Trump Impeachment Videos: What Did We See?

Democrats have presented their case against Donald Trump at his impeachment showing chilling recordings, including never-before-seen video, of the Capitol riots.

The purpose of the indictment has been clear: to link Trump and his words to the deadly mutiny that followed.

They also want to make sure that the jury of senators and, more importantly, the Americans they see at home, see the brutal violence of the mafia, the panic of the police and the fear of the legislators.

Democrats opened the trial Tuesday with a 13-minute montage of the day.

They changed their tactics slightly on Wednesday, offering an almost minute-by-minute look at the violence.

These are the key moments of the images of both days.

In a new video angle from inside the building, we see a lone police officer keeping watch as rioters made their way violently toward the Capitol.

Protesters break windows. They push in, jumping through the broken glass. Then they kick open the doors to let others in. Some wear hoods and helmets, some hold cameras or Confederate flags.

The Capitol Police Officer attempts to stop the invaders, but is quickly overwhelmed by the dozens of robbers.

Vice President Mike Pence and his family are rushed out of the Senate by members of the Secret Service to a secure room.

Meanwhile, outside, Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman drives armed rioters away from the upper house. Many of these people called for Pence to be hanged.

The rioters were “within 100 feet” of Pence that day.

Senator Mitt Romney turns and runs down a Capitol hall after an officer warns him of the approaching crowd.

This officer is the same Eugene Goodman who also distracted Pence’s rioters.

One floor below, the attackers begin searching the Senate chambers.

New images show the staff of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disappearing from sight minutes before rioters took to the hall.

Hiding inside a barricaded room, the House leader’s staff members speak to each other in low, frantic voices. Right outside, rioters are spreading through the building looking for Ms. Pelosi herself.

The rioters chant: “Where are you Nancy?” In an audio clip, we hear a staff member whisper, “They’re banging on doors trying to find her.”

A man breaks the outer door of the office where the staff is hiding, but not the inner door. Another tries too, but eventually moves on.

The montage from day one began with Trump speaking to a cheering crowd on January 6 before going through clips showing the day’s horror, rendered in excruciating detail and laden with expletives.

Trump reinvigorates his crowd with false claims of voter fraud. “We are going to walk to the Capitol,” he says. A crowd of his supporters has already arrived at the Capitol building.

Chanting “USA, USA, USA,” a group charges the barricade around the compound. Some wear Make America Great Again hats, others are decked out in military clothing, as they stampede through police officers trying in vain to stop them.

Some confront the police, using vicious expletives, calling them “pigs” and “traitors”. The video dates back to Trump’s speech.

As lawmakers gather inside the Capitol building to certify the results of the presidential election and Joe Biden’s victory, the scene outside is in chaos.

Followers hold flags and weapons. A man stands on a makeshift gallows, with a rope. Korean crowd: “Fight for Trump.”

A group of police officers on the steps leading to the Capitol walk away from the rapidly advancing crowd, helpless against the crowd.

The mob comes through the windows and doors of the Capitol. They confront officers within the corridors of Congress.

“You’re outnumbered,” says one. “There is a [expletive] millions of us. And we are listening to Trump, their boss. ”

A group yells “treason, treason, treason” as more Trump supporters rush in. Another group yells “defend your Constitution” as they walk through the corridors of power.

In the footage, Democrats include the chilling moment when an officer shoots and kills pro-Trump troublemaker Ashli ​​Babbitt.

In a hallway outside the House chamber, a group tries to make their way through a set of closed doors. The glass in the door windows is broken. A troublemaker uses a cane to break through as the crowd around him yells “break it, break it.”

We see the hands of an officer on the other side, holding a pistol and pointing it at the mob. We hear a gunshot and see Babbitt fall to the ground.

Legislators cower in the gallery of the House. Someone off-camera yells at them “don’t move.” A group of legislators, many in protective gas masks, are guided by the police to secure places.

A group breaks into the Senate chamber. “This is the Senate?” one demands to know. “Where are they?” another asks, apparently referring to the evacuated senators.

We see some rioters rummaging through papers and materials left by legislators. “There has to be something we can use against these bastards,” says one.

The images show a sprawling crowd, a sea of ​​people on the Capitol grounds. A Confederate flag flies in the foreground.

“That’s why we have to have 30,000 guns there,” says one man. “The next trip,” answers another.

Some of the most disturbing scenes of violence near the end of the video.

Police officers are crushed at an entrance to the Capitol by the crowd trying to break in. It looks and sounds like a pandemonium.

“We need new patriots on the front lines,” yells a troublemaker. Others fire pepper spray at the line of police officers trying to protect the entrance.

A rioter tries to rip the gas mask off a police officer’s face.

The crowd gathers steam, chanting “hahaha” as they try to enter in unison.

We heard a horrible cry of anguish from an officer trapped at the door.

Outside, the crowd cheers: “Fight for Trump.”

The former president’s attorney, David Schoen, said the video was “expertly designed to chill and horrify you and our fellow Americans” as if impeachment “is some kind of bloody sport.”

He described it as “pure, crude and misguided partisanship.”

The defense denies that Trump incited the riots and argued in Tuesday’s trial that the impeachment was unconstitutional. Most senators, including six Republicans, voted in favor of continuing the trial.