‘Serious crime’ or just ‘theater’?

Trump’s lawyers insist as the trial opens Tuesday that he is not guilty of the same charge of “incitement to revolution,” his fire words are just a figure of speech, even as he urged a rally crowd to “fight like hell” for his presidency. The Capitol siege on Jan. 6 stopped the world when protesters stormed the building to try to stop the declaration of the victory of President Joe Biden.

No witnesses are expected to be called, partly because the elders who were sworn in as jurors, who are forced to flee for safety, will receive graphic videos that have been recorded that day. Tied up at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trump has refused to confirm a request.

The first president to face accusations after resigning and the first to be twice convicted of heinous crimes and misconduct while in office, Trump is still challenging the country ‘s civic customs and traditions even in loss. Security is still very tight at the Capitol. While freedom is likely to be achieved, the lawsuit will test the country ‘s view of its primary power, the Democrats’ determination to pursue it, and the loyalty of Trump’ s Republican alliances to protect it.

“In trying to make sense of Trump’s second trial, the public should remember that Donald Trump was the first president ever to refuse to accept his case,” said Timothy Naftali, clinical professor at New York University and Richard Nixon ‘s impeachment Saga expert, which ended when Nixon retired rather than give up.

“This test is one way of having that difficult national conversation about the difference between dissent and revolution,” Naftali said.

White House news secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that Biden will be busy with the presidency and will not spend much time watching the events on television. “He will leave it to his colleagues in the Senate,” she said.

In films, lawyers for the former president have made a wide-ranging appeal against the House issue, dismissing the lawsuit as a “political theater” on the same floor in the Senate called the mob. attack.

Trump defenders are preparing to challenge both the constitution of the trial and any suggestion that he was to blame for the uprising. They suggest that Trump was only exercising his First Amendment rights when he urged his supporters to protest at the Capitol, and argue that the Senate has no right to try Trump now that he has resigned.

House impeachment managers, in their own films, insisted that Trump had “betrayed the American people” and that there is no excuse or legitimate defense.

“Inciteing a revolt against the United States government – which has disturbed the peaceful movement of power – is the worst constitutional crime a president has ever committed,” Democrats said.

With senators gathered as an impeachment court, the trial begins Tuesday with a debate and a vote on whether it is constitutionally permissible to sue the former president, an argument that could be agreed upon by a Republican who is willing to vote to get Trump without being seen as approving of behavior.

Under an agreement between Senate Visiting Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican leader Mitch McConnell, the opening arguments would begin at noon Wednesday, with up to 16 hours each side for demonstrations.

After that, there are hours for deliberations, witnesses and closing arguments. The trial was set to expire Friday afternoon for Jewish Sunday, but Trump’s defense team withdrew the request, worried about the delay, and now the trial can continue into the weekend. and next week.

A major impeachment test is among the worst of the Senate cases, which have been conducted just three times before, leading to the release for Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton and then Trump last year.

Elders usually sit at their desks for times like that, but the COVID-19 crisis has gone up even from this tradition. Instead, elders will be allowed to spread out, in the “marble room” just off the floor of the Senate, where proceedings will be shown on TV, and in the public galleries above the chamber, to give place to social distance, according to someone who knows him. the conversations.

Trump’s second impeachment lawsuit is expected to override the long, complicated relationship a year ago. In that case, Trump has been accused of putting private pressure on Ukraine to dig up dirt on Biden, who was then a Democratic rival for the presidency.

This time, astronomy played a Trump “stop the theft” rally and storm the Capitol out to see the world. The trial is likely to end in half.

The Democratic-led House slammed the president, a week after the strongest attack on Congress in more than 200 years. Five people died, including a woman who was killed by police inside the building and a police officer who died the next day from his injuries.

Prosecutors of the house are expected to rely on videos from the siege, along with intelligent astronomer Trump refusing to accept the election, to make their case. His new defense team has said they plan to go against their own repository of videos of Democratic politicians making fire speeches.

Initially blown away by the graphic images of the attack, a number of Republican elders have cooled their criticism as the intervening weeks have given them some distance.

Senators were inducted as jurors late last month, shortly after Biden was inaugurated, but the lawsuit was delayed because Democrats were focused on proving the first cabinets of the new president and Republican trying to stop.

At the time, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky voted to postpone the case as non-legislative because Trump is no longer in office. The 45 Republican votes within Paul ‘s vote show that it is impossible to reach a conviction in a Democrat – held Senate of 50 seats but that a two – thirds vote would be required – or 67 senators – to condemn Trump.

Only five Republicans joined the Democrats to reject Paul’s motion: Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.