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House Democrats Rest Their Case in Impeachment Trial, Urging Trump Conviction
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February 12, 2021
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3:24Now PlayingHouse prosecutors concluded their case for convicting Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment trial, saying they’ve proven that the former president is guilty of inciting an insurrection when a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
“Senators, America, we need to exercise our common sense about what happened,” Representative Jamie Raskin, the lead impeachment manager, said in the Democrats final arguments. “Let’s not get caught up in a lot of outlandish lawyers’ theories here. Exercise your common sense about what just took place in our country.”
House managers spent three days highlighting Trump’s own tweets, speeches and comments to argue that his months-long campaign to stoke anger about the Nov. 3 election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. The attempt to overturn the results with “the big lie” the election was stolen culminated in the riot he did nothing to prevent or stop, they argued.
Trump’s lawyers are set to present an abbreviated defense on Friday, which will include video presentations after House managers played gripping footage of the assault on the Capitol and violent attacks on police officers.
David Schoen, one of Trump’s lawyers, said he expects the defense to take four hours or less, even though each side was allowed 16 hours for arguments.
“We’re just putting on the evidence, the evidence speaks for itself,” he said after leaving a meeting with several Republican senators. He said there was nothing inappropriate about meeting with senators who also are serving as jurors in the trial.
“That’s the practice here,” he said. “There’s nothing about this thing that has any semblance to due process whatsoever.”
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