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Lawyers for Donald Trump have wrapped up their defense in the former US president's impeachment trial, denying that Trump played any part in inciting the Capitol Hill riots last month. The defense team took just three hours to make their case and called the trial a political witch hunt. The Senate will reconvene on Saturday morning when members are expected to vote on whether to convict Trump.
Day four of a trial which has an all but guaranteed outcome... yet its participants push on..
It was time for Donald Trump's legal team to make their defense and lay out why the former president shouldn't be convicted.
Their argument focused on freedom of speech, insisting Trump was exercising his First Amendment rights when casting doubt on the election results.
The defense also showed a 10 minute video of democrats using the word "fight" to argue that Trump's words of "fight like hell" on January 6 did not incite the rioters who attacked the Capitol afterward.
The defense team's statements followed two days of arguments by Democrat prosecutors who said Trump set the stage for the violence of January 6.
They said he summoned the crowd to Washington and did nothing to stop the rioting... even as it played out on television.
The Democrats are unlikely to gain a conviction, as few Republican senators have come out against Trump, who remains popular among Republican voters.
Both parties are eager to move to a final vote, which could come as soon as Saturday.
But all signs point to it ending as a partisan draw and a second acquittal for Donald Trump.


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