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Impeachment Manager: Trump Watched Storming of Capitol on TV

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - The lead Democratic impeachment manager on Sunday accused
   President Donald Trump of doing nothing on January 6 to stop his
   supporters from storming the U.S. Capitol to try to upend his defeat
   for reelection.

   "He was watching it on TV, an insurrection tailgate party," Congressman
   Jamie Raskin told CNN.

   No date has been set for Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate on a
   single charge that he incited insurrection by urging thousands of his
   supporters to fight to overturn his loss to President-elect Joe Biden,
   who is set to be inaugurated at noon Wednesday.

   Protesters rampaged past authorities into the Capitol building,
   ransacked some lawmakers' offices and scuffled with police, mayhem that
   left five people dead, including one police officer whose death is
   being investigated as a homicide.

   Trump, after several hours of chaos in the Capitol building, urged his
   supporters to "go home," but added, "We love you, you're very special."
   Trump has defended his actions and statements leading up to the attack
   on the Capitol, saying his speech at the rally before the attack was
   "totally appropriate."
   Trump castigated what he called "the impeachment hoax" as the
   "continuation of the greatest and most vicious witch hunt" in U.S.
   history.

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