Trump faces Senate Court of Impeachment today
Former US President Donald Trump's team has submitted his legal defense ahead of the Senate Court of Impeachment.
Trump, who will become the first US president to face two impeachment trials, faces his second impeachment trial on Tuesday.
Last month, Trump was impeached for his role in inciting insurrection leading to the deadly January 6 attack on Capitol Hill.
He told his supporters in a speech on that day, “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
Trump loyalists responded shouting "fight for Trump" as they smashed their way into the Capitol, which houses the Congress.
Trump's legal team laid out their first extended 78-page impeachment defense on Monday, arguing that the Senate Court of Impeachment was unconstitutional, politically motivated, an infringement of free speech rights, and merely “political theater”, adding that the Senate had no power to sit in judgment of a former president.
Senate “lacks jurisdiction” to try a former president because, by definition, he cannot be removed, the lawyers argued in the defense, claiming Trump did not “direct anyone to commit unlawful actions” or deserve blame for the conduct of what they called a “small group of criminals” who stormed into the Capitol building.
The lawyers said in Trump's defense that the former president’s claims of a stolen election, that were delivered at the rally outside the White House before the pro-Trump loyalists staged the attack, were protected by the First Amendment.
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