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In opening remarks Tuesday, lawyer Bruce Castor said: “The American people just spoke, and they just changed administrations.” He added that Americans are 'smart enough to pick a new administration if they don’t like the old one, and they just did.”

#HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGER RASKIN TRIAL#

One of the lawyers heading former President Donald Trump’s defense at his second impeachment trial did what Trump himself has not: conceded Joe Biden won the presidential election. We will be scholarly later,” Castor said. “I was not trying to be scholarly, just informative. It was a unanimous decision on our side for me to try to do so,” Castor added. He declined to comment directly on the widespread criticism of his remarks.Ĭastor also said his goal was to “lower the temperature” and believed he was successful. “I suggested at the break that I try to bring the room back from the ‘horrors’ the Ds tried to show that did not pertain to jurisdiction.

In response to questions about Tuesday’s change in strategy, Castor told NBC News that his game-time decision to alter the plan was “not that complicated” and argued that he didn’t want to let Schoen follow the House impeachment managers’ case with a “dry” legal argument. Trump, who watched and fumed from his Mar-a-Lago club, is expecting a more compelling appearance from the defense later in the week, one source said. He was especially disappointed with Bruce Castor’s meandering performance and wasn’t completely sold on David Schoen either, the sources said. Monica Alba, Hallie Jackson and Kristen Welkerįormer President Donald Trump is extremely displeased about his legal team’s first showing at the Senate impeachment trial, according to three sources familiar with his thinking. The video 'shows a view of the Capitol that is quite extraordinary and a view of the attack that has never been public before,' the aides added in previewing the team's approach for the second day of Trump's second impeachment trial. We will be tying the evidence all together in a compelling case that will make it clear for everyone - Democrats, Republicans, everyone - that Donald Trump committed the most heinous constitutional crime possible.' We have the goods, we will be presenting the goods. 'Yesterday was our dry constitutional argument day. The Capitol security footage 'will provide new insight into both the extreme violence that everyone saw, the risk and the threat that it could have led to further violence and death to many but for the brave actions of the officers and shows really the extent of what Donald Trump unleashed on our Capitol,' the aides to the impeachment managers told reporters.

Democratic House impeachment managers will unveil 'never-seen-before' video of the deadly Capitol riot during their opening arguments Wednesday as part of the case they're building against former President Donald Trump, senior aides said.

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