Bruce Castor, former President Donald Trump‘s lead impeachment defense attorney, said he will show video clips of top Democrats themselves making incitement to violence during the upcoming impeachment trial.
Castor said the defense team will stick to the strategy outlined in their brief to the Senate on Tuesday (Feb. 2).
In their brief, Trump’s defense team argued that “the Constitution requires impeachment against the person who actually holds office” and that Trump exercised his First Amendment right to free speech by challenging the results of the November election.
The lawyers argued that the impeachment against Trump itself violates the Constitution because Trump no longer holds any public office after leaving the White House on Jan. 20.
Casto also revealed that the defense team will show video clips of some top Democrats’ own comments inciting violence during the impeachment trial. The Senate impeachment trial is set to begin next week.
I think you’re going to see this,” he told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. If viewers think my eyes are a little red, it’s because I’ve watched a lot of video over the last few days.”
Casto noted that when rioters burned cities and attacked federal law enforcement officers after George Floyd’s death last summer, he noted, some Democrats across the United States cheered it.
“Many Democrats in Washington (at the Time) did make extremely inflammatory statements,” he said. “But here, when the president of the United States makes a speech and says, ‘You should peacefully let the people of Congress know what you think,’ he suddenly turns into a villain. So you better be careful when you make a wish.”
In the Jan. 6 speech, Trump told his supporters, “I know that everyone here will soon be walking to the Capitol to make their voices heard in a peaceful, patriotic way.” This speech by Trump later became the focus of Democrats’ efforts to impeach him.
It is unclear which Democrats’ incitement to violence comments will be cited by the Trump team during the impeachment trial.
During the “Black Lives Matter” protests, Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-CA) publicly called for “street unrest.”
She said in an interview on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” that “call, email and show up,” and that “as long as there’s unrest in our lives, there needs to be unrest in the streets. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of that (unrest) around.”
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