With Video From The Insurrection And Strong Words, Neguse And Degette Make The Case For Trump's Impeachment - Colorado Public Radio

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A very visceral reaction.  

That’s what Rep. Joe Neguse said he expected from Senators when impeachment managers presented their case. And that’s exactly what they got.

Using new footage from security cameras and body cameras, alongside social media posts and police radio dispatches, the impeachment managers created a coherent, detailed and damning timeline of the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.

They showed how close rioters came to potentially harming the government’s line of succession — threatening the second (Vice President Mike Pence), third (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was taken out of the Capitol Complex) and fourth (Senate President Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley) positions after the president, as well as other leaders and senators. 

“I think that the House Managers are making a very strong case for a timeline that laid out very clearly, the words that were used, when [Trump] used them, how he used [them] to really build the anger, the violence that we saw here in this Capitol,” said Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski after the first day.

Neguse draws a line from Trumps’ rallying words to his supporters’ actions

Neguse kicked off the case by laying out a roadmap: the provocation, the attack and the harm.

“Senators, this clearly was not just one speech. It didn't just happen. It was part of a carefully planned, months-long effort with a very specific instruction: show up on Jan. 6, and get your people to fight the certification,” Neguse said. “[Former President Donald Trump] incited it. It was foreseeable.” 

The provocation included the months-long drumbeat of claims about fraud and a stolen election that Trump began long before Election Day. What Neguse called "the big lie."

Neguse tried to connect the dots, from Trump’s words to the actions of his supporters. He used their own words, lifted from affidavits and criminal complaints, saying those who stormed the Capitol believed it was what Trump wanted. 

“You heard it from them. They were doing what he wanted them to do. They wouldn’t have listened to you, to me, to the Vice President of the United States, who they were attacking. They didn't stop in the face of law enforcement,” Neguse said looking at the Republican side of the chamber. “They were following the President. He alone, our Commander in Chief, had the power to stop them. And he didn’t.”

Neguse went on to ask what would have happened if Trump asked the rioters to stop and leave peacefully half as forcefully as he cried “fraud” and “stop the steal.”

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