Here we are this Monday morning in California’s Central Valley, sunshine with a bit of haze, but seemingly another beautiful day ahead, which appears to invoke a early summer and the accompanying heat.
Tomorrow and far to the east, T-rump’s impeachment trial in the Senate is expected to start, and although the outcome is most-likely acquittal, the show will be impressive.

No doubt the T-Rump is guilty as changed:

NEW: Schumer/McConnell closing in on trial rules, per person familiar:

-Up to 4hrs of debate+vote on constitutionality on Tues
-Up to 16hrs per side for presentations starting Wed noon
-At some pt, managers can request a debate+vote on witnesses
-Working on a Sunday session

— Nicholas Fandos (@npfandos) February 8, 2021

Facts in the case are way-obvious — Trump provoked the MAGA loonies Jan.6 to commit insurrection, and had flamed the fires well in advance.
This morning, Tom Sullivan at Digby’s place smoothly laid it out:

Trump tweeted support for armed protests in Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia last April.
In a May fundraising email, Trump urged followers to join “the Trump Army.”
In a Wisconsin speech in August, Trump said, “The only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged, remember that.”
He repeated that during the Republican national convention.

Trump supporters who arrived for the Jan. 6 rally came because Trump told them to be there.
It would be “wild.”

“Let’s have trial by combat,” Rudy Giuliani, the president’s lawyer blustered.

“You’ll never take back our country with weakness,” Trump said when he took the stage.
“You have to be show strength and you have to be strong.”

Trump urged the crowd to go to the Capitol.
At 2:24 p.m. Trump tweets, essentially, that Vice President Mike Pence had betrayed them by failing to deliver the election to Trump.
The crowd went wild. There were calls to hang Pence.

And on and on.
In fact, this morning T-Rump’s lawyers filed a pre-trial brief, and again it was a doozy:

Trump's legal team also argues that Trump's comments in the months before the January 6 speech were "mischaracterized," and anyway, since the January 6 riot was pre-planned and also started before Trump finished his speech, Trump's speech couldn't have incited it.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 8, 2021

Not only do T-Rump’s loony lawyers claim the insurrection/riot wasn’t off T-Rump’s morning speech Jan. 6, but planned long in advance — well, yeah, that’s due to T-Rump’s inciteful bullshit. The orange turd’s legal team are trying their very-incompetent best to turn eyes away from the storming of the Capitol building and onto inane Constritutional questions — what else could they do.
A good summary of this latest horseshit via Roll Call this afternoon:

House Democrats have a “fevered hatred for Citizen Trump” that is “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” the brief states.

Trump’s lawyers also argue Democrats ignored the Constitution, defectively drafted the impeachment charge, debased their power, committed political opportunism, wielded “intellectual dishonesty and factual vacuity,” are “selfish” to “prey upon the feelings of horror and confusion” on Jan. 6 of all Americans “for their own political gain,” glorified the violence, and have shown a “compulsion to obfuscate the truth.”

That’s in just the first five paragraphs of a 78-page defense brief that has Trump’s arguments against impeachment — that the Senate has no jurisdiction to convict a former president, that the article of impeachment violates Trump’s free speech rights, and that the allegations in it are false, among them — peppered with sharp words for his political opponents.

The brief gives the fullest look yet at Trump’s planned defense, which seeks to narrow the focus to just the words in Trump’s speech on the National Mall on Jan. 6, before a violent mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building in an insurrection at the moment Congress met to confirm Trump’s election loss.
…
Trump’s legal team repeats the former president’s line that he told the crowd to “peacefully and patriotically” use their voices — and puts that phrase in bold at least three times.
Trump’s team calls the House managers’ claim of incitement “simply absurd” because the words in Trump’s speech “speak for themselves.”

“President Trump did not direct anyone to commit lawless actions, and the claim that he could be responsible if a small group of criminals (who had come to the capital of their own accord armed and ready for a fight) completely misunderstood him, were so enamored with him and inspired by his words that they left his speech early, and then walked a mile and a half away to ‘imminently’ do the opposite of what he had just asked for, is simply absurd,” the brief states.

And back at ya:

The House managers filed a response Monday to similar arguments Trump’s legal team made last week, writing that to call some of Trump’s responses to the impeachment charge “implausible would be an act of charity.”

On the free speech claim, the House said that’s not what the impeachment is about and his reliance on that argument is “utterly baseless.”

“The House did not impeach President Trump because he expressed an unpopular political opinion,” the House response states.
“It impeached him because he willfully incited violent insurrection against the government.”

Trial should be interesting, though, also way-irritating to those who seek justice.
It can come later, however:

I am not a provocateur of insurrection, he didn’t say…

This is my favorite of the T-Rump mugs, though, ‘favorite‘ does not mean in any form or fashion, as in, ‘my favorite movie,’ or ‘my favorite song.’
It’s more of an anti-appreciation/like.

And aptly titled, ‘Basic Shapes,‘ by caricaturist/illustrator Chong Jit Leong (and found here), and displays the elemental form of a purloined sociopath — a bloated profile of flatulent bile and arrogant ignorance.