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After exposing the conversation during the break-in to the Capitol: Democrats summoned witnesses to the Trump trial
The summoning of witnesses will extend the trial that was expected to end today, but the former president's acquittal seems guaranteed after Mitch McConnell said he would oppose his conviction.
A key witness is a Republican lawmaker, who described how Trump was furious with a senior Republican during the uprising.
"It has been proven that he was on the side of the rioters"
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Saturday, February 13, 2021, 5:49 p.m.
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In the video: The prosecution has finished presenting the arguments for the Trump trial (Photo: Reuters, edited by: Assaf Drori)
Live broadcast from the Senate
Democratic prosecutors in the dismissal trial of former President Donald Trump asked today (Saturday) to summon witnesses, after a vote in the Senate that approved their expected request to extend the trial that was supposed to end today with a vote.
Democrats want to summon a Republican congressman who witnessed a conversation Trump had with the Republican leader in the House of Representatives during the onslaught on the Capitol.
Jamie Herrera Butler, who is one of ten Republicans in the House of Representatives who supported Trump's removal, said the former president told Kevin McCarthy that the crowd was "more upset" about his election loss than Republican lawmakers.
Most of the trial, which began this week in the Senate, focuses on how much Trump knew about his supporters' intentions to storm Congress on Jan. 6 to prevent lawmakers from ratifying Joe Biden's victory.
Despite new videos unveiled in recent days showing how close Trump supporters were to former Vice President Mike Pence and other senior officials, Democrats do not seem to be able to recruit 17 Republicans who along with them will make up the two-thirds majority needed to convict Trump.
The chances of that diminished after Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell told associates he would vote in favor of the former Republican president.
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A deep wound in the heart of the American nation.
The break-in to the Capitol, last month (Photo: Reuters)
Trump, who left the White House after one term on Jan. 20, is the first president to face two dismissal sentences in the Senate and the first to dare to do so as a citizen.
Although he is no longer in office, his conviction could lead to his disqualification from public life permanently.
He declined to testify at the trial, where he watches from his Florida estate.
Trump's defense attorneys have argued that freedom of expression, protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, protects him from the charge of inciting his supporters to revolt.
Democrats, on the other hand, claim he bears responsibility after encouraging his supporters to "fight" for him, march to the Capitol and "go wild" to make up for his loss in the presidential election.
Lantern and members of Congress were smuggled to shelters during the riots, and five people were killed in the chaos, including a police officer.
Trump's remarks on Jan. 6 were a direct continuation of his false allegations of widespread election fraud, which he voiced for two months.
"Trump's conversation with McCarthy is further evidence that Trump was on the side of the rioters who attacked the Capitol," tweeted Democratic Sen. Ed Markley.
"He has clearly failed to keep his oath to protect and preserve our nation."
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