{"id":126279,"date":"2021-02-13T05:15:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T10:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=126279"},"modified":"2021-02-13T09:11:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:11:49","slug":"house-democrats-selectively-edited-trumps-speeches-defense-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-selectively-edited-trumps-speeches-defense-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats \u2018Selectively Edited\u2019 Trump\u2019s Speeches: Defense Attorney"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fhouse-democrats-selectively-edited-trumps-speeches-defense-attorney%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=126279&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>Democratic House impeachment managers \u201cselectively edited the president\u2019s words\u201d in making their case against former President Donald Trump, defense attorney David Schoen said on the fourth day of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-impeachment-trial\">impeachment trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWords matter, they told you, but they selectively edited the president\u2019s words over and over again,\u201d Schoen said on Feb. 12. \u201cThey manipulated video, time-shifting clips, and made it appear that the president\u2019s words were playing to a crowd when they weren\u2019t. Let\u2019s take a look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schoen showed lawmakers a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c4945900\/user-clip-schoen-alleges-house-dems-selectively-edited-trumps-words#\">video<\/a>\u00a0of Trump\u2019s speech on Jan. 6, showing a side-by-side comparison of what House impeachment managers had presented of Trump\u2019s words, and a fuller excerpt of what Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The left panel of the video showed a short portion of a montage of the events on Jan. 6 that lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1359213901783707649?s=20\">played at the trial<\/a>\u00a0in his opening statement. Part of the video montage showed Trump\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is seen saying: \u201cAfter this, we\u2019re going to walk down and I\u2019ll be there with you. We\u2019re going to walk down. We\u2019re going to walk down,\u201d after which the clip cuts to a separate scene of crowds in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 gathering near the Capitol building.<\/p>\n<p>On the right panel of the video, Trump was seen remarking: \u201cWe\u2019re going to walk down any one you want, but I think right here. We\u2019re going walk down to the Capitol, and we\u2019re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We\u2019re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you\u2019ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump continued: \u201cWe have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3684140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Trump-clapping-600x338-1.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump greets the crowd\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then-President Donald Trump greets the crowd at the \u201cStop The Steal\u201d rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Schoen pointed out that the video that Democrats showed omitted that Trump had wanted his supporters to make their voices heard \u201cpeacefully and patriotically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018And we are going to walk down to the Capitol,\u2019 they showed you that part. Why are we walking to the Capitol? Well they cut that off\u2014to cheer on some members of Congress and not others, peacefully and patriotically,\u201d Schoen said.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney said that the Supreme Court in a 1969 landmark decision in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supremecourt\/text\/395\/444\">Brandenburg v. Ohio<\/a>\u00a0ruled that \u201cthere\u2019s a very clear standard for incitement,\u201d notably, he said, paraphrasing, \u201cwhether the speech was intended to provoke imminent lawless action, and was it likely to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019Go to the Capitol and cheer on some members of Congress but not others,\u2019\u2014they know it doesn\u2019t meet the standard for incitement so they edited it down,\u201d Schoen pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the Democrats\u2019 video montage was shown, the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RSBNetwork\/status\/1359206661798387718?s=20\">posted on Twitter<\/a> pointing out that the video did not include Trump\u2019s calls for peace. The former president\u2019s son, Donald Trump Jr., also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1359297839483023361?s=20\">posted on Twitter<\/a>, pointing out that Democrats had used a \u201cdeceptively edited video\u201d to make their case. Newsweek, in a fact check, determined that RSBN\u2019s claim was true that the video was \u201cedited to leave out Trump\u2019s calls for peaceful protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasoninthehouse\/status\/1359228393326137345?s=20\">suggested on Twitter<\/a> on Feb. 9 that the video may have violated a House rule\u00a0which says people \u201cmay be subject to discipline\u00a0for the dissemination \u2026\u00a0of any image, video, or audio file that has been distorted or manipulated with the intent to mislead the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raskin\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<h2>References to Fighting<\/h2>\n<p>In another case, Schoen alleged that one of the House managers had quoted Trump out of context in using the remarks, \u201cyou have to get your people to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schoen showed Trump\u2019s remarks in full: \u201cYou have to get your people to fight. If they don\u2019t fight, we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don\u2019t fight. You primary them. We\u2019re going to let you know who they are. I can already tell you, frankly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people who need to fight are members of congress,\u201d Schoen clarified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do we have to skip the necessary due diligence and due process of law that any legal proceedings should have?