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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Feb 2, 2021, 02:23 PM Feb 2021

READ: House Impeachment Managers Say Trump 'Fired a Cannon' at the Capitol in Brief to Senate

Nine House Democrats, managers in the impeachment of President Donald Trump, made their case that that the Senate should convict for high crimes and misdemeanors in a lengthy brief detailing his attacks on the election and the subsequent riot at the Capitol by his supporters.

“[He] summoned a mob to Washington, exhorted them into a frenzy, and aimed them like a loaded cannon down Pennsylvania Avenue,” the Democrats argued in a brief filed with the Senate Tuesday. “President Trump’s incitement of insurrection requires his conviction and disqualification from future federal officeholding.”

The brief, which accuses Trump of being directly responsible for the ransacking of the Capitol Building that left five people dead, bases the case first on Trump’s repeated attempts to undo the election he lost to now-President Joe Biden. It notes Vice President Mike Pence’s refusal to block the election results, and Trump’s attacks on him for doing so.

It notes Trump’s call for his supporters to come to Washington D.C. the day of the Electoral College certification and “fight”.

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READ: House Impeachment Managers Say Trump 'Fired a Cannon' at the Capitol in Brief to Senate (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 OP
That's a powerful visual. Budi Feb 2021 #1
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