Pat Cipollone (Getty Images/Saul Loeb)

“I couldn’t say it better myself,” concluded Trump attorney Pat Cipollone in his summation at Tuesday’s Senate impeachment trial – reacting to a video he had just played reminding Democrats of their own past declarations about impeachment.

“All you need in this case, is the Constitution and your common sense,” Cipollone said in his remarks to the Senate. “You just look at the articles of impeachment. The articles of impeachment fall far short of any constitutional standard, and they are dangerous.”

Cipollone urged senators to “look to the words of the past that I think are very instructive.” “They are instructive because they were right then and there right now, and I will leave you with some of those words, Cipollone said.

The video montage showed what Democrats at the 1998 House impeachment hearings, such as then-Representative Chuck Schumer (D-NY), providing dire warnings of the consequences of a politically-motivated, partisan impeachment.

“You were right. But. I am sorry to say you were also prophetic,” Cipollone said. “And, I think I couldn't say it better myself, so I won't.

“You know what the right answer is, in your heart. You know what the right answer is for our country. You know what the right answer if for the American people.”