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More video from Trump’s legal team, as the defense ticks past the one hour mark.
This video shows clips from Black Lives Matter protests over the summer. It’s another attempt to compare protests against racism to a bunch of Trump supporters smashing their way into the US Capitol and threatening to kill politicians.
A reminder that Schoen was on Fox News this week where he said that only Trump had a base that would actually be riled up by language about fighting! https://t.co/Jk3fl16wUe
Schoen has made serious accusations of fraud and deceit against the House Impeachment Managers.
He better have receipts, because what he has shown thus far is not even close.
Just after Schoen accused Managers of “manipulating” evidence because they took excerpts of videos, he shows a lengthy video of numerous, extremely spliced video clips without any context for the comments.
Trump’s legal team has played another video. The video, like one earlier, shows a number of Democrats using the word “fight” during political interviews and at rallies.
A key difference is that none of the Democrats used the word fight as they amped up their supporters then urged them to march to the US Capitol, where the result of a presidential election was about to be formalized.
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