Prosecutor displays "incitement and storming of Congress" videos

The Senate votes in favor of moving forward with Trump's trial

Democratic prosecutors on their way to the courtroom.

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56 members of the US Senate voted to 44 to proceed with the trial of former President Donald Trump, as part of his impeachment proceedings. Democratic prosecutors began the trial of Trump, showing a video recording containing the fiery statements of the Republican billionaire accused of "inciting rebellion", and scenes of storming His supporters are at the seat of Congress, on January 6, while Trump's defense expressed his fear of "tearing the country apart."

Six Republicans have joined the ranks of the Democrats to assert the constitutionality of Trump's trial, and the Democrats will need at least 17 Republican votes in order to achieve the two-thirds majority needed to convict Trump.

Trump, who is currently based in Florida, did not appear before the Senate as part of the trial, which began the day before yesterday, and he expressed confidence that the House will acquit him thanks to the great Republican support he still enjoys.

Democrats seemed intent on reminding the 100 members of the Senate, who make up the jury at this trial, of the violence that took place on the day of the storming of Congress, which resulted in the death of five people, and the Democratic attorney and attorney general, Jamie Ruskin, considered that the indictment file against the former president was based on "facts Concrete and solid », and presented a recording of about 10 minutes, highlighting the sequence of events that preceded the storming of the Congress headquarters, and a recording of Trump’s speech in which he called on thousands of his supporters gathered in front of the White House to go to the Congress headquarters to demonstrate peacefully and nationally, and he said:« No Take back our country if you are weak ».

The recordings included scenes of demonstrators crossing police obstacles, storming the Congress headquarters, and wandering through its corridors in search of parliamentarians, while a number of Congressmen, and Vice President Mike Pence, were evacuated from the Senate, while others took cover in the halls of the House of Representatives.

Ruskin recalled that, two hours later, Trump released a video recording, in which he reiterated that the elections were "rigged," and Ruskin said: "If these events do not require impeachment, then nothing requires it."

Ironically, the 100 members of the Senate are simultaneously the jury, as well as witnesses and victims of the attack, and this is what Democratic prosecutors emphasized, denouncing the "lies" of the Republican billionaire, who for months considered that the elections were rigged, without No evidence of this is provided.

"Like each of you, I was evacuated when this violent mob tried to storm Congress," said Representative Joe Neguez.

In response to the defense team’s main argument that a former president in the Senate cannot be tried, he stressed that “presidents cannot instigate a rebellion in the last weeks (of their term), and then leave as if nothing had happened.”

Lawyers for former President Trump have argued that their client cannot be charged with negligence because he is no longer in office, and they also said that Democratic lawmakers are continuing impeachment measures in an attempt to prevent Trump from running again in the future presidential elections.

And Trump's defense team considered that the former president did not incite anyone to do wrongful acts, and one of the defense lawyers, David Shawn, said, “This trial will cause the nation new and deep scars, because many Americans see it for what it is: an attempt by a group of politicians to get Donald Trump out of Political life, and the deprivation of 74 million voters of their rights. ”

He considered that the trial was "political", and would make the United States "more divided" and would greatly weaken its position in the world.

The lawyer asserted that "these elites mocked them for four years," and continued, "They did not like the results of the 2016 elections," repeating a saying that the former Republican president had always repeated.

He considered that the Senate was not the body with jurisdiction to try "an ordinary citizen", and that Trump's trial was "a violation of the constitution."

Trump's defense argues that the trial is political, and it will make the United States more divided.

• 6 Republicans joined the ranks of the Democrats to confirm the constitutionality of the trial.

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