The US Senate is sitting to decide if Donald Trump is guilty of inciting the deadly January 6 riot at the Capitol. Follow our impeachment trial coverage.
Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey stands by his false claims that it is a"hoax"to blame Trump supporters for the Capitol riot.
Democrats said Trump “assembled,inflamed and incited” his supporters to commit violence and waited until it was too late to condemn the deadly Capitol riot.
Shirkey had earlier apologised after the release of an hour-long video in which he told Republicans last week that the January 6 protest “wasn’t Trump people.”
The former US president’s lawyer Bruce Castor’s opening defence argument was so cringe-worthy that Newsmax,the fiercely pro-Trump alternative to Fox News,cut away.
Trump was impeached by the Democratic-led House of Representatives last month for his role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters.
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The second Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump opened on Wednesday at 5am (Australian time),just over a month after the January 6 assault on the Capitol the House has charged him with inciting.
Trump’s lawyers argue that Trump was only speaking figuratively when urging his supporters to “fight like hell” against the election result.
The US President has no intention of repeating Barack Obama’s mistakes. He knows he must deliver on his early promises - and do so quickly.
Trump’s impeachment trial this week will unfold in a country that feels utterly transformed from 12 months ago,when his first Senate trial occurred.