You know, I know there's a lot of things going on in the world, but because Trump is not in office,

I actually don't have a good idea of what we're going to talk about today. So please tell me what we're going to talk about.

Well, we are actually going to talk a bit more about Trump because the shadow seems to linger here, but I thought you and I would talk about that subject of deplatforming.

Oh, okay, well, that's interesting.

All right. So on Tuesday, February 9, Trump's second impeachment trial began. The Senate first decided in a 56 to 44 vote that a former president can, in fact, stand trial for impeachment, even after having left office.

And that trial moved very quickly. House impeachment managers who serve as the prosecution team showed us some dramatic images and videos of what happened on January 6,

when Trump supporters attacked the Capitol and delayed Congress's certification of the election.

Remember, there was just one single charge or article of impeachment against Trump, and that was for inciting an insurrection.

Representative Jamie Raskin was the lead manager, and in his closing argument, he said,

it's now clear beyond doubt that Trump supported the actions of the mob, and so he must be convicted. It's that simple. He was not the trial ended on Saturday, February 13th.

Now, a majority of the Senate did vote to convict Trump, including seven Republican senators, but the 57 to 43 vote fell short of what the Constitution requires, and that's a 2-thirds majority.

The EAs are 57. The NAs are 43.

2-thirds of the Senate is present not having 40 guilty. The Senate judges that the respondent Donald John Trump, former President of the United States, is not guilty, has charged the article of impeachment.

Now, Trump was acquitted of that single charge of inciting the Capitol attack on January 6, and because of the acquittal, the Senate never held a vote on disqualifying Trump from office.

So he's free to run for President in 2024.

Trump's the first president to be impeached twice, and the first to be tried after leaving office, and for that, he makes history.

But I'd like us to return to the riot at the Capitol just one more time for a different perspective, to look at the link between what happened in Washington and what happened online.

So you ready?

I'm ready. Let's do it.

So remember that many of the rioters came directly from President Trump's Save America rally that began that morning on the ellipse.

That's the park near the White House.

And Trump had addressed the crowd with some fiery language, but it was elsewhere that really mattered. For weeks and really for months, Trump had been on social media, especially on Twitter and Facebook, with false claims that there had been election fraud, and that he, not Biden, had won the election.

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