Bruce Castor's performance on Tuesday was mocked and would have greatly annoyed Donald Trump.
This time, none of that, according to the teams of the former US president, cited by CNN.
Donald Trump's lawyers finished Friday the presentation of the defense of the former US president, denouncing a trial in the Senate of the United States which aims to "eliminate a political opponent".
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Bruce Castor, the last of three defense lawyers to speak, said the trial's objective was "to ban 75 million voters and criminalize political opinions."
An argument already repeated on Tuesday on the first day of the hearing.
By condemning the Republican billionaire, the Democratic prosecutors want to "eliminate a political opponent", he again launched to the senators, jurors at this trial, and who will then be able to ask their questions to both parties.
"Ordinary political rhetoric"
For nearly four hours, supporters of Donald Trump tried to dismantle the theory according to which the ex-president would have incited his supporters to besiege the Capitol on January 6, when the victory of Joe Biden was to be definitively validated there. .
When he thus urged them to fight, to use his words, it was only "ordinary political rhetoric", they defended this Friday in the Senate.
Thus, according to them, his words aimed at calming the climate of tension would not have been taken into account by those responsible for his indictment.
His lawyers even twisted reality by claiming that the first two tweets published on January 6 by Donald Trump both called for calm.
Which is not the case.
They strongly took to task the elected Democrats, accusing them of having launched this second impeachment procedure without ever having let go of a Donald Trump sole during his mandate.
To hear Bruce Castor, the insurrection of January 6 is not even one.
The advice goes much further than the words expressed in early January by Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader (Republican) who spoke to him about a failed insurrection.
"They legally laminated the prosecutors"
Democratic prosecutors, who demand to condemn the former president to ineligibility, want to "eliminate a political opponent", again launched Bruce Castor to senators, judges and jurors.
Using the same weapons as the Democratic prosecutors, the lawyers of the Republican billionaire released numerous videos, carefully edited, to remind that their client had regularly presented himself as the protector of "law and order", but also that its opponents themselves have frequently made heated speeches.
Donald Trump is not attending this trial, the outcome of which seems decided in advance.
It is indeed very unlikely that 17 Republican senators will agree to vote with the 50 Democratic senators to form the qualified majority necessary for his conviction.
He is "very optimistic," one of his lawyers, David Schoen, said Thursday on Fox News.
Still, a handful of elected officials from the Grand Old Party appeared disturbed by the relentless presentation of Democratic prosecutors over the past two days.
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Others applauded the presentation of the defense.
"They legally flattened prosecutors", commented Senator Ron Johnson during a recess, for whom Donald Trump's lawyers "have above all shown that the First Amendment applies to political speeches."
In the morning, Joe Biden, who has spent more than 35 years on the benches of the Upper House of Congress, said he was "impatient" to see what his Republican "friends" would do in the vote, hoping they would take "Their responsibilities".