PROSECUTORS have finished arguing the case against former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.
House impeachment trial managers on Thursday continued drawing on unsettling video footage, audio recordings and tweets from Trump and his supporters to connect his words and actions with the violence of rioters attempting to overturn the election results on Jan. 6.
The insurrection not only threatened the national security of the United States by showing it was relatively easy to break into and ransack the Capitol, but it also opened the nation to criticism from both adversaries and allies, House trial managers argued Thursday afternoon. Trump “utterly failed in his duty to preserve, protect and defend,” they said.
“The world watched President Trump tell his big lie … the world watched when he asked his supporters to come here to march to the Capitol,” Rep. Joaquin Castro said on the Senate floor. “The world is
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