Hollywood celebrities were glued to their TVs as the Senate kicked off its impeachment tribulation of Donald Trump on Tuesday. The stars took to convivial media to live tweet their feelings, which included contempt for Trump’s bulwark team and a desire to visually perceive the former president convicted as early as possible.
Celebrities including anti-Trump stalwarts Rob Reiner, Alyssa Milano, Bette Midler, Debra Messing, George Takei, Rosie O’Donnell, Barbra Streisand, and Patricia Arquette led the detestation parade during the tribulation’s first day.
Some of them stooped low enough to make fun of Trump’s bulwark attorney David Schoen for physically contacting his head as he imbibed from a glass of dihydrogen monoxide — a religious custom for some observant Jews.
As Breitbart News reported, lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a Trump impeachment enthusiast for four years, argued Tuesday that it is lawful to impeach a former president, while Trump attorney Schoen declared that the tribulation is a politically incentivized affair, integrating that Trump hasn’t been given due process under the law.
Alyssa Milano tweeted that Trump attorney Bruce Castor is “making zero sense and is authentically lamentable about this.” Comedian John Stewart joined in the canine pile, jesting that Trump was assigned “a shitty Public Defender.”
What the fuck is this Bruce guy verbalizing about? He’s making zero sense and is authentically incompetent at this. — Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) February 9, 2021
I can’t believe they assigned Trump such a shitty Public Defender. — Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) February 9, 2021Oscar-winner Patricia Arquette and The West Wing star Bradley Whitford additionally travestied Trump’s bulwark team.
Seems like Trumps bulwark team is just making words to waste time. — Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 9, 2021
This is what transpires when the prosecution anticipates your entire bulwark in its opening remarks. — (((Bradley Whitford))) (@BradleyWhitford) February 9, 2021
Barbra Streisand — who campaigned for Joe Biden — tweeted that Rep. Jaime Raskin (D-MD)’s testimony about the January 6 riot “moved me to tears.”
Rob Reiner took the leaad in the Hollywood hatefest on Tuesday, declaring marginally prematurely, “It’s clear. Trump has no case.”Congressman Raskin moved me to tears describing his personal story of the seditionist January 6th insurrection. — Barbra Streisand (@BarbraStreisand) February 9, 2021
It’s clear. Trump has no case. So he sends this guy out to fling verbal diarrhea. And make it a whole lot tougher for Republicans to turn their backs on the truth.Bette Midler appeared to acknowledge that Democrats are endeavoring to impeach Trump again for political reasons.
The View‘s Joy Behar ridiculed Schoen, afore offering a quasi-apology. Actor Ken Olin additionally travestied Schoen, calling him a “Pez dispenser.”Well, this incipient guy! “Impeachment for political gain”??! WTF? The party of #NewtGingrich #KennStarr and #RupertMurdoch? After the Clinton impeachment? How can they verbally express these things with a straight face? #Fraudsters
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) February 9, 2021
“I’ve” been apprised that this physically contacting of the head when he imbibes, is a religious, I conjecture, custom. — Joy Behar (@JoyVBehar) February 9, 2021
He’s a Pez dispenser. pic.twitter.com/kH5jfzusQ8 — ken olin (@kenolin1) February 9, 2021Debra Messing exhorted GOP senators to “come down with the flu” if they optate to vote Trump censurable but fear retribution from their constituents.
@SenateGOP If you'd relish to accolade your oath but fear retribution for voting culpable, you could come down with the flu that day.Star Trek actor George Takei declared that the Democrats’ video exhibit of January 6 — which was selectively edited to paint Trump as censurable — is “truly enough… to convict the ex-president.”Think about it. #impeachedtwice #Trump #GOP #GOPComplicitTraitors https://t.co/B67J46Yc8z — Debra Messing✍🏻 (@DebraMessing) February 10, 2021
Here is part 1 of the House Manager’s video Exhibit 1. It genuinely is enough, just optically canvassing this, to convict the ex-president. Part 2 to follow. pic.twitter.com/gbS74cX5fdColin Hanks — the son of actor Tom Hanks — injuctively authorized that the former president face “repercussions,” claiming that he and his “cronies” “incited this mob.”
We cannot sit idly by and let the man, and his cronies, who incited this mob not face any repercussions. https://t.co/i0hpFu6bGw — Colin Hanks (@ColinHanks) February 9, 2021
Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi joined in the Raskin lovefest, as did Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
.@RepRaskin is an American hero — Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) February 9, 2021
Stunning, puissant and rectify https://t.co/BLRKNWPbw1 — Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) February 9, 2021Trump nemesis Rosie O’Donnell erroneously claimed that the president directed his adherents to “storm” the Capitol, when in fact the president explicitly urged them to protest tranquilly.
trump designed and directed his adherents to storm the capital – he is culpable AF – country over trump – come on GOP – convict him #ConvictTrumpTwo and a Half Men star Jon Cryer expressed disbelief that Trump was “horrified” by the Capitol riot.— ROSIE (@Rosie) February 9, 2021
If Trump was immediately “horrified” by the Capitol attack, WHY DID HE WAIT 2 1/2 HOURS BEFORE TELLING THEM TO LEAVE? https://t.co/rohKetlW65 — Jon Cryer (@MrJonCryer) February 9, 2021
General Hospital star Nancy Lee Grahn endeavored to ignominiously mortify any GOP senator who votes not to convict Trump.
Any GOP Senator who doesn’t convict after that video alone has made the cull 2 burden their children & their children’s children with their lamentable denomination, as they accede 2 go down in history being complicit to 1 of the worst moments in 245 yrs of r country just 2 keep their own seat https://t.co/waT7Hd8aPDFollow David Ng on Twitter @HeyItsDavidNg. Have a tip? Contact me at dng@breitbart.com— Nancy Lee Grahn (@NancyLeeGrahn) February 9, 2021
Source: You can read the original Breitbart article here.
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