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Prosecutors in the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump have accused the former US president of having prepared the ground for the attack on the Capitol for months.
9:06 pm, February 10, 2021
They accused Trump in the Senate on Wednesday of beginning to instill suspicion and incite his base long before the November presidential election. After the elections, he launched a campaign against his defeat, which culminated in the outbreak of violence in early January.
Trump orchestrated this specifically. “Donald Trump has one serious crime against our constitution and our people engaged, “said the Democratic Chief Prosecutor for the House of Representatives, Jamie raskin, in the presentation of the indictment in the Senate. “It must be condemned by the United States Senate,” Raskin demanded.
Supporters of the president-elect had violently stormed the United States Capitol on January 6. Congress met there to certify the electoral victory of Joe Biden’s successor. Five people died on the brink of the unrest, including a police officer. Trump had recently incited his supporters at a rally that they had stolen his election victory. Among other things, he said: “If you don’t fight like the devil, you will have no more land.”
Democrats accuse him of “inciting a riot” and have initiated impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives, supported by 10 Republican deputies. This procedure is managed and decided by the Senate. The House of Congress assumes the role of a court.
House prosecutors began talking about the matter Wednesday. They have up to 16 hours in total for two days.
Trump sent his supporters specifically to the protests, encouraged violence beforehand and “angered the crowd,” Raskin said on the day of the attack. The then president followed the riots with enthusiasm. “He saw it on television as a reality show.” Trump did not protect Congress and stopped the violence. In doing so, he violated his constitutional obligations. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Trump did not condemn the violence, but again spread lies about alleged electoral fraud and praised the rioters.
Prosecutors presented their arguments in an orderly and calm manner, without any burning zeal. They showed numerous tweets from Trump, as well as videos of his remarks during campaign appearances, in interviews and at the January 6 rally. They go back to the days before the presidential election and explained how Trump built the argument over the months that he could only lose the election on one condition: if it was a large-scale fraud.
“He built this mob for many months.”
Representative Eric Swalwell from the prosecution team said in anticipation of Trump’s appearance that this was not just a speech. “He built this mob for many months.” Prosecutors also filed statements from Capitol rioters who said they had only followed calls from their president.
Trump had not recognized Democrat Biden’s clear victory in the November 3 presidential election. To date, he has not presented any evidence of tampering. His camp failed with dozens of trials. Trump has yet to admit defeat.
With the impeachment process, Democrats want to hold him accountable even after his departure from the White House, while at the same time ensuring that he cannot hold office in the future at the federal level. The prerequisite would be that the Republican be convicted in the impeachment process. The two-thirds majority in the Senate required for this is currently unpredictable.
Trump advocates speak since Friday
After the prosecutor’s presentation, Trump’s defense attorneys are expected to be here on Friday. The procedure is expected to be completed in a few days – at the earliest on the weekend or at the beginning of next week.
The Senate began the process on Tuesday with a debate on the constitutionality of the process. Trump’s defense attorneys argued that the Senate trial was unconstitutional because it was directed against an individual. Trump left office on January 20 when Biden took office. With 56 to 44 votes, the smaller parliamentary chamber declared the procedure constitutional. It was launched in the House of Representatives before Trump ended.
Trump’s defenders got off to a false start on Tuesday. As prosecutors made their mark on Capitol Hill with a 13-minute video of the storm, Trump representatives shook their heads with an impromptu appearance. Republican Senator Bill Cassidy later switched sides. The Democrats had “made stronger arguments” than the former president’s team, Cassidy tweeted.
