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It’s turning out to be another bad year for professional Never Trumpers. Not only are they not getting their way when it comes to Democratic witness demands in the Senate’s impeachment trial, but they’re also utterly embarrassing themselves on a routine basis on social media and during cable news network appearances where their lack of self-awareness is put on display for all to see.
The most recent example of this comes by way of Washington Post “conservative” columnist Jennifer Rubin who, when last we left you, was fawning like a school girl over House Intel Chief Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) presentation in the Senate trial. “Every American should be proud and should know what [Schiff] says is true and right,” she swooned as those of us in the cheap seats tried and failed to contain our laughter.
This time around, Rubin took aim at President Trump’s legal team – but in a much different, more mocking tone. Of Jay Sekulow and Pat Cipollone, Rubin tweeted:
can you imagine if Sekulow and Cipollone had to try a case in front of a real judge? bhahaahhahahahaha
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 28, 2020
Even with Rubin’s well-documented history of astonishingly ignorant opinions, it was still pretty remarkable to see a self-described “recovering lawyer” post such a stunningly bad (and ill-informed) hot take when search engines are literally just a click away:
WAIT WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M NOT A REAL JUDGE?! pic.twitter.com/iXKBVoqqNJ
— Digital Soldier In The Flynn Army ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ (@drawandstrike) January 29, 2020
Why is the Chief Justice of The Supreme Court just a lawn ornament? How does that make any sense?
— Bob Anderson (@rwa_) January 28, 2020
Also Cipollone was a partner on the SCOTUS case of Compucredit v Greenwood in 2012 for Kirkland and Ellis, which he won
— Undercover Huber (@JohnWHuber) January 28, 2020
won 9 of 12 cases in Supreme Court but who is to say they are real judges? IDK
— RockyTopRev (@PastorJustinR) January 29, 2020
"Mr. Sekulow won a string of Supreme Court cases in the late 1980s and 1990s by arguing that bans on various forms of religious expression in public places violated the practitioners’ right to free speech." – New York Times
And you?
— Rep. Steven Smith 🇺🇸 (@RepStevenSmith) January 29, 2020
— Dennis Berwyn (@dberwyn) January 29, 2020
Perhaps the most important point, however, was this one:
She praised Schiff, who fabricated most of his argument, I don't think her opinion matters.
— Writer, CR HIATT⭐⭐⭐ (@CR_HIATT) January 29, 2020
By the way, to say her tweet was seriously ratioed would be the understatement of the month:
In summary: Jen Rubin’s credibility crisis is very, very real.
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