Trump lawyers slammed for ‘false equivalencies’ in Black Lives Matter video

Unlike the first impeachment, which revolved around clandestine conversations and backroom machinations in Ukraine, Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial has turned into a war of competing videos.

On Friday, the former president’s lawyer David Schoen showed a supercut of liberals seeming to endorse or minimize the occasional violence that attended police brutality protests over the summer, which included clips of elected Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and media figures like MSNBC’s Ali Velshi. Mr Schoen argued these comments “set a dangerous double standard” and invalidated the impeachment.

“We need to show you some of their own words,” Mr Schoen, who previously complained of Democrats’ own video montage, said before launching his.

Nearly all of the comments included in the selection on Black Lives Matter were taken out of context or selectively edited, however, and some observers argued the president’s team was making a false equivalency.