WASHINGTON: Senators are about to vote on whether Donald Trump will be held accountable for inciting the Capitol’s horrific attack after a speedy lawsuit that left the violence and the threat to their own lives so dangerous and fragile in which the country’s tradition was about a peaceful movement of presidential power.
Just a month after the deadly riot, closing arguments are set for a historic impeachment lawsuit while seniors arrive for a rare Saturday session, all under the watchful eye of National Guard armed soldiers still protecting the statue building.
The outcome of the swift, raw and emotional events is expected to reveal a nation divided over the former president and the future of his political brand in America.
“What’s important about this test is that it’s really partly aimed at Donald Trump, but it’s more focused on some president we don’t even know 20 years from now,” he said. Sen. Angus King, who is independent of Maine, pressed for a vote.
The nearly week-long lawsuit has delivered a grim and graphic account of Jan’s riots. 6 and the impact it had on the country in ways that elders, most of whom fled for their own safety that day, admit that they are still engaged.
Acittittal is expected in the fairly divided Senate, a judgment that could have a profound impact not only on Trump’s political future but on the time of the sworn senators to unjust justice. biased as jurors when they voted.
House prosecutors have argued that Trump’s rally call to go to the Capitol and “fight like hell” for his presidency as Congress called for Jan. 6 to confirm Joe Biden’s election was part of of an orchestrated pattern of violent astronomy and false claims released by the mob. Five people died, including a rioter and a police officer.
Lawyers defended in three hours on Friday that Trump’s words for inciting violence and impeachment were nothing but a “witch hunt” designed to curb his to serve in office again.
It’s just by watching the graphic videos – protesters call out threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence, who were in charge of the entire vote – said elders that they began to understand just how dangerous the country was coming into chaos. Hundreds of protesters entered the building, taking over the Senate and some engaging in bloody hand-in-hand combat with police.
While it is unlikely that the Senate would be able to condemn the two – thirds vote that needs to be condemned, it appears that several senators are still measuring their vote. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell will be closely watched for issues, but he is not pushing his GOP side of the aisle and urging senators to vote conscientiously.
Many Republicans representing states where the former president is still skeptical whether Trump was to blame or whether impeachment is the appropriate response. Democrats appear all but united toward condemnation.
Trump is the only president to be twice inducted, and the first to face trial charges after leaving office.
Unlike last year’s trial of Trump’s impeachment in Ukrainian relations, a complex allegation of corruption and obstruction over his efforts to get the foreign alliance to dig dirt on Biden at the time , this one gave an emotional punch about the fragility of the country’s tradition. of peaceful elections. The indictment is single, inciting terrorism.
On Friday, Trump’s impeachment lawyers accused the Democrats of launching a “hate” campaign against the former president while weaving in their defense. Senate towards a final vote in its historic test.
The defense team strongly denied that Trump incited the deadly riot and played video clips out of context showing Democrats, some of whom are now senators serving as jurors, also urges supporters to “fight,” aiming to establish a parallel with Trump’s overheated astronomy. .
“This is usually political astronomy,” Trump’s lawyer, Michael van der Veen, said. “Countless politicians have talked about fighting for our principles. ”
But the show clarified the difference between a general incentive that politicians do to fight for health care or other causes and Trump’s fight against officially accepted national election results, and it diminished Trump’s efforts to eliminate these election results. The deposed president urged his supporters to fight after each state confirmed their results, after the Electoral College ratified them and after almost all an election lawsuit filed by Trump and his allies denied in court.
Democratic elders shook their heads at what they called a false equality with their own fiery words. “We did not want them to ‘fight like hell’ to overthrow an election,” said Sir Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut.
Democrats say Trump is the “inciter in chief” whose months-long campaign against the election results was rooted in a “big lie” and laid the foundation for the unrest, a domestic violence attack on the Capitol. in history.
“Get real,” said chief prosecutor Jamie Raskin, D-Md. At one time. “We know this is what happened.”
The Senate has called in a court of impeachment for former president Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and now twice for Trump, but nature has never seen the issue as he is no longer in the White House has given one of several arguments to Republican elders against conviction.
Republicans maintain that the proceedings are unlawful, even though the Senate voted at the beginning of the trial on this issue and declared its sovereignty.
Six Republican elders who joined Democrats in voting to raise the issue are among those most watched for their votes.
Signs came early Friday during questions to the lawyers. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, asked the first question, the two substitutes known for independent streaks. They led to a point made by the prosecutors asking when exactly did Trump learn about the Capitol breach and what specific actions did he take to end the riot?
Democrats had argued that Trump did nothing as the mob protested.
Another Republican asked his vote to launch the lawsuit, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, about a Trump tweet criticizing Pence’s times after he told another grandfather that the vice-president sitting upright empty.
Van der Veen replied that the president had never been informed of any threat. Cassidy later told reporters it was not a very good response.