They could have killed us all': House Democrats open Trump impeachment trial with chilling video of Capitol riot Bart Jansen, Ledyard King, Christal Hayes

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They could have killed us all’: House Democrats open Trump impeachment trial with chilling video of Capitol riot
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WASHINGTON – House Democrats urged Senate Republicans to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting insurrection by reviving the brutal events of Jan. 6 with a chilling video of rioters swarming the Capitol and thrashing police officers.
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On the first day of oral arguments in the impeachment trial, Democrats opened their case with a 13-minute video that showed rioters smashing through the Capitol’s windows and doors. Police officers were crushed and bludgeoned, lawmakers fled down stairs and a gunshot was heard when an officer shot a woman to death outside the House chamber.
Jamie Raskin wearing a suit and tie: Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-MD, speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate on Feb. 9, 2021. © Handout, Senate Television via USA TODAY Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-MD, speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate on Feb. 9, 2021.

Weaved between horrific scenes of violence were clips of Trump’s speech spurring the crowd to the Capitol while baselessly claiming he won the election. Trump also tweeted criticism of Vice President Mike Pence, who was presiding in the Senate when the mob stormed the building.

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House prosecutors, who are called managers, played the video as part of their argument that the trial is constitutional. Trump’s defense team had claimed that the Senate has no jurisdiction over him because he has already left office. But the Senate voted for the second time Tuesday that the trial is justified.

The votes suggested enough support for Trump that he will be acquitted, so House managers targeted Senate Republicans with their arguments. Some Republicans called the emotional presentation compelling but not necessarily persuasive.

“In terms of advocacy they are very eloquent,” said Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., but they “did not change my mind.”

The oral arguments opened a historic trial of the only president to be impeached twice and the only one pursued when he was out of office. Trump was acquitted at his first trial a year ago over his dealings with Ukraine.

Raskin played the video to remind senators about the violence that surrounded them before rioters occupied their chamber and rummaged through their mahogany desks after they evacuated.

The video showed the moment Ashli Babbitt was shot to death outside the House chamber. An unidentified Capitol police officer is heard shouting in pain as he was crushed by the crowd at a ground-level door. Officer Brian Sicknick died the next day from injuries.

Pence presided in the Senate while counting Electoral College votes that certified President Joe Biden’s election. But the video showed a Trump tweet from 2:24 p.m. – after rioters breached the Capitol doors – that said “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.”

The video ended amid silence in the Senate chamber that had been occupied by vandals.

“Senators, the president was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 13 for doing that,” Raskin said. “You ask what a high crime and misdemeanor is under our Constitution? That is a high crime and misdemeanor. If that’s not an impeachable offense, then there is no such thing.”

“Very good opening,” said Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. “Again, I’m trying to digest facts. And I thought the arguments they gave were strong arguments.”

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called the arguments “about what I expected.”

Several Republican senators criticized Trump’s defense team, suggesting that Bruce Castor Jr. meandered in his delivery.

Cassidy said he supported the constitutionality of the trial because the House managers gave a better presentation. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said she was “stunned” by Castor’s presentation, which she called a “missed opportunity.”

David Schoen, another of Trump’s lawyers, said the House managers did “a good job,” but that the Trump team would “have to do better next time.”

Trump’s defense team argued that he should be acquitted, saying he was not trying to incite violence. Among his tweets that day, Trump told rioters to “go home with love & in peace.”

The trial will continue after the Senate voted 56-44 to reject the argument from Trump’s team that the proceeding was unconstitutional because he is a private citizen after leaving office.

But those votes also suggested Trump could be acquitted because a two-thirds majority is required for conviction and more than one-third of the chamber found the trial unconstitutional.

House managers will elaborate Wednesday and Thursday on their arguments for why Trump should be convicted of inciting the insurrection and disqualified from holding future office.

“This was a disaster of historic proportion,” said Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I. “Things could have been much worse. As one senator said, they could have killed all of us.”

Raskin said he’ll never forget the haunting sound of a battering ram against the House door. He recalled how a rioter mercilessly pummeled a police officer with an American flagpole. Officers suffered brain damage and had their eyes gouged, and one lost three fingers, Raskin said.

He gestured to the pin on his lapel identifying him as a member of the House and said lawmakers were removing them as they evacuated.

“Senators, this cannot be the future of America,” said Raskin as he choked up. “We cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government and our institutions because they refuse to accept the will of the people under the Constitution of the United States.”

Castor, one of Trump’s defense lawyers, said that if the Senate convicted the former president it would make impeachment the rule rather than the exception for political differences.

