In a brief filed Tuesday, the House impeachment managers revealed how they intend to get Trump convicted in the impeachment trial.
They are going to claim that Trump pointed a mob “like a loaded cannon” at the Capitol before the January 6 riot, and that he was “delighted” as the Capitol was overrun.
“He summoned a mob to Washington, exhorted them into a frenzy, and aimed them like a loaded cannon down Pennsylvania Avenue. As the Capitol was overrun, President Trump was reportedly ‘delighted,'” they stated.
Furthermore, they intend on arguing that Trump is “singularly responsible” for the Capitol riot.
The nine House impeachment managers filed the 80-page brief in an effort to convince the Senate to convict Trump.
More on the brief from The Daily Wire:
“President Trump may assert that this impeachment reflects ‘cancel culture’ or some supposed intolerance of his right to voice objections to the election results. That would be a red herring. President Trump endangered the very constitutional system that protects all other rights, including freedom of expression,” the brief says. “It would be perverse to suggest that our shared commitment to free speech requires the Senate to ignore the obvious: that President Trump is singularly responsible for the violence and destruction that unfolded in our seat of government on January 6.”
What will come next is difficult to say, but a number of Senate Republicans have already signaled they do not intend to convict Trump because he is no longer President.
The brief was filed just several days after Trump parted ways with his original legal team, and then hired new lawyers.
In order for Trump to actually be convicted, 17 Republicans would need to join the Senate’s 50 Democrats in voting to convict him.
Trump is only the third U.S. President to be impeached, however he is the first to ever face a trial after leaving the White House.
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