How Many New Twitter Followers Did Each of the Impeachment Managers Pick Up?
Representative Stacey Plaskett attracted nearly 100,000 in just the past few days.
Photograph courtesy C-SPAN.
The second impeachment of Donald Trump kicked off this week with a cinematic presentation illustrating the violence at the Capitol on January 6 and arguing that Trump instigated the insurrection. The impeachment managers leading the prosecution have received a lot of attention from lead manager Jamie Raskin’s impassioned speech to Virgin Islands Representative Stacey Plaskett quoting GZA so we used social media analytics tool Social Blade to see how that surge in popularity has been reflected in their Twitter followings.
House managers in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump built a strong case on Wednesday that showed the former president deliberately setting out about six months earlier on the path toward the 6 January riot. This is when the groundwork for the “Big Lie” began.
The “Big Lie” refers to Trump’s charge that the election on November 3 2020 had been stolen or irregular.
The House lead impeachment manager, Representative Jamie Raskin, kicked off the Democrats’ presentations by responding to Trump’s lawyers:
“Some people think this trial is a contest of lawyers, or even worse, a competition between political parties. It’s neither; it’s a moment of truth for America… America needs the truth about ex-president Trump’s role in inciting the insurrection on January 6.”