HARRISBURG, Pa. – Bruce L. Castor Jr. answered his cellphone, but he had no time to talk. “I'm 12 minutes from prime time,” he said, before heading to the well of the U.S.
Senate to defend his client, Donald Trump, as one of two defense lawyers in the ex-president's second impeachment trial. It may have marked the high point for him.
Castor's moment in the national glare, televised from the well of the Senate chamber, was seen as an ambling and at times aimless hour-long disquisition in search of a point.
And that was just the opinion of several Republican senators, including steadfast supporters of the president. “I thought I knew where he was going, and I really didn’t know where it was going,” said Sen.