Category: fox-news/us/capitol-protests

Trump’s impeachment defense rests after three hours: ‘There was no insurrection’

Posted on by Marisa Schultz
Former President Trump's legal team took just about three hours Friday of their 16-hour allotted time to mount a defense for his impeachment charge of "incitement of insurrection" for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Sen. Rand Paul: House managers ‘never made their case’ that Trump incited Capitol violence

Posted on by Samuel Chamberlain
The House Democratic impeachment managers failed to prove that former President Donald Trump incited the deadly riot at the Capitol Jan. 6, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told "Your World" Thursday.

Democratic impeachment prosecutors use rioters’ words against Trump at trial: ‘We were invited here’

Posted on by Marisa Schultz
House impeachment managers Thursday sought to directly connect former President Trump to the Jan. 6 violence at the Capitol by playing statements of the rioters who said they were acting on Trump's request.

House impeachment managers gush over Pence’s ‘patriotism’ after years of criticism: ‘Stood his ground’

Posted on by Audrey Conklin
House impeachment managers on Wednesday repeatedly praised former Vice President Mike Pence for his actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, putting aside past criticism of Pence as they tried to convince Senate Republicans to convict former President Donald Trump.

Hillary Clinton: If Trump is acquitted, it’s ‘because the jury includes his co-conspirators’

Posted on by Megan Henney
Hillary Clinton weighed in on former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial this week, suggesting in a tweet that if the Senate ultimately votes to acquit him, it will only be because "the jury includes his co-conspirators." 

Utah’s Mike Lee says trial statements about him were ‘contrary to fact,’ gets record revised: report

Posted on by Dom Calicchio
U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, succeeded Wednesday in having a Democrat’s statements about him withdrawn from the record during the second day of former President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, according to a report.

Eric Swalwell, Dem congressman linked to Chinese spy, makes impeachment case against Trump at Senate trial

Posted on by Michael Ruiz
Rep. Eric Swalwell’s job as a House impeachment manager is to convince at least two-thirds of the Senate to convict former President Trump of inciting an insurrection, but a number of leading Republicans remain unconvinced that he belongs on the House Intelligence and Homeland Security committees.

Dems pull up another graphic video of Capitol attack in Day Two of impeachment trial

Posted on by Morgan Phillips
House impeachment managers unveiled another graphic clip on day two of the Trump impeachment trial to drive home the chaos that broke out Jan. 6 and tie it to President Trump’s words leading up to the riot. 

Scalise: Trump is out of office, but Democrats are ‘still infatuated with impeachment’

Posted on by Yael Halon
House Democrats have turned the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump into a "Hollywood production," House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., told "America Reports" Wednesday.

Meadows accuses House impeachment managers of ‘conveniently leaving out’ one line from Trump’s Jan. 6 speech

Posted on by Morgan Phillips
President Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows accused House impeachment managers of “conveniently” leaving out a line from Trump’s pre-Capitol riot speech, where he told supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard.