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At least a dozen Republican Senators reportedly walked out of the Senate impeachment trial on Thursday, after lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) tried to argue that years of Trump rallies were incitement to violence.

The House impeachment managers could not prove incitement — the central charge in the Article of Impeachment. Then-President Donald Trump told supporters to protest “peacefully and patriotically.” No court could convict him on the facts.

The Democrats then made their case in the impeachment trial. Here are the main points — the highlights, and the lowlights — thus far.

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) used the infamous Charlottesville “very fine people” hoax to argue that the Senate had to convict former President Donald Trump to prevent him from running for office ever again.

Democrats argued Wednesday that the Capitol riot was not the result of “one speech,” despite the fact that the article of impeachment passed by the House of Representatives last month claimed that President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 incited it.

Twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sent a warning to Republican senators ahead of the first day of arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump concluding that they — the jurors — will prove that they are “his co-conspirators” if they do not ultimately side with Democrats and convict him.

Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) raised a pointed question about the deceptively edited video House impeachment managers played during the first day of the Senate impeachment trial, pointing to page 34 of House Rules, which focuses on “dissemination by electronic means, including by social media, of any image, video, or audio file that has been distorted or manipulated with the intent to mislead the public.”

Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz appeared on Newsmax TV to discuss former President Donald Trump’s impeachment hearings, specifically criticizing Trump attorney Bruce Castor’s defense of the former president.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) was seemingly emotional — appearing to almost cry — while he recalled being with his youngest daughter Tabitha at the Capitol on January 6 as he presented arguments supporting the Democrat-led push to impeach former President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

House Democrats rallied on social media after House impeachment managers kicked off the first day of the Senate impeachment trial with a montage of cherry-picked footage from the January 6 Capitol protest and concluded that former President Trump must be barred from running for office ever again.

Several members of the media took to Twitter to express outrage over the House Democrats’ selectively edited impeachment trial video.

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who objected to the certification of 2017 election results, and promised to impeach President Donald Trump as soon as he took office, argued Tuesday that is is constitutional to impeach a former president.

The first day of the Senate impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump begins Tuesday afternoon as Democrats hope to build an emotional case tying the former president directly to the January 6 Capitol riot. The end goal, as they have said, is a conviction in the Senate and permanent disqualification from ever running for office again.

“Let us stop pouring salt in the wounds of America for no reason at all.” – Jamie Raskin, Lead House impeachment manager, January 7.

Democrats reiterated Monday a threat to punish former President Donald Trump for not testifying at the impeachment trial in the Senate, which begins Tuesday.

Friday on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz explained why some of the tactics used by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), one of the House managers in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings, were not grounded in a constitutional basis, and were “political theater,” as he put it.

House Democrats have requested that former President Donald Trump testify under oath for his Senate impeachment trial, according to a letter sent to Trump from House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).

Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Monday on MSNBC’s “All In” that the point of impeachment was to “protect the Republic” from former President Donald Trump and prevent him from holding federal office in the future.

Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the riot on January 6 at the Capitol was the “most serious presidential crime in the history of the United States of America.”

Lead impeachment manager, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), fought the certification of electoral votes from Florida in 2017.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) on Monday introduced a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to enact the 25th Amendment, mobilizing the Cabinet and ultimately removing President Trump from office.

House Democrats have prepared Articles of Impeachment, asserting that President Trump is a “threat to national security, democracy, and the Constitution.”

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) reacted to the 25th Amendment commission legislation proposed by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) by stating that it is a good thing for

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) will introduce legislation on Friday to create a commission to evaluate the president for removal from office under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.

Sunday on MSNBC, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said the Republican Party has become a “religious cult” of President Donald Trump.

Jordan asked fellow committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) why his wife, a former Treasury Department official, unmasked Michael Flynn.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday claimed Jesus Christ would be “maligned” and rejected by Congress as a “radical” due to teachings.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday scored an endorsement from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who served as a major proponent for the Democrats’ impeachment effort in the House.

House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (D-MA) said Tuesday during a hearing that if Democrats do not impeach President Donald Trump, then the country will move towards an authoritarian country.

On Thursday’s “CNN Tonight,” House Judiciary Committee member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) stated that there is suspicion that Republicans had a “strategy to try to drag us into the middle of the night so they could say, the Judiciary Committee did

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Live,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) called President Donald Trump a “one-man crime wave.” Raskin said, “So if you look being at House Resolution 660 which structures this phase of the impeachment investigation, the Foreign Affairs Committee

On Monday’s “PBS NewsHour,” House Judiciary Committee member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) stated that the transcripts of depositions in the impeachment inquiry will be released “on a daily basis over the coming week.” Raskin said, “Well, we want to see all

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Judiciary Committee member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) stated that “it looks like everything is headed” in the direction of the Judiciary Committee developing articles of impeachment. Raskin said, “So, essentially, the Intelligence Committee,

While speaking to reporters on Saturday, Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) stated that Democrats will make evidence in the impeachment inquiry available to the public “at the right time,” if it is legally possible to do so. Raskin said, “It is

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Live,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said the whistleblower would not need to testify.

The State Department inspector general provided documents Wednesday supporting accusations of Ukraine-linked wrongdoing from Joe Biden and his son.