The second impeachment: Trump on trial again
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🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today the Senate trial begins: Donald Trump is charged with ‘incitement of insurrection’ over the Capitol riot. After four controversial years in power, the former President's ability to hold office again now hangs in the balance. What should we expect from the trial of the first US president to be impeached twice and where does it leave the Republican party?
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| 0:00.0 | History will be made in America today. Donald Trump will become the first president of the United States to face a Senate trial after being impeached for a second time. |
| 0:14.0 | The absolute core of the case against Trump is that he fomented a rebellion against the United States government during his 70 minutes or so speech to his supporters around lunchtime. |
| 0:29.0 | On January the 6th. |
| 0:31.0 | Will Donald Trump be declared the first American president to incite an insurrection against his own government? |
| 0:38.0 | Donald Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States. |
| 0:52.0 | With Donald Trump's ability to run for office again, hanging in the balance, what can we expect from the trial of the 45th president and where does this impeachment leave the Republican party? |
| 1:04.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times in the Sunday times. I'm Manvian Rana. Today, the second impeachment, Trump on trial again. |
| 1:22.0 | On a clear, crisp morning on January the 6th, tens of thousands of Trump supporters gathered in Washington, D.C. waving flags and chanting for what they called the Save America rally. |
| 1:40.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 45th president of the United States of America. President Donald J. Trump! |
| 1:51.0 | On the day, Trump made a speech that lasted for about 73 minutes. |
| 1:56.0 | The Times US editor David Charter was one of the millions of people who watched on TV as President Donald Trump took to the stage to rally the crowds. |
| 2:07.0 | This was the day the election results would be ratified and Joe Biden would be officially recognized as the next president of the United States. |
| 2:17.0 | And you could hear that the crowds were very worked up and chanting things like, fight for Trump and we love Trump. |
| 2:27.0 | That morning, Vice President Mike Pence had issued a statement making it clear he wouldn't block the confirmation of Joe Biden's victory despite sustained pressure from Donald Trump urging him to do so. |
| 2:42.0 | Against this background, the crowd knew that Mike Pence was not going to overturn the election. All they had left was Donald Trump urging them to fight and never give up. |
| 3:04.0 | That morning, Vice President Mike Pence had issued a statement making it clear he wouldn't block the confirmation of Joe Biden's victory despite sustained pressure from Donald Trump urging him to do so. |
| 3:18.0 | Trump opened his speech in a familiar way. |
| 3:21.0 | The day I will lay out just some of the evidence proving that we won this election and we won it by a landslide. |
| 3:28.0 | This was not a close election. |
| 3:30.0 | Insisting that he'd won the election, insisting in fact that it won by a landslide which was demonstably not true and have been rejected in court case after court case. |
| 3:40.0 | He told his supporters, |
| 3:41.0 | We're going to have to fight much harder and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. |
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