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And the defense counsel says everything that I did after the fire started is irrelevant and the court would reject that immediately and say that's not true at all. When my opposing counsel says that you should ignore the president's actions after the insurrection began, that is plainly wrong and it, of course, reflects the fact that they have no defense to his outrageous, scandalous and unconstitutional conduct in the middle of a violent assault on the Capitol that he incited. The conduct described not only perpetuated his continuing offense, but also provides to us here today further decisive evidence of his intent to incite the insurrection in the first place. The president said, 'Well Kevin, I guess these people' - meaning the mobsters, the insurrectionists - 'are more upset about the election than you are.' That conduct is obviously part and parcel of the constitutional offense that he was impeached for, namely incitement to insurrection, that is continuing incitement to the insurrection. This uncontradicted statement that has just been stipulated as part of the evidentiary record. And when he was told that the insurgents inside the Capitol were Trump supporters the president said, 'Well Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.' After he knew that violence was underway at the Capitol, President Trump took actions that further incited the insurgents to be more inflamed and to take even more extreme, selective and focused action against Vice President Mike Pence.įormer President Trump also, as described by Congresswoman Buetler's notes, refused requests to publicly, immediately and forcefully call off the riots. I want to reject that falsehood and that fallacy immediately. It was suggested by defense counsel that Donald Trump's conduct during the attack, as described in Congresswoman Beutler's statement, is somehow not part of the constitutional offense for which former President Trump has been charged.

IMPEACHMENT MANAGER RASKIN FULL

Here is the full speech delivered by Raskin: As expected, only seven Republicans voted to convict and 17 would have been needed to flip sides to get the two-thirds needed for conviction. Lead Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin, D-Md., delivered a searing closing speech on Saturday as the House impeachment managers pushed to convict former President Donald Trump in the Senate.ĭespite the speech, Trump was not convicted.

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