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Impeachment: House Managers to Present Case for Trump Conviction
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February 10, 2021
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1:09Now PlayingHouse impeachment managers will have as much as 16 hours over two days to present their case to convict Trump, starting at noon on Wednesday. After that, his lawyers will follow with their presentation of up to 16 hours in a trial likely to run into the weekend, if not beyond.
On Tuesday, the House Democrats showed a damning, if selective, video montage with Trump urging action juxtaposed against the violence of the mob that left his rally to attack the Capitol. And after a shaky start, Trump’s lawyers denounced what one of them called “the political weaponization of the impeachment process,” fueled by “base hatred” and fear that Trump will run again in 2024.
But those were just the preliminaries.
The House Democrats pushing for Trump’s impeachment won an initial victory Tuesday, but it might not be an omen of success. Six Republican senators joined Democrats in a 56-44 vote that the trial of a former president is constitutional. Several of the GOP members bemoaned a rambling opening performance by Trump lawyer Bruce Castor.
Yet 17 Republicans would have to join all of the Senate’s Democrats if Trump’s critics are to muster the 67 votes that would be needed to convict him at the end of the trial, an outcome that remains very unlikel
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