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Donald Trump lawyers decry impeachment case as political vengeance
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Last Updated: Feb 12, 2021, 11:44 PM IST
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Lawyers for the former president told senators that Trump was entitled to dispute the 2020 election results and that his doing so, including in a speech that preceded the assault on the Capitol, did not amount to inciting the violence that followed.
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Democrats, who concluded their case Thursday, used the rioters own videos and words from Jan. 6 to try to pin responsibility on Trump.
WASHINGTON: Lawyers for Donald Trump opened his impeachment defense Friday by strenuously denying he played any role in inciting the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, blasting the case against him as politically motivated hatred and part of a yearslong Democratic witch hunt.
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Acting Sergeant at Arms Timothy Blodgett, right, leads Rep. Jamie Raskin, second from right, the lead Democratic House impeachment manager, and other impeachment managers, through the Rotunda to the Senate for the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump in Washington on Feb. 9, 2021.
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Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial opened with a video of the then-U.S. president whipping up a crowd at a rally, followed by images of his supporters beating up police officers, smashing windows and ransacking the Senate chamber in their deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building.