Trump almost shouted because of his lawyer, Castor

At the conclusion of the first day of the trial of former US President Donald Trump in front of the Senate, Democrats and Republicans agreed, yesterday evening, on one thing, which is that the performance of his lawyer Bruce Castor was inferior and sparked a mixture of anger and ridicule. CNN said, according to two unnamed sources, that Trump himself was on the verge of screaming while listening to the pleadings of his lawyer.

Republican Senator John Cornin told «AFP» that this lawyer «spoke without saying anything», adding: «I heard a lot of lawyers pleading and he was not one of the best».

In turn, the Republican Senator, Lisa Murkowski, expressed her "shock" at the lawyer's performance, and said: "I did not understand where he wanted to go."

Castor, 59, who had long been a Pennsylvania county attorney general, joined the former president's defense team at the last minute, after five lawyers resigned from the job.

On the first day of the trial sessions, Bruce was the first to take the stage from Trump's legal team to defend the former president, but his pleading was full of countless digressions and falsities, as he did not hesitate to describe the senators as "extraordinary people" and as "a subject of pride." To their constituents, he also lavished his listeners with vague metaphors such as "the gates of the dams will open" and "the pendulum of the political clock."

On their way out of the Senate Chamber, the Democrats did not hesitate to mock the attorney’s opening argument.

Senator Richard Blumenthal said: "I will re-read the text to see if I can find one coherent paragraph."

In turn, Representative Adam Schiff said in a tweet on "Twitter", that "the defense arguments were weak and complicated, to say the least."

However, all of these criticisms did not shake Castor's self-confidence, as he told reporters that "today was good" and that "nothing will change" in his style during the coming sessions.

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