The second impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump is an unconstitutional act of “political theater” by Democrats who have ignored key facts about the Capitol uprising in their haste to judgment, his lawyers argued in a lengthy, written defense on Monday.
The 75-page trial memorandum says the charges against Trump “inciting insurrection” are belied by the words he actually spoke to his supporters before they stormed the halls of Congress – as well as evidence showing that the attack was actually planned in advance.
One might have been excused into thinking that the Democrats’ feverish hatred of Citizen Trump and their ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ would have been broken by now, as he is no longer president, and yet for the second time in little more than a year. years the United States Senate prepares to serve as the indictment court, but this time on a private individual who is a former president, ”his lawyers wrote.
With the trial set to begin Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers accused Democrats of “working out a mechanism to silence a political opponent and a minority party,” and urged the Senate to “summarize this brutal political act. to reject”.
“The real truth is, the people who criminally violated the Capitol did so of their own accord and for their own reasons,” argue lawyers Bruce Castor, David Schoen and Michael van der Veen in the new filing.
Speaking at a Monday morning news conference in Queens, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said both sides were “finalizing a resolution … that will ensure a fair, fair, two-pronged trial against Senate impeachment.”
“Truth and responsibility are essential,” said Schumer.
“Some people say, ‘Oh, let this go.’ Oh no, something awful, so cowardly [as what] happened on Jan 6, you can’t sweep it under the carpet. You must have brought out the whole truth, then the accountability as soon as the truth comes out. That’s what we want to do in this trial. “
Schumer also said that “each side will have ample time to present arguments” and that “there will be a vote” if the house managers are to give evidence. “That’s what they asked. They weren’t sure they wanted to testify. They wanted to keep the option. That’s exactly what we’re doing,” he said.
Trump’s defense will argue that the trial is unconstitutional and that a careful analysis of Trump’s words in a pre-riot speech and afterward exempts him from misconduct.
Mr. Trump concluded his speech at the Ellipse by stating ‘[s]Let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I want to thank you all. God bless you and God bless America. Thank you all for being here this is incredible. Thank you. Thank you, ”says the application.
“Despite the House Managers’ charges against Mr. Trump, his statements cannot and could not reasonably be interpreted as a call for immediate violence or a call for a violent overthrow of the US administration.”
In his speech, Trump told supporters that he had been defrauded for reelection by fraud and urged his supporters to “fight hard” to convince lawmakers to invalidate swing state voters. Skirmishes at the Capitol started before the speech ended.
Five people died after Trump supporters broke into the Capitol and disrupted President Biden’s certification of victory.