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This is just awful. BTW if you want to read a great recap of the day visit The Texas Tribune. Here is my snarky comments on the day.

Paxton is just so screwed. I watched a number of hours of the trial yesterday. I pushed through the cross examination by Tony Buzbee waiting for his spray on tan to start dripping down his face. It didn’t happen. Buzbee attempted to put doubt in the testimony of the witnesses. That also didn’t happen. So far the witnesses are solid, right wing, republican, “federalist”, witnesses. They are telling the story of Paxton being warned over and over again about using the office of the Attorney General to help a donor, Nate Paul which is illegal. Yet he continued to do so.

Lt Governor Dan Patrick, looking like a post turtle, did his best to act like a real judge or lawyer. It didn’t work. (A post turtle is a turtle on top of a fence post. He doesn’t know how he got there. He doesn’t know what to do there. And he doesn’t know how to get off.) It is just awkward. Team Buzbee seems like they never tried a criminal defense case before. Buzbee is a personal injury attorney and he too seems like a post turtle. He didn’t help Paxton with his cross examination. He referred to the witnesses by their first names attempting to get a rise out of them. It didn’t work. They were solid. He wasn’t. The only thing Buzbee did was make the witnesses testimony more credible.

This morning Buzbee will attempt to cross examine another witness. It’s not going to go well.

Day three coming up.

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