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By Nicholas Fandos
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“I need to step back from the horrors of the attack itself and look at January 6 from a completely different perspective, the point of view of the insurgents themselves: their own statements before, during and after the attack obviously show that the attack was performed for Donald Trump on his orders and to fulfill his wishes. During the rally, President Trump led the crowd in a chant of “Stop Flying. ” This is how that song looked from the perspective of a crowd. Trump : ‘We will prevent the robbery. ‘ Crowd: “Stop the robbery. Stop the robbery. Stop the robbery! “The President rejoiced as the crowd chanted,” Fight for Trump, “and when he suggested to the crowd that they show their strength, other people responded,” Storm the Capitol, “” Invade the Capitol. “As the crowd chanted in the rally, the crowd on Capitol Hill clarified who they were doing this for. “Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump! For Trump! “” All those other people who were arrested and charged, are held accountable, held accountable for their actions. Their leader, the guy who instigated them, will also have to be held accountable. “” January 6 was the culmination of the president’s actions, not an aberration on his part. The insurgency has been the most violent and damaging episode to date in Donald Trump’s relentless tendency and practice of inciting violence. “So if you see someone putting themselves in a position to throw a tomato, throw a shit at them, do you? Would you be serious? I promise I will pay the legal fees. “The president praised a Republican candidate who assaulted a journalist, for being ‘my kind of person. ‘ He said there were, I quote,” other very smart people on both sides “When neo-Nazis, Klan members and the Proud Boys invaded the city, the great city of Charlottesville and killed Heather Heyer. And he said that an attack on a black protester at one of his rallies was” very, very appropriate. ” Does this sound familiar to you? Listen to President Trump’s reaction when asked about his own conduct on January 6. “So if they read my speech, and other people did, it was analyzed and other people thought what I said was quite appropriate iado. “My expensive colleagues, is there any political leader in this room who thinks that if the Senate ever allowed him to return to the Oval Office, Donald Trump would avoid inciting violence to achieve his ends? Would you bet the lives of more cops on that? Would you bet the protection of his family on that? Would you bet the long term of his democracy on that? “” President Trump’s lack of repentance and his refusal to take office after the attack poses his own unique and persistent danger. He sends the message that it is okay to incite a violent insurgency, overthrow the will of other people, and that a president of the United States can do it. And spend with him. His impeachment, conviction and disqualification of him is rarely about the past. It’s about the long term. He makes sure that no long-term public servant, no long-term president does the exact same thing. the same as President Trump. “” If he cannot place that now Today as a felony and a misdemeanor, he has established a gruesome new popular for presidential misconduct in the United States of America. The only genuine query here is the factual query. Have we shown that Donald Trump, then president of the United States, instigated a violent insurgency opposed to the passing government? We have shown you overwhelming evidence in this case, which would convince anyone using your non-unusual sense that it was incitement. “We humbly and humbly ask that you condemn President Trump for the crime of which he is overwhelmingly guilty. Because if it doesn’t, if we pretend it didn’t happen, or worse yet, if we leave it unanswered, who can say?” possibly will not take place again? “
The House Democrats who sued former President Donald J. Trump ignored his case Thursday, calling it a transparent and existing danger to American democracy that could sow new violence like the fatal attack on Capitol Hill last month if he is prevented from returning to office.
Calling on the senators to impart “impartial justice” and adopt the “common sense” of the country’s founders, the nine impeachment officials closed their case by exposing the serious damage that January 6 had caused not only to the legislators of the country. Capitol or police officers, but rather The democratic formula of the United States and its position in the world. None of this, they argued, would have happened without Trump.
“Senators, USA, we want to use common sense about what happened,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin of Mayland, the senior director, reading Thomas Paine. “We’re going to get caught up in a lot of outlandish theories of lawyers here. what has just happened in our country».
Raskin said the evidence Trump had cultivated, incited and then showed no remorse for the attack, justifying making him the first deposed president to be convicted and the first former president to be disqualified from his long-term office.
