Former President Donald Trump’s impeachment advocacy team displayed more than nine minutes of footage on Friday showing Democrats using the word “fight”, trying to refute the House impeachment managers’ accusation that Trump incited the Capitol on January 6.
The long compilation of Democrats using the word – which contained many clips with little or no context – came after Trump’s lawyer David Schoen accused impeachment managers of selectively editing Trump’s words. Some of the Democrats shown were senators serving as jurors at the impeachment trial, including Chuck Schumer from New York, Cory Booker from New Jersey, Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts, Raphael Warnock from Georgia and Kirsten Gillibrand from New York, among others.
Administrators of the House’s impeachment pointed to Trump’s own words before the January 6 uprising, when he said supporters would lose the country if they didn’t “fight like hell”. Democrats also argued that Trump’s speech was the culmination of a month-long effort to subvert election results.