Donald Trump's lawyers in turn unsheathed carefully edited videos, Friday on the fourth day of the former president's trial, to denounce the “
hypocrisy
” of his Democratic accusers.
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Mirroring the shock images projected by Democratic prosecutors, the defenders of the Republican billionaire broadcast in the Senate precincts several montages, including one of ten minutes, showing all the figures of the Democratic Party using the term "
se beat
”.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, several senators and elected House officials who serve as prosecutors in the trial: the film shows them all with that word to mouth, according to clips played and replayed until creating a feeling of dizziness.
Donald Trump has been on trial since Tuesday in the Senate for "
inciting insurgency
".
He is notably criticized for having launched "
Fight like devils
" to his supporters, just before they launched an assault on the Capitol on January 6, when the elected officials certified Joe's victory. Biden for the presidential election.
For his lawyers, this term is part of "
ordinary political rhetoric
", used by elected officials of both parties.
As proof, they released another video, in which Democrats use threatening remarks against their opponents ("
You are going to pay the price, watch out
" ...) "
This rhetoric has become excessive
" but it is protected by the first amendment of the Constitution which guarantees freedom of expression, said Michael van der Veen, for whom the lawsuits against the former president are "
absurd
" and "
unfair
".
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As for the unprecedented violence of the attack on the Capitol headquarters, which Democratic prosecutors recalled with other films on Wednesday and Thursday, it was condemned by Donald Trump, along with other violence, pleaded his lawyers, by broadcasting images of the riots that marred some of the anti-racist protests in the spring.
"
Stop the hypocrisy,
" concluded Me David Schoen.
The former real estate mogul has every chance of being acquitted, perhaps as early as this weekend, with the Constitution imposing an almost unattainable two-thirds majority for a guilty verdict.