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12 Feb, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Day 4 of Trump’s impeachment trial is underway. The focus is on his defense team, who will present their arguments today.

Follow along with Insider’s live coverage here. 👇
ICYMI: Here’s a recap of day 3:
Donald Trump's lawyer David Schoen claimed on Friday that House impeachment managers may have manipulated parts of their presentation against the former president this week, yet the evidence he pointed to was never used in their case.

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Schoen specifically accused the Democratic managers of having "created false representation of tweets."

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Schoen displayed a photo in a @nytimes article of @RepRaskin looking at two tweets dated January 3, 2020 on a computer screen. But the House impeachment managers never presented the doctored tweets at the trial, which Schoen himself noted.

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Democrats laughed and rolled their eyes during Trump's impeachment trial today as his defense lawyers played clips of Democrats saying the word "fight" in a lengthy video montage.

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You can watch the full montage here:

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Here are the key takeaways of Day 4.

Up next, US senators who are acting as jurors in the trial will get four hours to ask both sides — Trump's attorneys and the nine House impeachment managers who are prosecutors in the trial — questions.

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