continued to staunchly defend Trump in public, including backing his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen and speaking at pro-Trump rallies, such as the January 5 one in Washington, D.C. pictured at the beginning of this article, one day before the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

In a September 2020 interview with the Atlanta Jewish Times, Schoen lauded Stone as “very bright, full of personality and flair,” and described the case against him as “very unfair and politicized.”

“I represented all sorts of reputed mobster figures: alleged head of Russian mafia in this country, Israeli mafia and two Italian bosses, as well a guy the government claimed was the biggest mafioso in the world,” Schoen bragged in the interview. The reporter noted that Schoen had also “worked with accused rapists, capital murderers and international narcotics dealers.”

Schoen met with Epstein on August 1, 2019, just days before he was found unresponsive in his cell on August 10. Schoen has spoken with multiple media outlets about that meeting, adamantly stating that he believed the accused sex trafficker was murdered.

“I saw him a few days earlier,” Schoen told Fox Nation. “The reason I say I don’t believe it was suicide is for my interaction with him that day. The purpose of asking me to come there that day and over the past previous couple of weeks was to ask me to take over his defense.”

“I still think he was murdered,” he told the Atlanta Jewish Times last September.

Castor was the district attorney for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania who declined to prosecute Cosby for an alleged 2004 sexual assault. In a press release, Castor wrote that he had “conclude[d] that a conviction under the circumstances of this case would be unattainable,” and therefore “decline[d] to authorize the filing of criminal charges in connection with this matter.”

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Fox News host Mark Levin shared at the beginning of his segment with Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Sunday evening that he’s a fan of Hawley’s because they both have the same haters.

“I have never met Senator Josh Hawley, but I’m a big fan of the senator because the people who attack him tend to attack me too, so it’s good to know who they are,” Levin stated.

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Fox News host Mark Levin compared the idea of Congress possibly censuring President Donald Trump to calling him a “kumquat” on his Sunday evening program while speaking with former Trump impeachment lawyer Ken Starr.

Citing a letter in which President Andrew Jackson wrote after being censured, Starr explained that Jackson “wrote a very impressive letter,” arguing that at the time, Congress didn’t have the constitutional authority to censure him.

Levin then compared the measure of censuring Trump to that of calling him a “kumquat.” (For those unfamiliar, a kumquat is an “edible, orange-like fruit that is native to Southeast Asia.”)

“Ya, but that’s like passing a resolution calling a president a kumquat; I mean, what does that mean, I mean particularly a private citizen, they have already left,” Levin stated.

“What is troubling to me here is the lack of respect for the Constitution. And they are so busy trying to chase down Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago,” he added.

Watch above, via Fox News.

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An editor for the conservative website Quillette, Jonathan Kay, revealed on Twitter Sunday that he has been using dog shampoo unknowingly over the last few months.

“So it turns out I’ve been using dog shampoo on my hair for the last few months. (I only discovered it when I ran out and needed to get more.) this is partly my own fault, but it doesn’t help that Arm and Hammer has the word ‘pets’ in like 4-pt typeface. I’m guessing this is common,” Kay tweeted. 

Kay claims to have missed the word “pets” on the bottle, but the word and image of a dog are not subtle:

“but Jon, is has a pic of a dog!”
doesn’t mean anything. Lots of shampoos i used in the past have pictures of waterfalls, or people cleaning dishes, or gauzily drawn women frolicking in pastures, or dudes under waterfalls with chests provocatively projected outwards, or whatever

— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) January 31, 2021

Notably, Kay attempted to blame the shampoo’s manufacture for small lettering, but Twitter didn’t buy his argument.

the minds at Quilette once again exploring dangerous ideas, like why there’s a picture of a dog on this shampoo that’s clearly for humans pic.twitter.com/NHawSh6xxW

— ska scholar (@CTWritePretty) January 31, 2021

Can’t stress enough how important it is that you open this photo for a surprise https://t.co/3Pcb6DrMI5

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) January 31, 2021

It literally has a picture of a dog https://t.co/apk1VLoUed

— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) January 31, 2021

It has a picture of a *dog* on it but this guy is also with Quillette so https://t.co/HnnghiA0Ui

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 31, 2021

there’s a dog on it tho https://t.co/6X65vL5Kkw

— Natalie Shure (@nataliesurely) January 31, 2021

there’s a huge picture of a dog on the bottle https://t.co/waUoIk1M9j

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 31, 2021

this is your brain on Quillette https://t.co/qnaKvfXP0w

— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) January 31, 2021

Narrator: “It was not, in fact, common” https://t.co/Tqdcubdxin

— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) January 31, 2021

Others on Twitter thought the post might just be a trolling attempt from Kay.

this has got to be a troll

— manny (@mannyfidel) January 31, 2021

sorry to inform you all this post is definitely a troll. in the follow up tweet he says he used shampoo with “pictures of people cleaning dishes.” cmon! just here to ruin your fun day online, ol libby downer https://t.co/jcUwV7E7TJ

— libby watson (@libbycwatson) January 31, 2021

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A day after former President Donald Trump parted ways with the entire legal team for his second impeachment trial, he announced two new lawyers, David Schoen and Bruce Castor, Jr., would now be representing him.

News broke Saturday that all five lawyers on Trump’s legal team were leaving, in what was described as a “mutual decision,” but sources also said that Trump had wanted his lawyers to base his defense on his baseless claims that the election was stolen from him.

“The big question for me is are these new attorneys going to go along with that big lie defense, that rigged election defense?” CNN legal analyst Elie Honig told CNN Newsroom anchor Pamela Brown. “If you are a lawyer in this situation, look, you have a right and a duty to represent your client zealously and aggressively, but there is a line, and the line you cannot cross is you cannot make a defense that you know is a lie, and cannot make a defense that could be dangerous to the public, and I think the rigged election defense is both of those things.”

“So my question is, are these lawyers going to go along with that?” continued Honig. “If they do Pam, they do that at their own reputational peril. If they promote conspiracy theories, they will live with that personally and professionally.”

Trump announced the new attorneys in a press release sent to reporters, including the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman.

Trump announces two impeachment lawyers, via press release pic.twitter.com/YvVRhygdqo

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 31, 2021

CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins reported that the previous legal team had not been paid any advance fees or signed contracts with the former president.

After 5 members of his impeachment team abruptly left days before legal briefs are due, former President Trump announces his new attorneys are David Schoen and Bruce Castor, Jr. I was told last attorneys had not been paid advance fees and a letter of intent was never signed.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 31, 2021

Schoen is a trial attorney and former law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law. Castor is the former district attorney for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania from 2000 to 2008 and also served as the state’s Solicitor General and then Acting Attorney General in 2016. They will not have much time to prepare their case; the trial is scheduled to start February 9.

Watch the video above, via CNN.

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The Lincoln Project’s legal counsel sent a scorching letter to Rudy Giuliani after he falsely accused the group of helping plan the January 6th Capitol riot, demanding that Giuliani retract his statement and publicly apologize by February 3.

Giuliani made the comments in an appearance on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, accusing “antifa” and “some right-wing groups that operate for the Lincoln Project or have been working with the Lincoln Project at various times” of being responsible for instigating the riot.

The letter, which is embedded at the end of this article, was sent from Matthew Sanderson, a partner with the D.C. law firm Caplin and Drysdale and the same attorney who penned a previous viciously-worded reply to counsel for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner regarding billboards the anti-Trump PAC had sponsored in Times Square.

The Lincoln Project’s legal response to the false and defamatory statements made by Rudy Giuliani. pic.twitter.com/MshgYIMC69

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 30, 2021

The heavily-footnoted letter began with a backhanded compliment — “You were once a respected and respectable figure” — and takes several paragraphs to lay out the “public spectacle” of Giuliani’s “unfortunate, self-inflicted decline,” culminating in his speech at the January 6th rally, where Giuliani promoted President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the election had been stolen, directed the attendees to “fight to the very end,” and even even shouted his support for “trial by combat.”

