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POLITICO By ALEXA VELICKOVICH 02/11/2021 09:38 AM EST You see their names under headlines, on TV and occupying your Twitter feed, but who are the people Behind the Byline? We’ll take you inside the POLITICO newsroom through interviews with our top-notch editorial team to provide insight on who we are, what we do and how our journalism is produced. Former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial began this week, almost a year after Trump was acquitted by the Senate in his first impeachment trial. We spoke to POLITICO reporters who were on the ground a year ago to understand how co...

The trial starts Tuesday afternoon with the first day devoted to a debate on the constitutionality of the proceeding. Each side will get two hours to make their cases before a vote.

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Feb 8, 2021 11:48 AM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday blasted the impeachment case against him as an act of “political theater” as they accused House Democrats of exploiting the chaos and trauma of last month’s riot at the U.S. Capitol for their party’s gain. In a brief filed on the eve of the impeachment trial, lawyers for the former president leveled a wide-ranging attack on the case, foreshadowing the claims they intend to present when arguments begin Tuesday on the same Senate floor that was invaded by rioters on Jan. 6. Th...

1. They illogically argue that House Dems supported violence at the Capitol, while Republicans looked on in horror. See if you can follow along with this logic: according to Trump, the House Managers are “glorifying violence” by detailing the specific events of Jan. 6 in their impeachment memo. In a brazen attempt to further glorify violence, the House Managers took several pages of their Memorandum to restate over 50 sensationalized media reports detailing the horrific incidents and shocking violence of those hours. Counsel for the 45th President hereby stipulate that what happened at...