17m ago
19:02
Afternoon
summary
• Donald
Trump’s legal team has set out their defense in the former president’s second
impeachment trial.
• The
defense has centered largely on two themes: that Trump is protected by the
right to free speech, and that Democrats are guilty of hypocrisy.
• Lawyers
for Trump played a video showing various Democrats using the word “fight”, as
they accused Democrats of hypocrisy for criticizing Trump’s speech to
supporters on 6 January.
• The
video, or a version of it, was played at least four times by Trump’s legal
team. But the film lacked key context – at no point were Democrats speaking to
an angry, pugnacious crowd, and at no point did those Democrats urge their
supporters to march on the US Capitol.
• In
a separate argument, lawyers seemed to suggest that Trump’s speech, whether it
was dangerous or not, was protected by the first amendment.
24m ago
18:55
It’s not for me to say Trump’s lawyers have run
out of ideas, but we’ve now seen the fight video, or a version of it, at least
four times.
The video cuts crucial context from Democrat’s
remarks. Trump discussed fighting on January 6 after he had whipped up a crowd
with false claims of election fraud, then he urged them to march on the US
Capitol, where he implied more fraud was about to occur.
None of the Democrats ever did that.
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