Impeachment managers wrap case with new warning on Trump
By Cristina Marcos - 02/11/21 05:09 PM EST The House Democrats making the case to convict former President Trump wrapped up their arguments on Thursday with a warning.
Acquittal, they said, could embolden Trump – or others – to incite violence again in the future.
Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) concluded Democrats' opening argument late Thursday afternoon, capping off two days of presentations that included disturbing new security footage from inside the Capitol on the day of the attack, charging documents against insurrectionists who cited Trump as the inspiration for their crimes, and videos of the mob attacking police officers trying to defend the Capitol.
Some of those videos showed members of the mob breaching the very same chamber where senators are now serving as jurors in the impeachment trial.
One showed the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt, an insurrectionist who was shot by Capitol Police as she tried to jump through a broken window to breach the House chamber while lawmakers, staff and journalists were still evacuating.
"If a president did invite a violent insurrection against our government, as of course we allege and think we've proven in this case, but just in general, if a president incited a violent insurrection against our government, would that be a high crime and misdemeanor? Can we all agree at least on that?" Raskin said.
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