\u201d he asked. \u201cIt couldn\u2019t have been the urgency to get President Trump out of office. House Democrats held the articles until he was no longer president, mooting their case. Hatred, animosity, division, political gain, and let\u2019s face it, for House Democrats, President Trump is the best enemy to attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schoen also pointed to how House Democrats and the media this week have been quoting \u201cfight like hell,\u201d which he says was used out of context.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe heard a lot this week about \u2018fight like hell\u2019 but they cut off the video before they showed you the president\u2019s optimistic patriotic words that followed immediately after,\u201d Schoen said, before showing another video comparison.<\/p>\n<p>In the Democrats\u2019 version of the video, Trump is seen as saying, \u201cWe fight like hell and if you don\u2019t fight like hell, you\u2019re not going to have a country anymore,\u201d before the clip is cut off. The fuller version shows the president continuing to say: \u201cOur exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun. My fellow Americans for our movement, for our children and for our beloved country and I say this, despite all that\u2019s happened, the best is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Double Standard\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Schoen said that house managers themselves have ignored their own words in condemning Trump\u2019s rhetoric and \u201cset a dangerous double standard,\u201d having advocated their supporters to \u201cfight\u201d multiple times in the past. He presented a lengthy video montage of\u00a0clips showing Democrats, some of them senators now serving as jurors, also telling their supporters to \u201cfight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen later said on the floor: \u201cThis is ordinary political rhetoric that is virtually indistinguishable from the language that has been used by people across the political spectrum for hundreds of years. Countless politicians have spoken of fighting for our principles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s attorneys asserted that the former president was entitled to dispute the 2020 election results and that his doing so did not amount to inciting the violence. They also likened the Democrats\u2019 questioning of the legitimacy of Trump\u2019s 2016 win to his challenge of his election loss. Here, Schoen also presented another video showing how multiple Democrats disputed the election results and continued to doubt the 2016 presidential election results after Trump came into office.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged, \u201cThe House managers\u2019 position really is that when [a] Republican candidate for office claims an election is stolen or that the winner is illegitimate it constitutes inciting insurrection, and the candidate should know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomehow when Democratic candidates publicly decry an election as stolen, or illegitimate, it\u2019s never a big lie. You\u2019ve been doing it for years,\u201d Schoen said, in a reference to how\u00a0House impeachment managers have alleged that Trump\u2019s \u201cbig lie\u201d\u2014the claim that the election was stolen\u2014incited the riot.<\/p>\n<p>The House voted\u00a0232-197 in January to impeach Trump, charging him of inciting an insurrection. Senate Democrats would need the support of 17 Republicans to convict Trump.\u00a0According to a tally by The Epoch Times, 35 Republican senators have suggested or committed to voting to acquit Trump.<\/p>\n<p>No president in U.S. history has ever been convicted.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump were to be convicted, the Senate could hold a subsequent vote to\u00a0disqualify him from ever holding office in the future. Unlike an impeachment conviction, which requires two-thirds of the Senate to be adopted, only a simple majority would be required to\u00a0ban Trump from future office.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic House impeachment managers \u201cselectively edited the president\u2019s words\u201d in making their case against former President Donald Trump, defense attorney David Schoen said on the fourth day of the impeachment &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893354,"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":[3998,3685,6621,3653,6622,3794],"class_list":["post-126279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-defense","tag-democrats","tag-edited","tag-house","tag-speeches","tag-trumps"],"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\/126279","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=126279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}