U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) refutes the prosecution’s allegations during a Senate meeting on February 10 to impeach Trump.
The U.S. Senate initiated the impeachment of former President Trump, but much of the “evidence” presented by Democratic impeachment managers was uncorroborated “media information. The senator mentioned in one of the reports alleged in court that the story was inaccurate, and another Twitter user quoted claimed that his screenshot of the tweet had been altered.
Democratic House members impeaching Trump for “inciting a congressional riot” began presenting evidence in court on the Senate floor Wednesday (Feb. 10). Democratic impeachment managers released multiple videos from inside Congress showing the disruptions and tensions in the Capitol on Jan. 6, but did not provide new credible evidence of “Trump inciting a riot.
In accusing Trump of “manipulating the riot,” the impeachment managers repeatedly cited “anonymous sources” from the media, including the New York Times, which reported that “Trump initially rejected a request to mobilize the National Guard The New York Times reported that “Trump initially rejected a request to mobilize the National Guard” and The Independent reported that “Trump’s social media operations group would never have been unaware of plans to attack the Capitol that were circulating online.
David Cicilline, one of the impeachment managers, quoted media sources as saying that on the night of Jan. 6, Trump called Republican Senator Mike Lee, who at the Time he thought was with another senator, Tommy Tuberville. During the call, Trump did not mention the riots that afternoon, but asked Tuberville to “further oppose” the certification of the election results in order to delay the end.
As Cecilini concluded his remarks, Senator Lee stood up in court and asked the Democrats to withdraw the allegations that included him as an example. Lee said, “The statement involving the content of the conversation between Trump and Senator Tuberville on the phone, I did not say that, and that statement was not accurate.”
Lee then filed a motion to dismiss the allegations regarding the so-called “Trump phone call. The impeachment manager admitted that the information came from “a newspaper”, agreed to withdraw the accusation, and said the matter could be “resolved” in Thursday’s Senate trial.
Earlier, Lee told the media in response to reports of a “Trump phone call” that Trump had only tried to contact Tuberville during the storming of the Capitol, but dialed Lee’s number by mistake.
During Senate testimony, another impeachment manager, Eric Swalwell, showed an enthusiastic Twitter interaction between Trump and a supporter, Jennifer Lynn Lawrence, as evidence that Trump had “incited a riot. Swalwell was involved in a scandal involving Fang Fang, a female Communist spy.
However, the Lawrence tweets that Swalwell showed only expressed strong support for Trump and did not mention anything about “violent attacks.
On the same day Swalwell showed the tweets, Lawrence himself tweeted, accusing Swalwell of falsifying the screenshots of the tweets he showed.
In the tweet, Lawrence said, “My account was never authenticated by Twitter, so why are my tweets being used in unsubstantiated impeachments with the icon of an authenticated account? I suspect it was faked by the Democrats, as they faked the entire impeachment.”
At the end of the tweet, Lawrence shouted directly at Swalwell’s Twitter account, “Swalwell, why did you add the authentication icon to my account in the presentation?”
The Twitter authentication icon is the blue check mark to the right of a user’s account name, indicating that Twitter has authenticated the user’s true identity. Most of Twitter’s authenticated accounts are celebrities. It is generally believed that messages posted by authenticated accounts have a higher level of credibility than regular accounts.
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