“President Trump’s actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty,” McConnell said. McConnell said Trump’s actions were wrong, but said the Senate did not have the right to convict him. 21:26 GMT Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says Trump ‘responsible’ for riot and but says impeachment ‘a narrow tool’ “We have a clear and convincing majority of members of Congress that the president actually incited violent insurrection against the Union and against the Congress,” he said. “This was the most bipartisan presidential impeachment event in the history of the country,” Raskin said during a news conference after the vote. 22:11 GMT Raskin: ‘Most bipartisan presidential impeachment’ in US historyĭespite failing to convict Trump, lead House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin pointed out that a majority of the Congress agreed that he “incited” the Capitol riot. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference with House impeachment managers
“We censure people for using stationery for the wrong purpose, we don’t censure people for inciting insurrection that kills people in the Capitol,” she continued, before leaving the room. “All these cowardly senators who couldn’t face up to what the president did and what was at stake for our country are now going to have a chance to give a little slap on the wrist?” “It lets everybody off the hook,” Pelosi told reporters after the vote. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, upset that Trump was not convicted in the Senate, said she does not support the idea of a congressional censure of the former president, arguing that would be just a “little slap on the wrist”. 22:21 GMT Pelosi opposes censuring Trump: ‘It lets everybody off the hook’ Welcome to Al Jazeera’s coverage of the impeachment trial.
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Trump lawyers and House impeachment managers decided to avoid calling witnesses in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial after earlier voting to do so, a surprise move that would have likely prolonged the process.Trump has been acquitted on a charge of “incitement of insurrection”.
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