{"id":125781,"date":"2021-02-12T14:42:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=125781"},"modified":"2021-02-12T15:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T20:30:05","slug":"hypocrisy-trump-team-shows-videos-of-democrat-lawmakers-during-impeachment-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hypocrisy-trump-team-shows-videos-of-democrat-lawmakers-during-impeachment-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hypocrisy:\u2019 Trump Team Shows Videos of Democrat Lawmakers During Impeachment Trial"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fhypocrisy-trump-team-shows-videos-of-democrat-lawmakers-during-impeachment-trial%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=125781&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--><p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s legal team on Friday accused legislators of hypocrisy as they played lengthy video montages of elected officials speaking about committing assault against Trump, threatening his supporters, and backing protests last year that regularly turned violent.<\/p>\n<p>Going on the offense in their first day of presentations during Trump\u2019s second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-impeachment\">impeachment<\/a> trial, the attorneys used a strategy pushed by many conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Michael van der Veen argued that Trump did not use any inciting language on Jan. 6 before the breach of the Capitol, but that numerous members of Congress have.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-Calif.) \u201cherself said the 2016 election was hijacked and that Congress has a a duty to protect our democracy,\u201d he told the Senate. \u201cShe also called the president an imposter and a traitor, and recently referred to our colleagues in the House as \u2018the enemy within.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoreover, many Democrat politicians endorsed and encouraged the riots that destroyed vast swaths of American cities last summer,\u201d he added. \u201cWhen violent left-wing anarchists conducted a sustained assault on a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, Speaker Pelosi did not call it an insurrection. Instead, she called the federal law enforcement officers protecting the building storm troopers. When violent mobs destroyed public property she said, \u2018People will do what they do.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rioters, some affiliated with anarcho-communist network Antifa and Black Lives Matter, ransacked stores across major U.S. cities last year, and severely damaged government and civic buildings.<\/p>\n<p>David Schoen, another Trump lawyer, later played video clips of Pelosi and others making inflammatory comments.<\/p>\n<p>In one instance in 2018, referring to anger over migrant children being separated from their parents, she told reporters:\u00a0\u201cI just don\u2019t even know why there aren\u2019t uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be when people realize that this is a policy that they defend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also\u00a0also said on multiple occasions, \u201cyou have to be ready to throw a punch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s office didn\u2019t return an inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3693657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pelosi-in-red-2-1200x828-1.jpg\" alt=\"pelosi\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks during a press conference in Washington on Feb. 11, 2021. (Olivier Douliery\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), during a 2020 appearance on MSNBC, said, \u201cThere needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there\u2019s unrest in our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris encouraged people to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/minnesota-nonprofit-with-35m-bails-out-those-accused-of-violent-crimes\">bailed out<\/a> defendants\u00a0charged with murder, violent felonies, and sex crimes.<\/p>\n<p>And President Joe Biden spoke to crowds on multiple occasions about beating Trump up, as did a number of senators.<\/p>\n<p>Schoen said the \u201chatred and anger\u201d shown in the clips led House impeachment managers \u201cto ignore their own words and actions and set a dangerous double standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe house managers spoke about rhetoric, about a constant drumbeat of heated language. As I\u2019m sure everyone watching expected, we need to show you some of their own words,\u201d he said, before playing more snippets.<\/p>\n<p>Managers argued that Trump\u2019s \u201cfight like hell\u201d exhortation to supporters on Jan. 6 was part of his inciting the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Schoen later showed\u00a0how Democrat lawmakers have used similar language before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery single one of you and every one of you, that\u2019s okay. You didn\u2019t do anything wrong,\u201d he said, pointing at the senators and managers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a word people use, but please stop the hypocrisy. And did you tone down the rhetoric last summer when all this was happening? Did you condemn the rioters or did you stand with Nancy Pelosi who said, \u2018People are going to do what they\u2019re going to do?&#8217;\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Senators were murmuring throughout the montage, and some passed notes to each other. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who saw himself on the screen objecting to 2017 electoral results, took numerous notes while the videos played.<\/p>\n<p>Several Democrats smiled as clips of them were played, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) audibly laughed while Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) was seen rolling her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re trying to draw a dangerous and distorted equivalence,\u201d Blumenthal told reporters afterwards. \u201cI think it is plainly a distraction from Donald Trump inviting the mob to Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the comparison is apt about about public officials using the word fight because I think the public record is pretty substantial with example after example where the President encouraged violence, refused to condemn it,\u201d added Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s legal team on Friday accused legislators of hypocrisy as they played lengthy video montages of elected officials speaking about committing assault against Trump, threatening his supporters, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4912,3673,3710,4000,3634,6554],"class_list":["post-125781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrat","tag-lawmakers","tag-shows","tag-team","tag-trump","tag-videos"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}