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After a four-hour debate in the Senate, the senators voted that it is correct to impeach Donald Trump.
The Supreme Court case against former President Donald Trump began this Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. The first part of the case was reserved for a debate on whether he can be brought before the Supreme Court, since he has already resigned.
The debate was interesting, but the result was not surprising.
The Senate voted 56 to 44 to put Trump on trial, even though he is no longer president. Trump is accused of inciting a violent mob to attack Congress.
Six Republican senators voted to put Trump on trial, including Susan Collins, Ben Sasse, Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski and Pat Toomey.
Most surprising was that Republican Bill Cassidy, who voted against taking Trump to trial when Republicans tried to “kill” the case on January 27, cast his vote on Tuesday that the Senate has every right to prosecute. Trump on trial.
– If anyone disagrees with my vote and wants an explanation, I ask them to listen to the arguments presented by the House of Representatives prosecution team and former President Trump’s attorneys. Those in the House of Representatives had much stronger arguments regarding the Constitution. Trump’s side did not have it, he says in a statement after the vote.
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Tuesday’s debate in the Senate began with the House of Representatives prosecution team, which is the prosecutor on the case, getting to the rostrum for two hours. Then it was Trump’s defense attorneys who were able to present their side of the case for two hours.
In his opening statement, Jamie Raskin of the House Prosecution Team began by presenting a video of the violent attack on Congress on January 6, in which supporters yelled things like “stop the robbery” and “shut down the door”.
The videos show how a police officer lured Trump supporters down a flight of stairs and led them away from the area where politicians were hiding on the other side of the wall. We also saw that a policeman was shooting at Ashli Babbitt and that a policeman was squeezed into a door.
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He wiped away his tears as he spoke of the attack on Congress
The prosecution team also repeatedly noted that in a video posted on January 6, which was posted after the attack for some time, Trump asked his followers to “go home in peace” but also said: “We love you “.
A tweet from Trump was also frequently featured. There he wrote that “this is what happens and the events that occur when an honorable election winner is robbed so uninhibitedly and brutally from the great patriots who have been treated badly and unfairly for so long. Go home in peace and love. Remember this day forever! ».
Trump later deleted this tweet.
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Has happened before
– If this is not national justice, there is no such thing, said Jamie Raskin, who leads the House of Representatives prosecution team.
Democrat Joe Neguse returned to history and showed an example that this is not the first time that a person who has resigned as an elected representative has been brought to trial.
William Belknap was Minister of War, but resigned after being accused of taking bribes and was later brought before the Supreme Court. He was acquitted.
The defense argued, among other things, that the former president’s statements fall within the scope of freedom of expression.
Painful doubts about the Democrats’ motives
– It is no coincidence that the first freedom in the “Bill of Rights” is the first constitutional amendment, which states that Congress will not enact any laws that restrict freedom of expression. The first addition. The ability to make free and powerful political statements, says Bruce Castor Jr., the first of Trump’s lawyers to deliver his speech.
Castor noted that Trump is not mentioned as an accessory in any of the more than 200 indictments issued after the attack on Congress.
Trump’s lawyers had a hard time preparing, according to the US press. Five attorneys are said to have left the defense team just two weeks ago.
Castor’s colleague, David Schoen, opened by saying his joy at being present in the Senate has been replaced by grief and grief over this “attack on the constitution” in this Supreme Court case.
– We are told that we must do this to be held accountable, but anyone interested in accountability would have waited until a full investigation was completed. Anyone interested in finding the person or persons responsible would have waited until the investigation was completed, Schoen said.
– They say that this case is needed in the superior court so that the nation can heal. I say the nation cannot be cured with that, he added.
“They have made it clear that what they are really concerned about is preventing Trump from running for re-election,” Schoen concluded.
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Schoen then showed clips that various Democratic politicians have spoken from the supreme court against Trump as early as 2017 and 2018.
However, it turns out that Trump himself previously proposed a higher court against a former president, which is contrary to his own defense in this higher court case.
On Tuesday, CNN released a 2020 video clip, in which Donald Trump during a public meeting proposed to bring Barack Obama to the Supreme Court, three years after Obama resigned as president.