“If you don’t place it as a felony and a misdemeanor today, you’ve created a terrible new popular for presidential misconduct in the United States of America,” he said.
A day after delivering a heartbreaking account of the fatal violence, filled with unprecedented security images, prosecutors returned for the third day of the trial with new videos, court documents, and interviews in which troublemakers defended their movements citing Trump’s directives. desires.
“We invited here, ” shouted one of them, the clip re-painted in the Senate chamber.
“His own statements before and after the attack obviously showed that the attack was carried out in opposition to Donald Trump, under his orders and to satisfy his wishes,” said Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado.
They also argued that Trump had encouraged and celebrated violence before January 6, as a rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 and fights at his election rallies, and had shown no regrets for stoking thousands of his stalwart supporters. them to “fight like hell” that day. Later, they noted, Trump called his speech “totally appropriate. “
“I’m not afraid Donald Trump will back down in four years,” said Rep. Ted Lieu of California. “I’m afraid you’re going to go back and lose, because you can do it again. “
Their task of condemnation remains an overwhelming task, as their goal is to convince Republican senators who have shown not to break up with Trump to do so.
In turn, the representatives sought to appeal to the Republicans’ sense of patriotism and decency. They read the words of Republicans who voted in the House to dismiss Trump and the former president’s own cabinet secretaries, who resigned in protest following the fatal incident. They broadcast audio from traumatized assistants who had left the government after the attack and recounted the humiliating taunts of foreign adversaries watching them with joy.
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January 6 was the culmination of the president’s actions, not an aberration on his part. The insurgency has been the most violent and damaging episode to date in Donald Trump’s relentless tendency and practice of inciting violence. The president praised a Republican candidate who assaulted a journalist, calling him “ my kind of person. ” big city, Charlottesville, and he killed Heather Heyer. And he said that an attack on a black protester at one of his rallies was “very, very appropriate. ” By responding to extremist plots in Michigan, Trump has shown that he knows how to use mafia force to further his political goals. Starting in March, Trump launched attacks on Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over coronavirus policies in her state. On October 8, the exact consequences of the president’s incitement to violence were revealed to the world. Look at this, thirteen men were arrested through the F. B. I. for conspiring to cause a typhoon on the Michigan State Capitol building, starting a civil war, kidnapping Governor Whitmer, sending her to Wisconsin, and then attempting to execute her. And what has Donald Trump done as president of the United States to protect one of our country’s governors who opposes a planned kidnapping by violent insurgents? Did he publicly condemn violent domestic extremists who expected and planned to start a civil war in America? Not at all. He further enraged them by proceeding to attack the governor, who was the object of his hatred. My expensive colleagues, is there any political leader in this room who thinks that if the Senate allowed him to return to the Oval Office, Donald Trump would avoid inciting violence to achieve his ends? Would he bet the lives of more cops on that? Would you bet the protection of his family on that? Is he betting on this throughout his democracy? President Trump has stated that his conduct is entirely appropriate. So he resumes his duties, and it happens again, we may not have anyone to blame yet.
But as of Wednesday, Republican senators who witnessed a brilliant narrative of an attack they had experienced seemed disappointed by their determination to acquit Trump.
Seventeen Republicans are expected to register for each Democrat to secure the two-thirds majority needed for the conviction.
Trump’s lawyers are expected to file their defense starting Friday noon and intend to deny that he is guilty of the attack or that he intended to interfere with the existing electoral procedure at the Capitol, despite his repeated exhortations to his supporters of “Fight like Hell” to “stop the theft. “
One of the lawyers, David I. Schoen, mocked the Democrats’ presentation as an “entertainment package” and a “offensive” of low supply, an appearance on Fox News during the trial on Thursday.
“In no country where a person’s guilt or innocence is judged, this type of technique would be allowed,” he said.
The trial is moving temporarily and senators can succeed in a verdict until the end of the holiday week. But first, they will have the opportunity to consult the prosecution and the defense, and managers can force a debate and vote on the subpoena of witnesses. .
Aishvarya Kavi contributed to the report.
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