Impeachment managers: 'Trump’s responsibility for the
events of January 6 is unmistakable'
The House
impeachment managers have filed a brief outlining their argument for Donald
Trump’s conviction ahead of the former president’s second Senate impeachment
trial.
“In a
grievous betrayal of his Oath of Office, President Trump incited a violent mob to
attack the United States Capitol during the Joint Session, thus impeding
Congress’s confirmation of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as the winner of the
presidential election,” the brief says. “President Trump’s responsibility for
the events of January 6 is unmistakable.”
The nine
Democratic impeachment managers are Jamie Raskin, Diana DeGette, David
Cicilline, Joaquin Castro, Eric Swalwell, Ted Lieu, Stacey Plaskett, Madeleine
Dean and Joe Neguse.
“President
Trump’s pursuit of power at all costs is a betrayal of historic proportions,”
the managers said in the brief. “It requires his conviction.”
In their
brief, the House impeachment managers argue that Donald Trump’s lies about
fraud in the presidential election directly led to the insurrection at the
Capitol last month.
“President
Trump falsely asserted that he won the 2020 election and then sought to
overturn its results,” the managers’ brief says.
“The only
honorable path at that point was for President Trump to accept the results and
concede his electoral defeat. Instead, he summoned a mob to Washington,
exhorted them into a frenzy, and aimed them like a loaded cannon down
Pennsylvania Avenue.”
The
managers go on to say, “As will be shown at trial, President Trump endangered
our Republic and inflicted deep and lasting wounds on our Nation. ... President
Trump’s incitement of insurrection requires his conviction and disqualification
from future federal officeholding.”
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