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The impeachment in the Supreme Court case against Donald Trump spent the third day showing senators why it can be dangerous for the United States to vote for acquittal.
This article is updated with the content of the Supreme Court case of the third day, which began on Thursday at 6 pm. In addition, the content is published in The day of the news. You can view the Supreme Court case in the video window at the top.
Jamie Raskin and his colleagues on the House impeachment team ended their presentation on Thursday and the presentation of the evidence that former President Donald Trump moved his own supporters and, therefore, is jointly responsible for the attack on Congress on January 6 .
– They said they came because the president ordered them to come, said Congresswoman Diana DeGette, who among other things showed a video recording where one of the rebels is heard during the attack shouting “We are waiting and receiving orders from our president.”
– Do you want to risk your life?
DeGette also referred to statements by Jacob Chansley’s lawyer, the man known as the shaman QAnon, that he regrets “very, very deeply” that he was misled by Trump. Read more about it here.
Raskin took videos and social media posts of the assault on the Michigan State Assembly on April 30 last year, calling it Trump’s “essay.”
– My dear colleagues, is there any political leader in this room who believes that Trump, if the Senate ever allows him to return to the Oval Office, will stop inciting people to violence to get his way? Raskin asked.
I had several rhetorical questions:
– Do you want to risk the lives of more police in it? Do you want to risk the safety of your families? Do you want to risk the future of your democracy for it?
“If we have shown you the conduct that we assert in this indictment, then President Trump has committed” felony and other crimes, “as stated in the constitution, concluded Jamie Raskin.
– Trump is offended
While prosecutors were in the Senate, one of Trump’s defense attorneys, David Schoen, took the time to speak to Fox News.
Schoen said Trump is “in a good mood” and does not want to be associated with the attack on Congress on January 6, for which the Supreme Court indictment accuses him of being responsible.
– He’s quite offended that they’re trying to connect him with him, Schoen said.
He and his colleague Bruce Castor will begin defending Trump on Friday. According to CNN, they expect to finish during Friday.
Republican reactions in the American press may indicate that the defense does not need to spend a lot of time; Trump will be acquitted anyway.
Senator Ted Cruz puts it bluntly:
– The outcome of this Supreme Court case is predetermined. President Trump is acquitted. I think this Supreme Court case is a waste of time and the result of the minds of Democrats in Congress, Cruz says.
Trump remains the most popular Republican in the country, party colleague Marco Rubio noted after the second day.
FREE TRUMP: Ted Cruz had already decided before the case started.
Focus on the timeline
While the first day of the Supreme Court was used to determine that the Senate can convict a president who has resigned, the prosecution team on the second day presented the core of the case. Over the course of eight hours, they presented new and previously released video footage, statements by Donald Trump himself, of supporters attacking Congress, and through court documents of some of the more than 200 indictments that have been issued.
Prosecutors focused on the timeline and demonstrated how Trump supporters reacted to specific statements by Trump, both before the congressional attack and during the attack itself. Several of Trump’s supporters even say they took action because Trump wanted it.
We were able to see tweets where Trump attacked his own vice president, Mike Pence, and videos in which his supporters shouted that Pence should be hanged. We were able to see the image of the gallows that supporters had placed outside of Congress.
Experts: guilty, but acquitted
VG spoke to ten people here in Norway on Wednesday who have a wealth of experience in American politics. All ten experts believe that Trump is guilty after the impeachment, that the attack on Congress came as a result of Trump’s inflammatory words.
– Yes. All sensible attorneys in the US agree on two things: It is constitutionally correct to bring it before the Supreme Court, and this is what the Supreme Court was designed to do: protect the system against people who try destroy it from within, says university professor Ketil Raknes from Christiania.
All ten experts also agree that Trump will be acquitted.
A key challenge for the prosecution team is that several of the senators going to try or acquit Trump even supported or repeated the same unfounded allegations of voter fraud that the prosecution team believes created the anger that led to their supporters. to break into Congress.
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