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Politico reports:
Donald Trump’s legal team opened his impeachment defense with a falsehood-laden attempt to sway Republicans to reject the House’s charge that the former president incited the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The presentations on Friday, the first day of opening arguments for the Trump’s defense team, amounted to out-of-context assertions to push back against the House managers’ case that Trump incited the violence that left five people dead. And they said the impeachment article was created out of “hatred” and “vengeance.”
Michael Van der Veen falsely claimed that an “Antifa leader” was among those arrested at the Capitol, even though no identified antifa leaders have been arrested and only one rioter of hundreds brought up on charges has been identified as having potential ties to the left. Van der Veen also falsely said Trump’s first tweets amid the Capitol riots was to call for peace — though his actual first tweet was an attack against Vice President Mike Pence.
Read the full article for more of the lies so far.
Donald Trump’s legal team opened his impeachment defense with a falsehood-laden attempt to sway Republicans to reject the House’s charge that the former president incited the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. https://t.co/VRCXfIMlam
— POLITICO (@politico) February 12, 2021
Trump’s lawyer falsely says “the first two messages” Trump tweeted after the incursion on the Capitol began said “stay peaceful” and “no violence.” No, the first one he tweeted said “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country…”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 12, 2021
Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen: “No thinking person could seriously believe that the president’s January 6th speech on The Ellipse was in any way an incitement to violence or insurrection. The suggestion is patently absurd…”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 12, 2021
Schoen argues that when Twitter users said they were “bringing the calvary” on 1/6, they meant the site of Jesus’s crucifixion, instead of the common misspelling of “cavalry.” Incredible.
— Matt Ford (@fordm) February 12, 2021