12/24/2023 0 Comments 1 fail 1win apexTrump knows the Senate doesn't have the power to respond to him in kind. ![]() Despite its relative brevity, the defense presentation found ways to undermine the logic, law and the legislative branch of government. The Trump team told senators that Congress is powerless to hold the former president accountable because he was impeached both too quickly and too slowly. His lawyers mounted a case that amounted to suggesting an alternate reality to lawmakers who had personally endured the attack. He refused to appear as a witness in his own defense against impeachment. You got what you deserved, Trump implicitly told Congress that day in his tweets and phone calls to members. He scoffed at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's pleas for help. ![]() He egged on the rioters as police were overrun, his vice president was evacuated, and House and Senate members cowered in fear. ![]() When the voters cast Trump aside, he rallied a mob in Washington and sent them to the Capitol to stop the certification of his defeat. Voters, many Republicans said at the time, should decide Trump's fate.
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