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Bar Trump From Holding Office Again, Impeachment Managers Tell US Senate

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Feb 12, 2021.

Bar Trump From Holding Office Again, Impeachment Managers Tell US Senate

Trump has been labelled “inviter-in-chief” as new videos of the attack emerge during his impeachment trial
The January 6 attack on the Capitol claimed 5 lives including a Capitol Police officer

Donald Trump should be barred from ever holding office again, impeachment prosecutors said Thursday, as they urged the Senate to convict the former president for inciting the violent January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

President Joe Biden said the case against his 74-year-old predecessor presented by the House impeachment managers at the Senate trial may change “some minds.”

Despite Biden’s assessment, there were no indications that the House prosecutors were close to assembling the votes of 17 Republican Senators needed for conviction.

The Democratic-majority House of Representatives impeached Trump on January 13 for inciting the attack on the Capitol, but a two-thirds majority is needed for conviction in the 100-member Senate, where Democrats hold 50 seats.

The mayhem left five people dead, including one woman shot after she invaded the Capitol and one policeman killed by the crowd of Trump supporters who were seeking to stop certification of Biden’s November 3 election victory.

Representative Jamie Raskin, the lead impeachment manager, presented evidence on Thursday of Trump’s encouragement of violence in the past using videos of the former president’s own words.

“This pro-Trump insurrection did not spring out of thin air,” Raskin said. “This was not the first time Donald Trump had inflamed and incited a mob.

Raskin said it was imperative that the Senate convict Trump and bar him from running for the White House again in 2024.

“Is there any political leader in this room who believes that if he’s ever allowed by the Senate to get back into the Oval Office Donald Trump would stop inciting violence to get his way?” Raskin asked. “Would you bet the future of your democracy on that?

“Trump declared his conduct ‘totally appropriate,’” Raskin said. “So if he gets back into office and it happens again we’ll have no one to blame but ourselves.”

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