“I think you can count on that,” said Castor. “If my eyes look a little red to viewers, it’s because I have been watching a lot of videos.”
At the beginning of the segment with Ingraham, Castor claimed “there are many tapes of cities on fire and courts being attacked and federal agents being attacked by rioters on the streets, applauded by Democrats across the country,” apparently referring to the ongoing protests in Portland, Ore.
Trump repeatedly pressed against racial justice protests across the country last year, in particular criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement.
Portland saw more than 100 days of protest around a federal court after the police’s assassination of George Floyd in May. Trump misleadingly blamed violence in the city on the far left while minimizing the role of far-right groups.
Castor, who will defend Trump alongside attorney David Schoen, continued: “Many of them in Washington are using the most inflammatory rhetoric possible. And there would certainly be no suggestion that they did anything to incite any of the actions. “
“But here, when you have the President of the United States giving a speech and saying that you should peacefully make your thinking known to the people in Congress, he is suddenly a villain. You better be careful what you want, ”he continued.
House impeachment administrators argued that Trump’s speech to the Capitol on January 6 “predictably resulted” in the riots, specifically pointing to Trump saying that “if you don’t fight like hell, you won’t have a country anymore”.
Rep. Waters (D-Calif.) In 2018 convened supporters at a rally to confront Trump officials in public to protest the Trump administration’s child separation policy, which many Republicans have pointed out in defense of Trump.
Any move to use the Democrats’ words against them may not take center stage, however. Castor told Ingraham that the “main issue” will be the argument that the Senate cannot accuse Trump because he is no longer in office. Most Senate Republicans voted last week in favor of a motion saying the Senate trial was unconstitutional because Trump is no longer president.
“By the logic of the House’s impeachment resolution, they can go back and impeach Abraham Lincoln,” Castor told Ingraham. “They could accuse Donald Trump if he was dead because he is not in office.”
Republican senators asked Trump not to focus about false allegations about the election in their defense. But in a nutshell, Trump’s legal team denied that Trump tried to subvert the election results and said that Trump had the First Amendment’s right to give his opinion on them. Castor told Fox on Friday that there were many “incorrect statements” about the report’s allegations, which argue that Trump’s claims that he won “in a landslide” were not false.
“I don’t need to prove that he was accurate,” said Castor. “All I have to say is that you prove that they were fake.”
Castor and Schoen were not originally on Trump’s defense team, as the first Trump team left after disagreeing on whether to enter Trump’s claims in the elections. A Trump spokesman said earlier that “he will not testify in an unconstitutional case”.