David Schoen, of the Trump Senate trial defense team, hit it out of the park Tuesday and absolutely destroyed his Democrat House Impeachment manager adversaries in arguments and presentation in front of the upper chamber of Congress.

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The procedure started at 1pm EST, as Trump foe Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont presided over the trial as both judge and a juror, something Schoen pointed out.

The Democrats led with Rep. Jaime Raskin of Maryland. Raskin used a maudlin style of presentation, even to go as far as using a dead child as political fodder and wiping away false tears for theatrical effect. He also used a slickly produced video to effectively sway the emotions of television viewers and perhaps some in the Senate.

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The Republicans should have shown this clip from “A Man for all Seasons” in response, as to whether it is constitutional to impeach a president no longer in office.

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Raskin was followed by Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado who was well spoken and reasoned. His delivery was tight, using rhetorical flourishes to dance away from pertinent issues.

Neguse was followed by Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island who stressed non germane issues in front of a body debating jurisdiction. He also tried a saccharine approach, but Raskin had gone to that well previously and it was bone dry by the time Cicilline tried his hand.

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Following a break Trump attorney Bruce Castor took the podium. Castor, though he had his moments midway during his presentation, was underwhelming, tangential, stumbling, and sounded nervous. His pauses were too long and it took him, after many folksy musings, until well into his remarks to get to the point and even then, many of his lines were confused almost to the point of non-sequiters. Alan Dershowitz said he had no idea what Castor was doing and one wag tweeted about the befuddled lawyer, “It sounded like he was trying to wing an oral book report for a book he never read.”

But the day was more than saved by the next Trump attorney, David Schoen. He pulled no punches and obliterated Democrat points on jurisdiction, precedent, constitutional text, Framers intent, bills of attainder, and foremost got to the meat of the thing: The whole process was contrived to deprive voters of the chance to possibly vote for Trump again in 2024.

Schoen relentlessly skewered Democrat arguments and casted doubt on the credibility of Leahy’s role as judge, on Democrat interpretations of the Constitution, and highlighted the total political, not constitutional, nature of the proceedings. He emerges as a star and Democrats will cross him at their own risk.

The outcome was to proceed with the trial. The vote was 56-44, with Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, unexpectedly voting with 5 other Republicans who had already gone on record with favoring a trial.