Rather than apologizing for your actions, you have spent the ensuing weeks deflecting blame and grasping for some way to explain your misconduct. You shamelessly muttered, for example, that your demand for “trial by combat” before an angry mob on January 6th was merely a benign reference to a 2014 episode of, as you put it, “that very famous documentary” Game of Thrones. You will say anything to anyone who will listen, but even Fox News is reportedly unwilling to listen to you anymore. I can only assume that is why you recently found yourself appearing on Steve Bannon’s online “War Room: Pandemic” program, of all places, to make a grievous error that you will come to regret.

Sanderson stated explicitly several times that Giuliani is “responsible” for the violent insurrection that happened after his speech, including the vandalism, injuries, and deaths that occurred. And, instead of apologizing, the letter pointed out, “you held tight to your fantastical claim” that the Lincoln Project incited the riot — even when Bannon repeatedly attempted to get him to back down.

“You committed a textbook act of defamation,” wrote Sanderson. “You publicly accused The Lincoln Project of an infamous and criminal act that it had nothing to do with, as you very well know. You lied.”

The letter concluded with a demand that Giuliani “retract your statement fully and to apologize publicly to The Lincoln Project,” with a deadline of this Wednesday, February 3.

“Refuse at your peril,” the letter ended, with the standard language directing someone who may be subject to litigation to preserve evidence, and then one final slam, referring to Dominion Voting Systems’ $1 billion lawsuit against Giuliani: “You will never again be America’s Mayor, but there may still be time to save some of the cash that you pawned your credibility for, should Dominion Voting Systems ultimately leave you with any.”

Lincoln Project founder Steve Schmidt spoke with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Saturday morning, saying he was “thrilled” at the chance to sue Giuliani into the Stone Age. (The video clip also includes part of Giuliani’s comments on Bannon’s podcast.)

“Well, what’s amazing about it, Ali is that at the end of it when you cut it off when Bannon goes to, ‘you’re killing me, you’re killing me,’ because Steve Bannon knows he’s going to get sued by us also, and he is, and so is Donald Trump who is Rudy Giuliani’s client, and Rudy Giuliani is acting on his behest,” Schmidt stated.

“It is very difficult to sue somebody for defamation or libel in the United States,” Schmidt acknowledged, “but our lawyers are telling us that Rudy is well across the line so we’re thrilled about this. It wouldn’t be a frivolous lawsuit.”

Schmidt added Giuliani’s claims against the Lincoln Project were “ludicrous,” “untrue,” and “defamatory.”

Read the full letter from the Lincoln Project’s attorney below:

The Lincoln Project Letter to Rudy Giuliani (Final 1.30.2021) by Sarah Rumpf on Scribd

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Approximately fifty right-wing and anti-vaccine protesters gathered outside of the entrance to Dodgers Stadium on Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, California, blocking people in cars from receiving their shots, which resulted in the vaccination site having to be temporarily shut down by the Los Angeles Fire Department.

“Dodger Stadium’s mass COVID-19 vaccination site was shut down Saturday afternoon as about 50 protesters gathered at the entrance, stalling hundreds of motorists who had been waiting in line for hours,” The Los Angles Times reported.

At Dodger’s Stadium this afternoon, police temporarily stopped vaccinations in response to around 40 anti-vaccine protesters at the entrance. pic.twitter.com/gyt0jut3ys

— Samuel Braslow (@SamBraslow) January 30, 2021

Today, anti-vaccination protesters marched to Dodger Stadium, which is currently serving as one of the largest vaccination sites in the nation. LAFD and CORE temporarily closed the gates & paused vaccinations. A long line of cars built up. pic.twitter.com/pwGE1yUcuW

— Emily Holshouser (@emilyytayylor) January 30, 2021

Around 2 p.m., the site was closed down due to the demonstrators’ actions. However, the closure didn’t last long; at 3 p.m., according to The Times, the vaccination site re-opened.

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Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took some potshots at each other on Twitter Saturday.

The mini-feud commenced with Romney on Saturday morning tweeting that the QAnon believing member of Congress was pushing “nonsense,” likening it to the “big lie” that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulently stolen from former President Donald Trump.