“The floodgates will open,” Castor said, noting that two of four presidential impeachments occurred in the past 13 months. “This is supposed to be the ultimate safety valve, the last thing that happens, the most rare treatment.”

He denounced the mob as “repugnant in every sense of the word.” But he argued that Trump’s speech is protected.

“We can’t possibly be suggesting that we punish people for political speech in this country,” Castor said.

With the constitutionality of the trial confirmed, House prosecutors will now focus their arguments on “powerful” evidence of the death and destruction from the riot, according to senior aides to the managers. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said new evidence would be presented.

“The Senate has a solemn responsibility to try and hold Trump accountable for the most serious charge ever – ever – levied against a president,” Schumer told reporters before the arguments began. “When you have such a serious charge, sweeping it under the rug will not bring unity, it will keep the sore open and the wounds open. You need truth and accountability.”

The nine House managers will return Wednesday and Thursday to argue their case for up to eight hours each day. Then Trump’s defense team will have up to 16 hours over two days to argue their side.

Senators will then be able to ask questions of both sides for four hours. At that point, House managers and Trump’s defense team could request witnesses, which the Senate would vote on.

“It’s going to be the managers’ decision. They haven’t made a decision yet,” Schumer said. “There is going to be a vote, if they decide to call witnesses. But I’m not going to prejudge.”

If there are no witnesses, the House managers and Trump’s defense team would split up to four hours of closing arguments. Then the Senate would vote on whether to convict Trump. If convicted, the Senate could vote on whether to disqualify him from future office.

Slide 1 of 17: Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), second from right, and other House Managers walk through the United States Capitol rotunda on the way to the Senate Chambers to begin the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on Feb 9, 2021.
Slide 2 of 17: A video projection near Union Station in Washington, DC displays scenes from the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill insurrection on the first day of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on Feb. 9, 2021.
Slide 3 of 17: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leads the final vote of the impeachment of President Donald Trump, for his role in inciting an angry mob to storm the Congress last week, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 13, 2021.
Slide 4 of 17: President Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as President in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Slide 5 of 17: Pro-Trump rioters stand on the West front of the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.
Slide 6 of 17: Police with guns drawn watch as pro-Trump rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
Slide 7 of 17: People gather at the base of the U.S. Capitol with large IMPEACH and REMOVE letters on Jan. 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. The group is calling on Congress to impeach and remove President Donald Trump on the day that Democrats introduced articles of impeachment in response to Trump’s incitement of a mob entering the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6.
Slide 8 of 17: Photographer take pictures of the article of impeachment against President Trump during an engrossment ceremony after the House of Representatives voted to impeach him at the Capitol, Jan. 13, 2021, in Washington, DC.
Slide 9 of 17: Impeachment managers (L-R) Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and others walk through Statuary Hall while heading to vote to impeach President Trump for the second time in little over a year in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. The House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump on the charge of Òincitement of insurrection” after a mob attacked the U.S. Capitol where Congress was working to certify the Electoral College victory of President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 6. 10 Republicans voted to impeach.
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Slide 10 of 17: Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) (R) and Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA) (L), alongside House Impeachment Managers (from L) Representatives Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA), look on as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) prepares to sign the article of impeachment during an engrossment ceremony after the US House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump at the US Capitol, Jan/ 13, 2021, in Washington, DC.
Slide 11 of 17: An image on a monitor shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holding the articles of impeachment, as another monitor (R rear) shows President Trump speaking in a video, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Jan. 13, 2021.
Slide 12 of 17: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) leads other House impeachment mangers to the Senate floor as they prepare for the trial of former US President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill Feb. 8, 2021, in Washington, DC. Donald Trump committed the “most grievous constitutional crime” of any US president when he incited supporters to storm the Capitol last month, Democratic prosecutors said Monday on the eve of his Senate impeachment trial.
Slide 13 of 17: Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), second from right, and other House Managers walk through the United States Capitol rotunda on the way to the Senate Chambers to begin the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on Feb 9, 2021.
Slide 14 of 17: Congressmen Jim Jordan (R-OH), left, Andy Biggs, (R-AZ), center, and Mike Johnson, (R-LA), right, walk through the United States Capitol rotunda on the way to the Senate Chambers to begin the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on Feb. 9, 2021
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Slide 15 of 17: Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT, presides over the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate on Feb. 9, 2021.
Slide 16 of 17: Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-MD, speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate on Feb. 9, 2021.
Slide 17 of 17: House Impeachment manger Rep. Joe Neguse, D-CO, speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate on Feb. 9, 2021.

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