Third day of the 'impeachment': "Trump knew exactly what he was doing"

The trial of Donald Trump in the Senate passes leaving little doubts about the acquittal of the former president, given the majority support of the Republicans, and about the ultimate purpose of this

procedure

: a declaration of political repudiation, an alarm to public opinion, a national catharsis.

The Democrats who exercise the prosecution have used an arsenal of violent images of the assault on the Capitol, many of them unpublished until now, mixed with the inflammatory messages of Trump to leave sentence, at least, the political form that he represents.

This Thursday, the managers of the

, the group of Democratic congressmen sent by the House of Representatives to act as prosecutors, plan to conclude their argument by also using multiple recordings and focusing on the performance of the president during the hours of that 6 January in which the attack occurred.

The head of the group of members of the House of Representatives, Jaime Raskin, denounced the "total lack of remorse" that the Republican showed that afternoon and stressed that the president "knew exactly what he was doing" and the effect that his words would cause when he urged the protesters to march to the Capitol and "fight like hell" to take back the country.

The first

the Republican, which ended a year ago, became a parade of witnesses who described a kind of parallel diplomacy of the then president, tried for using presidential power to pressure Ukraine in order to obtain dirty laundry that would harm the his political rivals, with Joe Biden at the helm.

This case, however, will go down in history for a few devastating minutes of video of that fateful January 6 that caused astonishment among the senators who must vote the verdict and who, many of them, were targets of the mob.

Americans could see how Agent Eugene Goodman, praised for his courageous performance during the incident, cut off Republican Senator Mitt Romney, a regular critic of Trump detested for his ultras, and saved him from running into protesters head on.

They also watched security forces rushing then-vice president Mike Pence down the stairs with his family.

Pence, a religious conservative who had been the president's loyal squire for four years, refused to boycott the session of Congress that was to confirm Joe Biden's victory that day.

Some assailants shouted "Let's hang Pence."

In other tapes, assistants to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, appear taking refuge in an office while the assailants try to break down the door.

"This breaks your heart and brings tears to your eyes," Senator Romney said Wednesday night.

"I am angry, I am affected and very sad, we are reliving everything," said Senator Lisa Murkowski, another Republican also opposed to the former president, who, like Romney, has voted in favor of carrying out the impeachment procedure.