Former President Trump
Donald Trump: NRCC financial chairman: Republicans who voted for Trump accusation will not be punished Blinken, the first call from the UN, after the US rejoins Climate Accords. WHO senators meet with Trump’s accusation team to discuss strategy MOREThe legal team closed their defense in the indictment after speaking less than four hours on Friday, accusing Democrats and the news media of a double standard.
Advocates said the Democrats themselves used violent rhetoric about the social justice protesters, disputed Trump’s election college and questioned the outcome of the previous election.
They have repeatedly broadcast footage of the GOP’s biggest antagonists, including the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
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There were celebrities, too, with footage of Johnny Depp and Madonna making burning comments about Trump.
“The article of indictment now before the Senate is an unjust and blatantly unconstitutional act of political revenge,” said attorney Michael Van Der Veen. “This heinous abuse of the Constitution separates our country further if we are to try to come together around shared priorities.”
Democrats exploded the ‘false equivalence’ and accused the Trump team of ignoring their central allegation that the former president deliberately whipped up his supporters to storm the Capitol building on January 6.
“I think it feels like they’re setting up straw men to take them down then, rather than dealing with the fact that the sixth incident took place, under which Donald Trump did nothing to protect this place,” Sen. Michael Bennet
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Trump’s defense team rested after using only 3 hours and 15 minutes of the 16 hours of dedicated time, indicating their confidence that the outcome was predetermined and that GOP senators would vote to acquit.
“Members of the Senate, our country needs to get back to work,” attorney Bruce Castor said. “I know you know it. But instead we are here. The majority party promised to unite and deliver more COVID relief, but instead they did so. We will not take most of our time today, we from the defense, in the hope that you will take back those hours and use them to provide COVID relief to the American people. ”
The former president’s lawyers only briefly addressed the specific allegations of incitement, arguing that Trump did not order the mob to storm the Capitol and that his speech was protected under the first amendment.
Advocates said Trump’s remarks were covered under the comprehensive protection afforded by the Constitution, and that a conviction would hold all lawmakers accountable for the actions of the worst actors in their party.
The defense said there is a high obstacle to convicting someone of incitement, and that recent high court cases require the speaker to ask directly for violence.
Trump’s attorneys also accused House of Commons of deliberately modifying or manipulating their testimony to make it look like Trump wanted violence. They said Democratic prosecutors ignored Trump’s remarks that his supporters should march “peacefully and patriotically” to the Capitol. ‘
“Far from promoting the uprising … the president’s remarks explicitly encouraged those present to exercise their rights peacefully and patriotically,” Van Der Veen said. “Peaceful and patriotic protests are the opposite of a violent attack on the country’s Capitol.”
These arguments come after Democrats for two days displayed Trump’s old tweets and his speeches in the past, in which he warned his supporters that they would lose their country if they did not fight like hell.
Democrats are furious at claims by Trump’s lawyers that they took his tweets and videos out of their context.
They also accused Trump’s lawyer David Schoen of lying when he claimed that the defense had not given the dramatic new video footage of the siege in advance. The never-before-seen videos of senators running for their lives and barely missing confrontations with the angry crowd shook lawmakers as indictment managers showed the clips earlier this week.
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The consideration of Trump’s defense has focused on the argument that Democrats are to blame for promoting the current polarized political environment and that accusation was a last resort to remove Trump from politics once and for all.
“The goal is to eliminate a political opponent to replace the judgment with the will of the voters,” Castor said.
“It’s about canceling 75 million Trump voters … It calls for the constitutional cancellation culture to take over,” he added.
Trump’s attorneys have repeatedly played videos of Democrats urging their own supporters to act in last summer’s social justice protests, or to confront Trump administration officials when they are in public.
One long section of Democrats said they would “fight” to win elections, as opposed to Trump’s calls to “fight like hell.”
In another video, it was shown that Democrats, including General Manager Rep. Jamie Raskin
Jamin (Jamie) Ben RaskinGOP senators praise accusation managers but say Trump will be acquitted The memorandum: Punish Trump or dare a repeat, warns Democrat executives want GOP to rethink Trump’s acquittal (D-Md.), Who disputed Trump’s 2016 election college victory, while another displayed a montage of Democrats questioning election results in the past.
The cuts were meant to make the Democrats guilty of all the things they accused Trump of doing.
“It seems that the position of the House Manager … is that when Republican candidates for office claim that the election is stolen or the winner is illegal, it incites an uprising and that the candidates must know it,” Schoen said.
‘But candidates from the Democratic Party for a publicly elected office are fully entitled to claim that the election was stolen or that the winner is illegal, or to make any other outrageous allegation they can … regardless of whether there is evidence which supports their claim. ‘
Sen. Martin Heinrich
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‘I mean, you have a history, in one case, of encouraging violence through, you know, overt statements, but also canine whistles … versus a history that in no way leads to deaths, deaths of police officers, riots behavior did not lead. It’s just not the same, ‘Heinrich said.
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Calls the defense videos a “distraction” from Trump inviting the crowd to Washington.
“They are trying to draw a dangerous and distorted equivalent,” he said.
Sen. Mazie Hirono
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“It was pathetic and amateurish,” she said.
Updated at 4:49 pm