Washington President Trump s legal team on Friday rested their case after less than three hours, prompting another two-and-a-half hours of questioning from senators. Mr. Trump s attorneys tried to argue the former president was being hounded by a political vendetta, and said his actions were protected by the First Amendment.
In their opening arguments, Mr. Trump s attorneys sought to link Democrats to political violence, repeatedly showing a long video montage of Democrats saying the word fight in a variety of contexts to suggest that there s a double standard.
Democrats described the montage as plainly a distraction, and several appeared to be frustrated or even laughing while the video was shown. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was repeatedly shown in the video, tweeted a video montage from her rallies showing her hugging women and girls. In case anyone is wondering what my rallies look like, she wrote.
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ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-16th Dist.) is calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office by use of the 25th Amendment after a mob of the president’s supporters stormed and damaged the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
“Sadly, yesterday it became evident that not only has the President abdicated his duty to protect the American people and the People’s House, he invoked and enflamed passions that gave fuel to the insurrection that we saw. When pressed to denounce the violence, he barely did so, while victimizing himself and seeming to give a wink and a nod to those doing it,” Kinzinger said in a message posted to Twitter.