"Nobody is really making the argument, 'Donald Trump would never do such a thing!'" Adam Schiff argued on the floor of the Senate, after 10 p.m. ET. "Because of course we know that he would, and of course we know that he did." Schiff's use of character attacks would ordinarily have been barred by the rules of evidence, if the Senate were in fact a court of law. Attorneys are prohibited from attempting to prove guilt by attacking the character of the defendant.