Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial Gets Underway: Live Updates

Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, speaks during the Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate Chamber on Tuesday. Photo: Screencap/Bloomberg via Getty Images Former president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial over inciting the January 6 Capitol riot has begun. The trial represents multiple firsts in American history: No U.S. president has ever been impeached more than once; Trump will be the first president to ever face an impeachment trial after leaving office; and the jury will be comprised of victims. Trump’s newest legal team, meanwhile, is expected to argue that the timing of the trial is unconstitutional, as well as defend Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on free-speech grounds. Regardless, few if anyone expects Trump to actually be convicted, at least unless a shocking number of Republican senators change their plans after having already voted to dismiss the trial in the first place. But House Democrats plan to make their case anyway, to the public as much as to the Senate, and prove that Trump and his false stolen-election claims were instrumental to the deadly attack on Congress. Below, in reverse chronological order, are the latest updates on the trial as it plays out. ED KILGORE: Bruce Castor is up first… Read full this story

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