Democrats have abandoned their push to call witnesses to testify at Trump’s Senate trial after throwing the process into disarray for several hours.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell signalled he will vote to acquit former president Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.
The former president’s legal team said that the impeachment trial represented a form of “constitutional cancel culture” by his political adversaries.
Despite taking only three out of 16 allocated hours to make their case,and relying on “whataboutism” and false equivalence,Donald Trump’s lawyers have done enough.
After a prosecution case rooted in emotive,violent images from the Capitol siege,Donald Trump’s impeachment trial now shifts to his defence.
“January 6th was a culmination of the president’s actions,not an aberration from them,” impeachment manager Jamie Raskin said.
As Donald Trump’s impeachment trial resumes,Democrats will focus on the damage wrought in the Capitol and the former president’s alleged role in inflaming the rioters.
The Republicans face a truly awful choice. Acquit Trump and they license a seditious brand of politics;convict and they rent themselves asunder.
Democrats opened their first day of arguments in former president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Wednesday with searing footage of the US Capitol riot.
New CCTV showed rioters flooding the halls,narrowly missing crossing paths with Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi's staffers hiding in an office.
The evidence presented on day two of Trump’s impeachment trial offered a fresh and visceral perspective on what took place on January 6.