Trump incited Capitol riot further after it began, impeachment prosecutors will claim

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Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial will present new evidence, and will show that he spent weeks laying the groundwork for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and that he also „incited it further“ once the violence began, senior aides said Tuesday.

„The evidence of Trump’s guilt in this case is overwhelming,“ aides to the House impeachment managers told reporters, hours before the impeachment trial was set to kick off in the Senate.

Aides said it is possible that after hearing what they called a devastating case,“ Republican senators will decide to vote to convict Trump and bar him from holding the presidency ever again.

„Once they see that this President did in fact incite a violent insurrection in order to hold onto power, I think it very well may be the case that reluctant senators change their mind and vote to convict,“ aides said.

But those aides would not give any details of that new evidence against Trump.

„Stay tuned,“ they said.

For Trump to be convicted, at least 17 Republican senators will have to join the Senate’s 48 Democrats and two independents in finding Trump guilty.

That appears unlikely, at least for now, because 45 Republicans previously voted in favor of the argument that an impeachment trial against a former president such as Trump is barred under the law.



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