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Impeachment Trial: Democrats Argue Trump Wasn't 'Just Some Guy' Speaking Out
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February 11, 2021
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1:33Now PlayingRepresentative Joe Neguse, one of the House impeachment managers, said the central claim by Trump’s defense team that he was exercising his First Amendment rights in addressing a crowd of supporters on Jan. 6 is simply a way to sidestep what the president did.
“To hear his lawyers tell it, he was just some guy at a rally expressing unpopular opinions,” the Colorado Democrat said. In fact, he said, Trump spent months using “the unique powers” of the presidency to gather supporters and direct them to attack the Capitol.
“They’re wrong on the facts, wrong on the law but would flip the Constitution upside down,” he said.
Unless senators are ready to convict and punish Trump for his actions, he said, future presidents could do what Trump did in refusing to accept an election’s outcome “and get away with it.”
“You are here to adjudicate real evidence, real facts. Not hypothetical ones,” Neguse said.
Representative Jamie Raskin, the lead impeachment manager, said that Trump had an obligation to side with the Constitution, not with insurrectionists. Nothing in the Constitution can excuse his “betrayal” of his oath of office, he said.
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