{"id":121103,"date":"2021-02-08T14:52:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T19:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121103"},"modified":"2021-02-08T15:12:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:12:40","slug":"trumps-defense-team-will-show-clips-of-democrats-urging-violence-in-2020-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-defense-team-will-show-clips-of-democrats-urging-violence-in-2020-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Defense Team Will Show Clips Of Democrats Urging Violence In 2020: Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-defense-team-will-show-clips-of-democrats-urging-violence-in-2020-senator%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121103&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/paul-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s defense team will show videos of Democrats encouraging violence at his Senate trial, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s impeachment trial is set to begin on Tuesday, and the Kentucky Republican said his defense team will seek to turn the tables.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you\u2019re going to see the Trump defense play video of Rep. Maxine Waters telling crowds to mob Trump administration officials and attack them. They\u2019ll probably show clips of Cory Booker saying get up in the face of these congresspeople. You\u2019ll probably see comments from Rep. [Ilhan] Omar celebrating the violence that happened to me when I had six ribs broken and part of a lung removed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Castor, one of Trump\u2019s lawyers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/25\/politics\/maxine-waters-trump-officials\/index.html\">told<\/a> Fox News\u2019 Laura Ingraham on Friday \u201cyou can count on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been looking at a lot of video over the past couple of days,\u201d Castor said.&nbsp;\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of tape of cities burning and courthouses being attacked and federal agents being assaulted by rioters in the streets, cheered on by Democrats throughout the country, and many of them in Washington using really the most inflammatory rhetoric that\u2019s possible to use,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou better be careful what you wish for,\u201d Castor said of the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Waters in 2018 called for Democrats to harass Trump administration officials. \u201cLet\u2019s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they\u2019re not welcome anymore, anywhere,\u201d Waters said at the Wilshire Federal Building, as seen in video of the event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In an interview w\/ Joy Ann Reid, Rep. Waters then doubled down on her call to be \u201cmore confrontational\u201d w\/ Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SnXfHc6hJg\">pic.twitter.com\/SnXfHc6hJg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1347531660749844481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Waters later appeared on MSNBC to double down on her remarks, saying she had \u201cno sympathy\u201d for Trump administration officials. \u201cThe people are going to turn on them. They\u2019re going to protest. They\u2019re going to absolutely harass them until they decide that they\u2019re going to tell the President, \u2018No, I can\u2019t hang with you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then-House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told Fox News at the time that Waters\u2019 remarks were \u201cvery dangerous\u201d and called upon the California Democrat to apologize. Sen. Jeff Flake, a retiring Arizona Republican who has repeatedly criticized Trump, tweeted, \u201cLeft or right, nobody deserves this kind of treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also in 2018, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) told activists to \u201cget up in the face of some congresspeople.\u201d And Hillary Clinton this year said \u201cyou can\u2019t be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HillaryClinton<\/a> specifically said \u201cyou can\u2019t be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MAqtMvr6aj\">pic.twitter.com\/MAqtMvr6aj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1347526629560614915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also this year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said of getting active in politics, \u201cWhen you\u2019re in the arena, you have to be ready to take a punch and you have to be ready to throw a punch\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpeakerPelosi<\/a> said of getting active in politics, \u201cWhen you\u2019re in the arena, you have to be ready to take a punch and you have to be ready to throw a punch\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xe4U5ElFCW\">pic.twitter.com\/xe4U5ElFCW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1347532986208706562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In his trial, Trump\u2018s lawyers will also argue that the Senate lacks jurisdiction to convict the former president on a single impeachment article \u2014 primarily because the constitutional mechanism is used exclusively to remove a president from office, and Trump is already out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the House impeachment resolution logic, they could go back and impeach Abraham Lincoln,\u201d Castor said.<\/p>\n<p>House Democrats \u2013 along with 10 Republicans \u2013 passed the article charging Trump incited violence with his claims of election fraud and urging his supporters before and on January 6 to protest the joint session of Congress that convened to certify the 2020 results.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s defense team will show videos of Democrats encouraging violence at his Senate trial, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Sunday. 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