Castor’s speech was a rambling forty-seven-minute word salad of non sequiturs and head-scratchers, leaving senators in the chamber rolling their eyes and Trump down at Mar-a-Lago screaming at his television set. Castor called himself “the lead prosecutor” instead of defense counsel, talked about the violation of the “very subtle of democracy,” noted that he had gotten lost walking around the Capitol, and explained that a record album was “the thing you put the needle down on and you play it.”
