House Democrats prosecuting the impeachment case against Donald Trump say in a final pre-trial brief the former president’s lawyers are trying to “shift the blame onto his supporters” as they argue he’s not to blame for the Capitol insurrection.
Trump’s team says he was protected by freedom of speech when he told his supporters to “fight like hell” to overturn his election defeat. It says Trump was using “fight” as a general term, not a direction to be violent. The Democrats prosecuting the case this week plan to show videos of the riot and tell graphic and personal stories of the rioting, in which five people died.House impeachment managers plan to lay out a “devastating” case that is similar to a criminal prosecution in former President Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial. That’s according to senior aides familiar with the managers’ arguments.
The aides work on the impeachment managers’ team and were granted anonymity to discuss their upcoming arguments.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
By the time the US gained independence in 1776, Trial by Combat was not formally abolished, nor has it been all the way to present day. 45 should demand Trial by Combat.
This is really sad for our country! We don't believe or trust each other! Its really sending other countries a message that we aren't really in control! We aren't a safe place in which to live in! We never backed Trump from the start! He's strong, we are weak!! Thats the message!
Senate: impeachment is very legal and very cool!
Que manera de perder el tiempo los democrátas, habiendo tantas cosas útiles (pero no populistas) que hacer.
Defense just said to skip the impeachment trial and go straight to criminal trial. If impeached he loses _ 200k+ yr _ 1 million yr travel _ secret service detail _ ability to run ever (separate vote.) If criminal trial he could be charged with _ ?
it is illegal and looks like a political reprisal.
They fear Donald trump so much they don't want him an inch closer to the whitehouse as the president again. All this is but only a political scandal! Heal and move on 🇺🇸
When there is enough hate in the room you can IMPEACH A TOASTER! Now try getting a conviction!
nice to see democrats STILL wasting time that could be used to pass a stimulus or work on foreign affairs or the corona virus or.....nope, still after trump. and they accuse the gop of living in the past!
And may we blessedly get through and quickly forget it.
The election was a fraud
Let us be honest there is no doubt Trumpsters are on video yelling fuck the police and injuring cops. Tired of the GOP making excuses for cop killing! ImpeachmentTrial
Have not even looked at it once. Theater the TheJusticeDept DeptofDefense is running now is COMPLETE SHIT!! It's worse than woody allen snuff film that's in the FBi vaults NIS ~Z
OMG. This guy Bruce Castor Jr is useless. I hope he is working for Trump for free. I can not imagine Trump actually paying him. On the other hand I can’t imagine Trump paying anyone except for his kids and himself.
There was no such 'insurrection, no such taking of the Capitol. The Police opened the doors to the planned show and then blamed TRUMP and sabotaged the objections! All orchestrated! The police invite you to continue.
I love it, they are reading his TWEETS, all that tweeting is come back to haunt him. 😂🤣
What a joke and a waste of taxpayer money
Name a trial where the defendants henchmen were on the jury?
Is it just me finding it ironic none of the presidents in the past who started illegal wars or military interventions which led to millions of death have been impeached?
Too fucking bad! Boohoo
BS !
When you steal elections you can expect people to rise up.
ConvictAndDisqualifyTrump copkillers Sicknick resignmalliotakis
Waste of money? If he is not being arrested, and with the time line released by press, and antifa sightings, how is 45 to be blamed?
It takes five seconds on google to find out it is perfectly constitutional to convict an official who is no longer in office, but I guess it's just easier to remain ignorant and repeat misinformation you heard from randos on the internet.
He must be convicted or presidents are immune to everything.
Remember the 33 hearings republicans had on Benghazi? An attack that killed less Americans than the capital riots!
What a waste of tax $$$ that we could use for Covid relief! No one cares about this
Look at democrats lawyer's with black masks show you they evil for American people
Show some of the many hundreds of hours of footage of BlackLivesMatter rioters attacking police, and innocent people, and $2+ billion in damaged property. Dems never gave a damn.
donald trump 1st president w/multiple criminal acts since taking oath. no law trump did not ignore, flaunt his ignoring or cross repeatedly. nothing done 2 him b/c gop's turned heads & let him have his way on trump's authority jr was allowed 2 kill endangered animals 4 sport.
What a joke👆👆
Am I the only one that thinks it's funny the way they walk in? An orderly almost religious procession 😁
Lamest photo op ever
Watching the impeachment hearings would be like going to a movie with someone who had already seen it and before it even starts they tell you how it ends, there's no mystery how the Republicans will decide whether to convict Trump or not.
Who cares though
While Senate is wanking, we need those $2k checks.
_Politics Watching the opening to the impeachment trial is one of the hardest things I’ve ever watched...all of them are traitors who tried to take over the Capitol, they murdered a cop, they got a woman killed. Republicans who defend trump are cowards now and forever.
Show trial Stalin is getting a boner in his grave
'Historical precedent' not even Nixon was impeached post-presidency, there has literally never been a Former President impeached before. 😭
How are things with the capitol now?
IT IS BIG AND DEADLY GAME AGAINST USA AND SIR JOE BIDEN WE STOPPED IT BECAUSE IS TRUMP IS NOT PRESIDENT OTHERWISE USA WILL IRREPARABLE LOSS. BUT ISRAELI FORCES FIGHTING FOR USA NATIONAL INTEREST DO NOT WORRY.
It’s the first time we’ve seen anyone use the “Mulligan” defense
Trump searching for his wife to help him through the trial
We will find out from this impeachment trial who in Congress is for country vs party/not democracy.
On 1/6/2021 President Donald Trump incited his supporters to storm the capital to stop the confirmation of the incoming President. This resulted in multiple deaths including Capital Police. The attempt was futile & only resulted in delaying the confirmation with multiple arrests.
can someone explain why its jews doing this stuff? Raskin, nadler, schumer, etc
Oh happy day.
Nothing more than political posturing, for future elections.
SenTedCruz and HawleyMO have just shown themselves as the sad losers the continue to be - bitter, sour and low HawleyResign ImpeachmentTrial
_Politics biden effect
_Politics trump effect
Do your job
45 pairs of deaf ears won’t care what evidence is presented
cant wait for republicans to lose the credibility they don't even have anymore and prove that our democracy doesn't work
Criminals have long known that the best way to secure the loyalty of others is to involve them in a crime. It’s not just the people on the receiving end of knuckle-breaking goons who fall in line. Once you’re a goon, it’s very hard to ever be human again.
He’s innocent! MAGA
I wish they played the game of thrones intro song when everyone walked in