Democratic House impeachment managers on Wednesday are introducing never-before-seen U.S. Capitol security video of the riot on Jan. 6 to demonstrate the extent of the violence, as they opened the Senate trial of former President Donald Trump.
The security video is expected to show how close lawmakers came to some ...
The House impeachment managers kicked off day one of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial with a searing video of the Capitol attack, reminding senators of the stakes of the trial—and of the danger they had faced—at the beginning of an argument about the constitutionality of impeaching someone after he’s left office. Day two begins the actual arguments for convicting Trump, and it’s expected to bring more video evidence of what Trump incited and how he incited it.
The arguments will be presented by the nine House impeachment managers, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin. They have 16 hours to make the case over two days before Trump’s alternately incompetent and scary defense has the same amount of time. You can watch on most television news channels or their websites, and Daily Kos will have live coverage.
Raskin’s recounting of Trump’s statements and actions on Jan. 6 is so disturbing all on its own, it shouldn’t even be necessary to see more. But obviously, it is.
Rep. Neguse finishes with a call out to the senators, telling them that his proudest moment in Congress was coming back that night “with you” to finish counting the electoral vote.
Rep. Joaquin Castro is taking over the narrative to explain in detail Trump’s incitement of his supporters.
Using months of Trump’s statements about the rigged election—going back as far as May—is good strategy on the House managers’ part. Showing Trump’s supporters saying months before that they will reject a Biden win caps it. They are going to make it every Republican senator rejecting their argument look as bad as Trump.
Rep. Castro doing a good job of explaining just how unusual Trump’s statements about a rigged election. These claims are unlike anyone “at any level of government.”
People have become so used to Trump’s lies, it’s hard to realize just how out of the ordinary they are.
Castro’s presentation includes footage from all the protests in the states starting in November, during the initial vote counting, all of it following Trump tweets and statements. There was ample evidence for what would happen on January 6.
Igor Bobic reports from the chamber: “Hawley is the only senator sitting alone in the gallery. He spent most of the presentation with his legs crossed reading paper from a manilla envelope. He did look up and watched as Neguse showed criminal complaints from the rioters charged by DOJ.”
Swalwell points out that Trump spent $50 million on national "STOP THE STEAL!" ads that ran until January 5 -- the day before the insurrection pic.twitter.com/ZKVMaG22d4
On Tuesday, anti-Trump CNN host Don Lemon said that those who stand with former President Donald Trump have no right to tell others to respect the police.
Lemon made his comments on his CNN program “Tonight.”
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Republicans "should have been embarrassed by the fact that after that video they still voted not to continue this trial," adding that "it suggests that they really are afraid to face the facts or they're afraid… of their constituents." pic.twitter.com/dI4G3AeuAn
After showing the video that was presented on Tuesday of the Capitol Hill attack by the House impeachment managers, Lemon said, “Blue Lives Matter, huh?”
The video showed some of the mob action as the protests turned violent. Police officers who tried to hold protesters back were injured as protesters tried to break police lines and access outer doors to the Capitol.
Seeming to talk to Trump supporters, Lemon continued, “Law and order, law and order, respect the flags, respect law enforcement. Why don’t you just comply?”
“Don’t you dare even say that again if you can stand by after that video and give Donald Trump, of all people, Donald Trump… and his mob a pass,” Lemon said.
The CNN host then implied anyone who supports Trump has no right to defend “law and order” and the police again.
“If you can do that, I don’t ever want to hear that again,” Lemon said. “I don’t want to hear that from you.”
“I don’t want to hear family values from you,” he went on. “I don’t want to hear respect police officers from you. I don’t want to hear it.”
Scholar says Trump's lawyers misrepresented writings on impeachment defense.
"If someone [cites] an authority and you go and look and the authority says the opposite of what they're citing for, that reflects very poorly on the lawyers," says Brian Kalt, law professor pic.twitter.com/JY9wOG3mBs
Lemon insisted that Trump backers lacked any moral standing to demand moral behavior of others.
“No moral high ground to stand on,” Lemon said. “Look who is on your side there. There have been a lot of lies.”
“We’ve been warning you about all the lies,” Lemon finished.
The “lies.”
Isn’t Don Lemon a personality on a cable outlet that spent years promoting the Russian collusion hoax?
All the liberal media on CNN and MSNBC that lied about the Russia Hoax & Nick Sandman are still on air, while those that raise election integrity concerns are cancelled? @LouDobbs will find a new home and his audience will follow him, but this #CancelCulture must end. https://t.co/XuiWQzYn1O
CNN Spent Years Promoting Russian Collusion Conspiracy Theory
Journalist Glenn Greenwald reported in 2017, “Three prominent journalists resigned Monday night after the network was forced to retract and apologize for a story linking Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci to a Russian investment fund under congressional investigation.”
“That article — like so much Russia reporting from the U.S. media — was based on a single anonymous source, and now, the network cannot vouch for the accuracy of its central claims,” Greenwald noted.
Don Lemon was part of the Trump-Russia conspiracy chorus for a very long time.
Greenwald observed of the 2017 CNN story, “Embarrassments of this sort are literally too numerous to count when it comes to hyped, viral U.S. media stories over the last year about the Russia Threat.”
Additionally, CNN was the subject of a massive lawsuit over their false reporting of Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann.
Sandmann and his fellow students were blasted by the media for wearing MAGA hats at the 2019 March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., where they were confronted by counterprotesters.
Lemon stated, “The MAGA hat carries a certain connotation that provokes a conditioned reaction from many people, especially from marginalized people… Their chaperones should be keenly aware of that. Those kids should know that. And let’s say that the kids didn’t because they are kids, their chaperones should be responsible enough to educate them.”
Sandmann would subsequently sue CNN for $275 million dollars, and the network later settled for an undisclosed amount.
Don Lemon has no right or moral standing to correct other about “lies” or most anything else.
Trump lawyer Bruce L. Castor Jr. defended his performance Tuesday in the Senate, saying it has "not been communicated" to him that former President Trump was angry over his statements during the first day of the Senate impeachment proceedings.
Anyone who watched the back-to-back presentations of the House impeachment managers and former President Donald Trump's legal team on the first day of the Senate impeachment trial could see that this was a massive mismatch.
President Donald Trump's legal team is scrambling to collect and produce more videos to bolster their impeachment trial arguments after a rambling debut performance that enraged the former president and dismayed Republicans, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
A divided Senate voted to proceed with former President Trump's second impeachment trial, setting the stage for opening arguments today; A lawyer stuck with a cat filter during a virtual hearing has gone viral on social media
After a harrowing first day that included graphic video evidence, the Senate will today hear opening arguments in the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. CBS News' Debra Alfarone joins "CBSN AM" from Capitol Hill to recap yesterday and set the stage for today's proceedings.
