Not only did they win the Super Bowl, but Donald Trump’s defense team seems to feel that way after the former president was given a second impeachment acquittal.
“We’re going to Disney World,” Trump attorney Michael van der Veen joked to reporters, repeating a phrase uttered by a litany of Super Bowl MVPs since Giants quarterback Phil Simms first said it after Big Blue’s win. in 1987.
Van der Veen uttered the sentence when he left the Capitol after the Senate voted 57-43 against the conviction of the former commander-in-chief on Saturday.
Van der Veen then bumped a colleague with his fist.
Before they left, the group of lawyers looked jovial as they celebrated their victory. Everyone posed for photos and joked with each other.
Earlier in the day, Van der Veen maintained in his closing arguments that impeaching Trump over a heated pre-riot speech would violate his rights to the First Amendment and call the proceedings unconstitutional.
Two-thirds of the senate, or 67 votes, were required to pass a conviction. Only seven Republicans joined Democrats to vote to convict, leaving them 10 short.
A single article of impeachment was filed against the former president while still in office, just a week to the day after the January 6 uprising at the Capitol on the charge of “inciting insurrection”.
The House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump a week the day after the siege, in which five people died.
With pole wires