Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday night that the Senate could “reproduce” the brouhaha between Senator Mike Lee and the indictment leaders after Lee objected to how the executives characterized a report on a call made by former President Donald Trump during the Uprising of the Capitol.
After arguing for the past two days that Trump should be convicted of inciting an uprising on the Capitol, the House’s indictment officials will continue their case on Thursday. It can take up to eight hours from 12:00, but it is unclear whether they will use all their time.
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Administrators are expected to continue arguing that Trump planted the seeds of the attack on the Capitol for months, saying he could not have lost the presidential election unless there was voter fraud; fails to condemn violence from its supporters; to invite a mass of his supporters to Washington, DC on January 6; to tell them to go to the Capitol; and fails to stop the crowd once the riot has begun.
Trump’s defense may technically start arguing on Thursday if the House executives end their opening statements early, but they are likely to start on Friday. Trump’s defense team argues that he was within his first right of amendment to make his claims about the election and that he could not be held responsible for the actions of the criminals who stormed the Capitol. They also say the accusation managers take Trump’s comments out of context.
Jenny Louise Cudd in the Capitol on January 6th. The indictment against former president Donald Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol continues on Thursday.
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The indictment officials tried early in the trial to put forward some of Trump’s expected defense, while also maintaining a solemn tone, playing gruesome video of rioters attacking the Capitol police, seeking lawmakers and their staff and killing the former vice president Mike Pence asks. amongst other things. They rely heavily on Capitol security footage showing the number of calls lawmakers had where they were whipped up by the crowd and possibly injured or killed.
“It is, of course, very disturbing to see the great violence to which our Capitol police and others are subjected,” said Sen. Mitt-Romney, R-Utah, when asked about the video praising Officer Eugene Goodman as a hero for his actions in the riot, leading the senator to safety. “It tore you in your heart and brought tears to your eyes. It was overwhelming and emotional.”
But the solemn tone was broken on Wednesday during a spit between Lee, R-Utah and the indictment managers – and it could escalate on Thursday as the indictment managers try to “fix” the point as Schumer, DN.Y., said could happen .
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While Chief Jamie Raskin, general manager of the indictment, was preparing to close the House’s arguments for the day, Lee asked to be acknowledged, saying the indictment managers incorrectly described what happened when Trump called Jan on his phone. has. 6. He requested that the statement, made by Rep. David Cicilline, DR.I., be removed from the record of the trial.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on Wednesday held talks with executives of indictments over a call former President Trump brought to his phone on Jan. 6.
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‘Judgments were attributed to me moments ago by the House’s accusations … regarding the content of talks between … President Trump and Senator Tuberville. It was not made by me. “It is not accurate and is contrary to fact,” Lee said.
“I’m moving … to get them off the record,” Lee continued.
Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Who chairs the indictment, said Lee’s motion was not provided for in the rules. Lee then appealed the decision and asked for a vote on inquiry.
But Leahy’s statement on what the rule was was not clear and gave rise to a few minutes of talks on what the Senate would vote on exactly. Schumer places the Senate in a quorum call “as we work it out.”
It appears that what Lee objected to was related to a call that Trump, according to Lee, made during the riot in the Capitol. The call was actually intended for Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., And Lee gave his phone to Tuberville so he could talk to Trump.
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Cicilline claims that Lee said the content of the call was that Trump asked Tuberville to further delay the certification of the election results. But Lee claims he has never said anything like that.
On this July 14, 2020, lies a file photo, the candidate of the Republican U.S. Senate and former Auburn football coach, Tommy Tuberville, during a campaign in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo / Butch Dill, File)
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The story in the Deseret News in Utah of January 7 that made the news of the Trump call to Lee intended for Tuberville, Lee calls the statement that the call happened. But that does not reveal the content of the call between Trump and Tuberville. In a CNN story published the next day, it is alleged that Trump tried to persuade Tuberville to make further objections to the Electoral College, but did not mention the information to Lee or Tuberville.
However, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani also left a voicemail with Lee during the riot in which he explicitly called for Tuberville to delay the certification of the election results. The recording of the ballot has been widely reported, but the conversation between Tuberville and Trump does not exist.
‘Tonight, the House’s accusation managers made false statements that included sen’s report. “Lee’s misunderstood a telephone conversation between President Trump and Senator Tuberville, ‘a spokesman for Lee said on Wednesday. “Sen Lee objected to this and asked that the false statements be removed from the record. The managers of the House agreed to withdraw the statements.”
Fox News reached out to a Tuberville spokesman and asked that the senator clarify the content of the call with Trump.
After a few minutes, the senators reached an agreement that would allow them to end the trial for the night. Lee withdrew his request for a vote on Leahy’s ruling, and Schumer withdrew his quorum call and asked Raskin to make a statement.
In this image from the video, House Prosecution Manager Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Speaks during the second trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, February 10, 2021.
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“The indictment manager, Mr Cicilline, quoted a newspaper account against which the leading senator objected, correctly and accurately. We are therefore happy to withdraw it on the grounds that it is not true and we will withdraw it tonight without any impairment of the ability to resubmit if possible and then we can debate it if we need to, ‘Raskin said.
He added that it was “doing very little” because the specific comments were “not critical” to the case.
“That’s not true,” Lee could hear in the background as Raskin went through his explanation. “You are not the one mentioned here as a witness,” he said.
“We can re-appoint it tomorrow if we have to,” Schumer said before ending the Senate proceedings for the night.
Fox News’ Chad Pergram, Jason Donner and Marisa Schultz contributed to this report.