WATCH: MAGA riot video Democrats impeachment lawyers say prove Trump’s guilt
Pollemix News – February 10, 2021
Democrats opened their impeachment case against Donald Trump by presenting a 14 minute video montage splicing scenes of violence from the January 06 riots with snippets of Trump’s speech at the Stop the Steal rally. The emotive video was specifically formulated to appeal to the heart strings of Republican Senators, in order to remind them of the chaos and mayhem as lawmakers fled the enraged mob of Trump supporters.
The Democrats are aware that they have little chance of securing the vote of 17 GOP Senators that they would require for impeachment, so the presentation may have been more of a PR exercise rather than a legal argument. Still the video did have a chilling effect on proceedings as Senators watched on in silence, perhaps muted by reliving the terror of that fateful day. Impeachment leader Jamie Raskin summed up the sombre mood with a heartfelt summation of the events saying:
“This trial is personal for every senator and for every member of the House, for every manager and all our staff and the capital police and the Washington DC metropolitan police and the National Guard and maintenance and custodial crews and the print journalists and TV people who were here.”
President Trump’s defense team offered a scathing response to the Democrats strategy with Trump Defense attorney David Schoen decrying the presentation of the video:
“We now learn that the House managers in their wisdom have hired a movie company and a large law firm to create, manufacture and splice for you a package designed by experts to chill and horrify you and our fellow Americans.”
“They don’t need to show you movies to show you that the riot happened here. We will stipulate that it happened, and you know all about it. This is a process fueled irresponsibly by base hatred by these House managers,” Schoen later added.
Although President Trump’s defense team was heavily criticized for their lacklustre performance in the opening exchange, Democrats have thus far failed to provide any ‘bombshell’ evidence that could conceivably garner the 17 Republican votes they would require to secure Trump’s conviction. At this stage, it seems inevitable that Trump will be acquitted unless Democrats are keeping some astonishing piece of evidence up their sleeve.
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