Mr. Sekulow also griped about process, one of the presidential apologists’ favorite distractions. Citing the monthlong delay by Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, in transmitting the articles of impeachment to the Senate in an attempt to press that chamber to call witnesses, he intoned: “Danger. Danger. Danger. That’s politics.”

We feel you, counselor.

As on Saturday, the president’s team held their presentation on Tuesday to two hours. For them, shorter is better. Additional details and facts are not helpful. Their goal is to keep the audience’s eye on their central claims: This impeachment is purely political. The House managers failed to present any direct evidence of presidential wrongdoing. To legitimize this partisan sham will undermine American democracy.

First up Tuesday was Patrick Philbin, deputy counsel to the president, whose job appeared to be to do damage control on the presentation delivered on Monday by his teammate, the celebrity defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz. Mr. Dershowitz had asserted that impeachment requires an explicit act of criminality — a position that many, many people have disputed, including Mr. Dershowitz during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton back in the day. Mr. Philbin spent quite some time explaining that, even if you don’t buy Mr. Dershowitz’s argument, that’s not a problem, because what Mr. Trump is accused of doing isn’t impeachable by any reasonable standard. And he didn’t do it anyway.

Mr. Sekulow went next, with a presentation that seemed to have been plucked straight from the president’s Twitter feed. Condensed version: Mr. Trump is a victim of partisan witch hunts and deep-state coup attempts the likes of which would crush an ordinary mortal.

As on Saturday, Mr. Sekulow kept asking people to put themselves in the president’s shoes. Consider all that Mr. Trump has suffered, he urged. Mr. Sekulow then ticked through the high points of the pet conspiracy theories peddled by the president and his Fox News fan club. The Steele dossier got a mention, as did Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, James Comey and, of course, Robert Mueller, as Mr. Sekulow pursued the Trumpian path of attacking the credibility of everyone who has ever dared question this president’s chronically questionable behavior. “So that’s what the president’s been living with,” Mr. Sekulow said sadly.