Mr. Castor, unhearingly echoes his client, ex-president Trump, who declared after the

insurrection that his conduct in the affair was totally appropriate.

And therefore, we can only assume he could do and would do the exact same thing again,

because he said his conduct was totally appropriate.

So, now the factual warning begins, just moments ago, begins the presentation

of the actual impeachment trial now of Donald Trump yesterday.

They voted it was constitutional today.

They make their presentation. Here is Congressman Rass.

And so the Senate is now properly exercising its jurisdiction and sitting as a court of

impeachment conducting a trial on the facts. We are having a trial on the facts.

The House says ex-president Donald Trump

incited a violent insurrection against Congress and the Constitution and the people.

The president's lawyers and the president say his conduct was totally appropriate,

and he's essentially an innocent victim of circumstances,

like the other innocent victims that we'll see getting caught up in all of the violence in chaos

over the next several days. The evidence will be for you to see and hear in digest.

The evidence will show you that ex-president Trump was no innocent bystander.

The evidence will show that he clearly incited the January 6th insurrection.

He will show that Donald Trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the

insider in chief of a dangerous insurrection. And this was, as one of our colleagues put

it so cogently on January 6th itself, the greatest betrayal of the presidential oath in the history

of the United States. The evidence will show you that he saw it coming and was not remotely

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