![]() Oral Arguments - House prosecutors and Trump’s defense team each have 16 hours over two days to present their arguments. ![]() Next - 'Speedy' trial is set to play out to Sunday, February 14 ![]() 9: The Trial - The Senate voted to proceed with the trial after a debate on whether a former president can be tried. 26: Motion to Dismiss - The Senate voted narrowly to move forward with the trial with only five Republican Senators voting in favour of it.įeb. 25: Delivery to the Senate - Article of impeachment was delivered to Senate. Jan 13: Impeachment Vote - The House passes the article, impeaching Trump for the second time. 11: Article of Impeachment - The House introduces one article against Trump accusing him of inciting the Capitol riot. Trump's defense finished up their case after three hours of presenting.Castor insisted "we have a complete lack of evidence for the article presented by the impeachment managers".Bruce Castor urged: "Political hatred has no place in the American justice system and certainly no place in the Congress of the United States".Impeaching Trump seems unlikely as 67 votes are needed in the Senate, and 17 of those must be from Republicans.Defense lawyer David Schoen said his team has "reason to believe the House managers manipulated evidence and selectively edited footage".Trump's defense team played compiled footage of Democrats using the word "fight".Michael Van Der Veen, one of Trump defense lawyers, blamed the Dems for inciting violence, with the help of a "dangerous, inflammatory rhetoric".Vice-President Kamala Harris was also spotted in the video montage saying: "We like a good fight."ĭay four of Trump's second impeachment trial: One clip showed now-President Biden saying "the vast majority of protests remained peaceful" - and moments later a clip of a fiery BLM protest from 2020 was played.
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