Republican strategist Karl Rove
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Rove said during a Fox News Sunday presentation that the Senate is the majority leader Mitch McConnell
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“I think it’s going to all come down to what the president’s defense is,” Rove added.
“Rudy Giuliani has shown a very bad rate in the morning papers,” Rove said, referring to comments from the lawyer that the president could not have incited the deadly riots at the Capitol earlier this month because of his unproven claims of election theft was true. The House charged Trump last week with his role in the riots, making him the only president charged twice.
The election fraud argument, Rove noted Sunday, “has been rejected by more than 50 courts,” including Trump appointees.
A defense of Giuliani, he added, “increases the likelihood that more than 17 Republicans will vote for conviction.”
Giuliani also told ABC News that he was working on Trump’s indictment and that the president could not incite the crowd because they did not act immediately after the Capitol after his speech during a rally.
“You have to make people run out. “You have to get people from the frozen speech to the Capitol, and that’s basically incitement, ‘he said.
The former mayor of New York spoke at the same meeting and called for “trial by battle”.
“I am ready to win my reputation, and the president is ready to split his reputation because we are going to find crime. [in the election], ‘he said at the time.
When Giuliani spoke to Brett Samuels of The Hill last week, he maintains that the term is a reference to the HBO series ‘Game of Thrones’ and not a literal appeal to violence.