A crime, a motive, a sponsor. On the second day of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Wednesday February 10, Democratic prosecutors detailed their accusations against the former president, implicated in the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6. Occurring only a few minutes after a heated meeting during which he had incited his followers to put pressure on Congress to prevent the certification of the presidential results, this attack is at the origin of this exceptional procedure.
The prosecution was to continue its demonstrations Thursday, before giving the floor to the president’s lawyers. On Wednesday, she devoted herself to the words of the president, well in advance of this tragically historic day, then to his inaction during the most violent hours.
The day before, on the sidelines of their unsuccessful plea which aimed to interrupt a trial deemed unconstitutional (Donald Trump no longer in power), the former president’s lawyers deplored the haste of the Democrats, thundered against the lack of investigation and questioning of witnesses. The prosecutors answered them the next day by opposing them the countless footprints left by the one who is, according to them, the sponsor of the attack, and the evidence of his motive.
A race to the abyss
They set out to describe the mechanism that produced an unprecedented assault launched by citizens of the United States against the beating heart of their democracy, on the same day supposed to symbolize the peaceful transfer of power when an alternation between the two major American parties occurs. .
Donald Trump has helped them tremendously. Dozens of messages posted on Twitter and as many speeches made it possible to reconstruct the trap of a “Big lie”, according to the prosecution, which closed on the president on January 6, at the cost of sacking Congress. This deception is the assertion that only fraud could make him lose the presidential election of November 3, a warning intended for his troops expressed more than six months before the poll.
The prosecution listed the next stages in this race to the abyss. First of all, the court proceedings, futile, for lack of evidence attesting to massive irregularities, in the states which were essential to him but which had come out in favor of his opponent, Democrat Joe Biden. Then the multiple public pressures against officials of these same states responsible for elections. Finally, the ineluctable coup to oppose the law of the street against the law, after weeks of conditioning its followers.
You have 66.56% of this article to read. The rest is for subscribers only.
