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Republican Senators acquit Trump for role in January 6 insurrection
That assault, by flag-waving, armed Trump supporters, came shortly after Mr. Trump spoke, and followed months of him spewing the so-called Big Lie: that he had been fraudulently denied re-election. We fight like hell, he told a crowd of supporters at the Ellipse, as Congress was certifying the Electoral College votes. And if you don t fight like hell, you re not going to have a country anymore.
Democratic impeachment manager Joe Neguse, of Colorado: He assembled the mob, he summoned the mob, and he incited the mob.
Seven Republicans voted to convict. Not among them: Kentucky s Mitch McConnell. Yet, the Senate Minority Leader later excoriated Mr. Trump s election fraud lies and the violence he said flowed from them.