| Updated February 10, 2021
The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began Tuesday with a detailed and emotional argument from the House impeachment managers for why the Senate has the constitutional authority to try the former president. Their argument featured a video of the sacking of the U.S. Capitol as directed by Trump, including footage of a rioter being shot. They described brutal violence against police officers. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) recounted how his daughter and son-in-law, who had come to watch the counting of the electoral votes, feared for their lives amid the rampage.
Trump’s team responded with incoherence, threats and excuses ― a harbinger of what’s to come as the Senate continues its trial of the 45th president.
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In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)
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DENVER â Congressman Joe Neguse, one of two Colorado Democratic impeachment managers for former President Trumpâs second Senate trial, argued Tuesday that there was a constitutional authority to hold a trial, convict Trump and keep him from holding public office again.
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Replay Video UP NEXT The Senate voted along mostly partisan lines Tuesday to pursue Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, after hours of arguments and the airing of a gripping documentary of the deadly Capitol riot that followed Trump’s inflammatory rally on Jan. 6. Aided by the graphic 13-minute video that spliced violent images of the Capitol siege with Trump’s rhetoric, Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) and other impeachment managers delivered an impassioned account of the physical and emotional trauma to lawmakers, police, staffers and local residents. They said there was no “January exception” in the Constitution meaning that a president couldn’t escape accountability through impeachment just becaus