Stacey Plaskett, one of the House’s impeachment managers, called on former President Trump’s defense team for focusing on “Black women like me” in their video montages during the impeachment trial.
Plaskett, a U.S. Virgin Islands deputy, stopped answering a legal question from senators to show team Trump’s videos of Democrats engaged in hot rhetoric in the past.
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They played “clip after clip” of black women talking about fighting for a cause, issue or policy, “Plaskett told the Senate on Friday. women – black women like me who are tired of being sick and tired in front of our children. ‘
Del. Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat from the United States Virgin Islands.
The Trump team videos that rerun during their presentation included Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. Prominent in attendance, as did Vice President Kamala Harris and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., In an effort to make it clear that Democrats have a history of inflammatory remarks that should be viewed as blameworthy by the new norm they are trying to impose on Trump to suit.
Referring to the Black Lives Matter protests that took place last summer in response to George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, Plaskett suggested that black people speaking out for justice are not the same as Trump’s attempt to instigate a Capitol uprising. to put.
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“Things happened this summer that were violent,” said Plaskett. But there were also things that comforted some of us black women – seeing Amish people from Pennsylvania standing up with us. Members of Congress [standing] with us.
‘I thought we were over that. I think we may not be. ‘
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Democratic impeachment executives argued that Trump’s impeachment is not just for one speech he delivered on Jan. 6, but because he doubted the election for months and then summoned his supporters to Washington to attack the Capitol for counting. vote of the Electoral College for President Biden.