‘Read the Transcript!’ “Long before Democrats finished making their marathon impeachment case Friday night, momentum had deserted them. The loops of repetition had gone from annoying to unbearable and the wild assertions got even wilder as their talk, talk, talk became a trial of its own,” Michael Goodwin writes in the New York Post. President Trump’s legal team on Saturday “began with something Trump has said repeatedly, including to me when I interviewed him Jan. 7: ‘Read the transcript and you’ll see exactly what it is.’” Click here to read more.

House Democrats’ impeachment probe “sounds like something out of Kafka. It would never be tolerated in the U.S. judicial system: no competent judge would bar an accused from attempting to prove his defense; and if one did, any conviction would be reversed on appeal,” former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy writes for National Review.

“The Democrats’ decision to push through a partisan, politically motivated, sham impeachment that lacked any sort of due process, constitutional basis, evidence, or facts, has and will cause irreparable harm to our country . . .  In reality, the Democrats’ work to take down our duly elected president began years ago,” Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) writes in Greenville News.

“Kobe Bryant, despite being one of the truly great basketball players of all time, was just getting started in life. He loved his family so much, and had such strong passion for the future. The loss of his beautiful daughter, Gianna, makes this moment even more devastating,” President Trump tweeted yesterday. The President’s words came after news broke that the 41-year-old former All-Star and his 13-year-old daughter were among the victims of a helicopter crash in California, Aris Folley reports in The Hill.