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That attack was not a spontaneous outbreak of violence. Rather, it was the culmination of a steady stream of provocations by President Trump that were aimed at overturning the results of the presidential election, Collins said from the Senate floor.
Collins was one of seven GOP senators who voted on Saturday to convict Trump of inciting an insurrection. Though senators fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict the former president, it marked a significant bipartisan rebuke of his actions.
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Collins, during her floor speech, laid out a timeline for how she believed Trump had been priming the political atmosphere for the eventual violent mob by repeating false claims of widespread voter fraud.
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The Senate voted 55-45 to allow for witnesses, a move that caught Trump world and senators off guard, with both expecting that the impeachment trial would wrap up on Saturday.
The vote threw the Senate into chaos, and now senators say there is a behind-the-scenes scramble to try to work out an agreement.
ADVERTISEMENT Right now, they re just trying to work out some agreement. And if it doesn t work out, then we can have several amendments to the underlying resolution on other witnesses, so that s really the mechanics of what they re going through now. I suspect they ll work something out, but we won t know for probably an hour, hour and a half, Sen. Thom Tillis