
I sat down on the couch on Monday all set to watch the blistering defense of the president by his impeachment trial defense team.
Jay Sekulow began it and slammed the House impeachment articles with one of the most severe attacks I have ever witnessed being delivered on the senate floor.
It was withering.
Illustrating his statement with a video of the moment it happened, Jay Sekulow informed the American people that Nancy Pelosi, after signing the actual Articles of Impeachment, handed the pens with which she had signed it to the seven impeachment managers who had stood behind her for the signing.
Such giving of pens is a common practice.
I have a pen used by the then governor of Oklahoma, Frank Keating, when he signed the $3,000 teacher pay raise on February 16, 2000.
And in March 2017, Trump had handed out pens in the Oval Office after signing the NASA transition authorization act that boosted the space agency’s budget to $19.5 billion. He does this often when he signs papers with pens instead of Sharpies.
But now this act has become a sinister one, and one that negates the articles of impeachment.
Sadly, that was the most cogent presentation from the defense team all day.