Thread by @RiegerReport

BREAKING

In bipartisan rebuke, House members vote to impeach Trump an unprecedented second time, on charge of ‘inciting violence’

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The House Republicans who impeached Trump after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol

1) John Katko
2) Liz Cheney
3) Adam Kinzinger
4) Fred Upton
5) Jaime Herrera Beutler
6) Dan Newhouse
7) Peter Meijer
8) Anthony Gonzalez
9) Tom Rice
10) David Valadao

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"Trump has entertained the idea of creating a third party…Multiple people in Trump’s orbit…say Trump has told people the third party threat gives him leverage to prevent Republican senators from voting to convict him during the Senate impeachment trial.” washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…

"The 10 House Republicans who voted for impeachment are already facing a fleet of primary challengers, censures and other rebukes from their hometown Republican Party organizations” nytimes.com/2021/01/23/us/…

WaPo confirms CNN scoop:

Sen. Leahy expected to preside over Trump’s second impeachment trial

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Trump’s lawyers say he was immediately “horrified” by the Capitol attack.

Multiple people in contact with Trump that day say he was initially pleased to see a halt in the electoral college count and that he reluctantly issued calls for peace.

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Lead House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin after playing a 13-minute video montage of the Jan 6 attack:

“You ask what a high crime and misdemeanor is under our Constitution: That’s a high crime and misdemeanor. If that’s not an impeachable offense, then there is no such thing."

Constitutional expert quoted by Trump’s lawyers says his views are ‘misrepresented’ washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

As House impeachment managers played a video of the Capitol riot during the impeachment trial, Republican senators including Rand Paul, Rick Scott, Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio turned away and instead looked at papers on their desks. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

Watch the full 13-minute video that House impeachment managers played to open the Senate impeachment trial: washingtonpost.com/video/politics…

RASKIN: “Senators, this cannot be our future. This cannot be the future of America. We cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government … because they refuse to accept the will of the people under the Constitution of the United States."

Evidence from Trump’s second impeachment trial washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…

Former president Donald Trump’s lawyer Bruce Castor:

"We are really here because the majority in the House of Representatives does not want to face Donald Trump as a political rival in the future. … the American people just spoke and they just changed administrations."

Divided Senate votes to proceed with impeachment trial of Trump, rejecting his lawyers’ argument that it is unconstitutional washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

NEGUSE: “Some have said President Trump’s remarks, his speech on Jan 6, was just a speech…let me ask you this: When in our history has a speech led thousands of people to storm our nation’s Capitol with weapons, to scale the walls, break windows, kill a Capitol police officer?"

TED LIEU: “The president wasn’t just coming for one or two people or Democrats like me. He was coming for you, for Democratic and Republican senators. He was coming for all of us, just as the mob did at his direction."

Plaskett argues Trump deliberately encouraged supporters’ violence washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

Previously unreleased security camera footage shows Vice President Pence and his family evacuated from the Senate chamber on Jan. 6 as rioters breached the Capitol.

https://twitter.com/RiegerReport/status/1359617418910437376

Previously unreleased security camera footage shows Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) running away from the Capitol mob with his security detail on Jan. 6 before Capitol Police officers barricade a door.

Stacey Plaskett’s full 40-minute presentation of previously unreleased Capitol riot footage washingtonpost.com/video/politics…

TED LIEU: “You know, I’m not afraid of Donald Trump running again in four years. I’m afraid he’s going to run again and lose, cause he can do this again."

JOE NEGUSE on Trump’s defense:

“Their argument is wrong on the facts, wrong on the law and would flip the Constitution upside down."

RASKIN: “The whole First Amendment smokescreen is a completely irrelevant distraction from the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors governing a president who has violated his oath of office. Yet, President Trump … has a good way of treating up is down and wrong is right."

RASKIN: “What is impeachable conduct, if not this? I challenge you all to think about it. If you think this is not impeachable, what is? What would be? … If you don’t find this a high crime and misdemeanor today, you have set a new terrible standard for presidential misconduct"

JOE NEGUSE: “We humbly, humbly ask you to convict President Trump for the crime for which he is overwhelmingly guilty of. Because if you don’t, if we pretend this didn’t happen, or worse, if we let it go unanswered, who’s to say it won’t happen again?"

Trump’s Jan. 6 tweet about Pence came 11 minutes after live coverage showed Pence being evacuated.

Trump was watching that coverage and the White House is typically immediately informed by Secret Service when Pence is evacuated.

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https://twitter.com/RiegerReport/status/1359691364653539328

Mounting evidence suggests Trump knew of danger to Pence when he attacked him as lacking ‘courage’ amid Capitol siege washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…

BRUCE CASTOR: “They continue to say 'insurrection.’ Clearly there was no insurrection. Insurrection is a term of art, it’s defined in the law. It involves taking over a country, a shadow government, taking the TV stations over and having some plan … Clearly this is not that."

BRUCE CASTOR: “This trial … is about silencing and banning the speech the majority does not agree with. It is about cancelling 75 million Trump voters and criminalizing political viewpoints. … It asks for constitutional cancel culture to take over in the United States Senate."

Trump attorney Michael van der Veen dodges when asked by Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski about when Trump learned of the breach, what actions he took and when did he take them:

“The House managers have given us absolutely no evidence one way or the other onto that question."

Trump attorney Michael van der Veen responding to a question from Mitt Romney and Susan Collins:

“At no point was the president informed the vice president was in any danger.”

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RASKIN: "This is about preserving the republic, dear Senate. …Setting standards of conduct for the president…rather than…screaming about how we didn’t have time to get all of the facts about what your client did, bring your client up here and have him testify under oath"

NEW

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) says while the Capitol attack was underway, Kevin McCarthy called President Trump to call off his supporters.

Trump responded:

"Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.”

cnn.com/2021/02/12/pol…

NEW

Following the CNN report, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) releases a new statement confirming the CNN report and also noting that she had publicly stated the details of the Jan. 6 Trump-McCarthy call numerous times in recent weeks.

https://twitter.com/HerreraBeutler/status/1360419828721401856

JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER: “To the patriots who were standing next to the former president as these conversations were happening, or even to the former vice president: if you have something to add here, now would be the time."

NEW via @PostRoz:

Donald Trump’s call with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) came two minutes after Trump’s 2:24pm tweet about Mike Pence on Jan. 6.

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https://twitter.com/postroz/status/1360420467333545986