“Lies of a feather flock together: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s nonsense and the ‘big lie’ of a stolen election,” Romney tweeted Saturday morning.

Lies of a feather flock together: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s nonsense and the “big lie” of a stolen election. https://t.co/ID4QL2ZPEV

— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) January 30, 2021

Greene replied to the senator on Saturday afternoon, telling him to grow “a pair or a spine,” and putting “Republican” in sarcastic quotes.

“‘Republican’ Senator Mitt Romney obviously cares nothing about the people’s number one concern,” she fired back at Romney. “Please grow a pair or a spine.”

“Republican” Senator Mitt Romney obviously cares nothing about the people’s number one concern.

Please grow a pair or a spine. https://t.co/4XR54MDyqI

— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) January 30, 2021

The Twitter battle comes while Greene is facing increased pressure to resign in light of “a growing library of past racist, violent, and seditious views.”

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Conservative pundit and American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp demanded an apology from one of his neighbors on Saturday night via Twitter after he said his family was “accosted” by the neighbor.

“My wonderful wife and my two youngest girls, 9 and 10, were accosted by one of our neighbors, a few doors away. When either side turns their politics into intimidation, it is wrong. In this case, it may well be a crime. Disagree w me all you want but leave my girls alone. I mean it,” Schlapp tweeted on Saturday night.

If this “neighbor” apologizes in person to my wife and two young girls it would be accepted. No one should tell a 9 year old to f&@# off. No one. Especially over politics. If Democrats of stature act like this I really don’t want to hear about unity not one second more. https://t.co/WVGwWhECBm

— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) January 30, 2021

Schlapp then followed up his initial tweet by seeking an apology from the neighbor on Twitter.

“If this ‘neighbor’ apologizes in person to my wife and two young girls it would be accepted,” he stated. “No one should tell a 9-year-old to f&@# off. No one. Especially over politics. If Democrats of stature act like this, I really don’t want to hear about unity, not one second more.”

Schlapp didn’t immediately return a Mediaite request for comment regarding the incident. It remains unclear if Schlapp reported the Saturday night incident to law enforcement.

This isn’t the first time Schlapp has logged onto Twitter to share encounters with political opponents. Back in 2018, he claimed to have been “accosted” by a “deranged lefty who came out of his car spewing pure gross hate and profanity.”

Schlapp shared another neighborhood conflict back in October 2020 when a neighbor allegedly called the police on him for hanging a Donald Trump flag ahead of a presidential debate.

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There’s a growing outcry over freshman Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene following recent reporting about a number of insane, conspiratorial comments she’s made in the past few years.

Some Democrats have been calling for her to be seriously reprimanded, if not outright expelled, and even some Republicans have spoken out against her.

On CNN Friday, Congressman Ro Khanna (D- CA) said Congress should hold hearings to consider expelling her.

Wolf Blitzer asked Khanna about colleague Cori Bush moving her office away from Greene’s after what she described as Greene and staffers berating her.

“It’s sad and that conduct would not be acceptable in any workplace,” Khanna said, “Who accepts a colleague coming and accosting you, yelling at you, without a mask? There should be rules against that. And what the sad thing is: most Republicans that I interact with are not like that. I have lunch with them, coffee with them. We work together. There are a few of these people who have taken to social media, made threats, and we should have zero tolerance.”

He said he doesn’t feel concerned about his own safety, while adding, “There are members I know who have felt threatened, some of the women of color in particular have felt vulnerable and death threats, and I think this is coming from a handful of members.”

With respect to Greene in particular, Khanna said, “They should hold hearings to expel her. Let’s look at what she has done. She has tweeted out about assassinating leaders, threats against President Obama and Hillary Clinton.”

“In what environment can you put that stuff out on social media and still have a job? She has really crossed the line. I do not take it lightly to be calling for something like that, but she has crossed the line in a way that is very disturbing,” Khanna added.

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy is apparently going to be talking to Greene next week.

You can watch above, via CNN.

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