Raskin: "This case is much worse than someone who falsely shouts fire in a crowded theater. It's more like like a case where the town fire chief, who's paid to put out fires, sends a mob not to yell fire in a crowded theater, but to actually set the theater on fire."

"Is this America?"

Neguse: "Some have said that Trump's remarks, his speech on Jan 6, was just a speech. Let me ask you this: When in our history has a speech led thousands of people to storm our nation's capital with weapons, to scale the walls, break windows, and kill a Capitol police officer?"

Neguse outlines how Trump created a "no lose" situation by repeatedly insisting the only way he could use to Biden was if it was stolen from him

Neguse uses Trump's own words to illustrate how Trump's January 6 speech hammered home the lie that the election was stolen from him and was aimed at getting his followers to do something about it

Neguse on Capitol rioters: "They were doing what he wanted them to do ... they were following the president"

Neguse presents evidence that MAGA rioters intended to kill Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi if they had a chance to do so

Castro: "Senators, POTUS said, 'there won't be a transition of power. There will be a continuation.' Trump was given every opportunity to tell his supporters yes, if I lose, I will peacefully transfer power. Instead, he [said] the only way he could lose is if it was stolen"

Castro: "He truly made his base believe that the only way he could lose was if the election was rigged. And senators, all of us know and all of us understand how dangerous that is for our country."

Remember Trump's totally bonkers speech declaring victory in the middle of the night on November 4?

A video clip during Castro's presentation illustrates how some of the November "stop the steal" protests in Michigan, Arizona, and elsewhere presaged the January 6 insurrection

it's pretty wild that the president was posting tweets like this trying to invalidate democracy and we were like, welp, just Trump being Trump!

Swalwell points out that Trump spent $50 million on national "STOP THE STEAL!" ads that ran until January 5 -- the day before the insurrection

"fight to the death"

The impeachment trial is really driving home how remarkable it is that President Biden is in office at all. We somehow, for now at least, came out the other side of an authoritarian attempt.

Trump numbed us so much that by late 2020, him holding political rallies to mobilize his base to overthrow democracy was barely a blip in the news cycle.

Madeleine Dean: "Senators, we must not become numb to this. Trump did this across state after state so often and so loudly and so publicly."

Ted Lieu just made the impeachment hearing PG-13

Lieu details how Trump turned on Pence in a last-ditch effort to overturn his election loss

Lieu: "Trump ran out of nonviolent options to maintain power ... What you saw was a man so desperate to cling to power that he tried everything he could to keep it, & when he ran our nonviolent measures, he turned to the violent mob that attacked your Senate chamber on January 6"

A real tweet that was posted by the President of the United States

Del. Stacey Plaskett on Jan. 6: "The permit stated in no uncertain terms that the march from the ellipse was not permitted. It was not until after President Trump and his team became involved in the planning that the march from the ellipse to the Capitol came about."

Plaskett: "The truth is President Trump spent months calling his supporters to a march on a specific day in a specific time in a specific place to stop the certification ... that is why he must be convicted and disqualified."

Madeleine Dean gets emotional recounting the Capitol breech on January 6 and the "panicked calls" she placed to her family members

Trump's lawyers argued yesterday that this was a normal political speech

normal lawyer stuff

I hadn't seen this video of Trump fans responding to his January 6 by yelling, "Take the Capitol!" and "Storm the Capitol!"

Dean: "The truth is, this attack never would have happened but for Donald Trump. And so they came, draped in Trump's flag, and used our flag, the American flag, to batter and bludgeon."

"this is a revolution"

Wow. Security footage I haven't seen before lays out just how close the Trump mob came to having an opportunity to get their hands on Mike Pence

Plaskett presents security footage of Pelosi staffers rushing to barricade themselves in an office as rioters close in. Then, just minutes later, rioters start throwing themselves against the office doors.

Plaskett: "The VP, Speaker, the first and second in line to the presidency, were performing their constitutional duties ... President Trump put a target on their backs and his mob broke into the Capitol to hunt them down."

Swalwell: "Uncertain what would happen next, I sent a text message to my wife. 'I love you and the babies. Please hug them for me.' I imagine many of you sent a similar message."

This is how close the Trump mob came to members of Congress. Ashli Babbitt was shot dead in this location moments later.

This video shows how members of Congress could hear the Ashli Babbitt shooting

I hadn't seen this security footage of officers fighting with rioters before

here's previously unreleased footage of US senators being evacuated just around a corner from where rioters

Swalwell: "If the doors to this chamber had been breached just minutes earlier, imagine what they could done with those cuffs."

Here's footage of Chuck Schumer having a close encounter with rioters while he was being evacuated on January 6

Damn. Here's video of rioters beating officers with, among other things, a Trump flag

The House impeachment managers’ case against Trump, summarized in 500 words https://www.vox.com/2021/2/10/22277036/trump-impeachment-trial-summarized

Cicilline: "On January 6, Donald Trump did not once condemn this attack. He did not once condemn the attackers. In fact, on January 6, the only person he condemned was his own vice president, Mike Pence, who was hiding in this building with his family in fear for his life."

Cicilline points out that Trump's first response to attack on the Capitol was to release a propaganda video of his "stop the steal" speech

pretty damning

Cicilline plays a voicemail Giuliani left for Tuberville during the insurrection asking him to delay the certification of the Electoral College vote

"Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence"

Castro lays out how Trump "further incited the mob" against Mike Pence

Castro on Trump's belated January 6 tweet urging peace: "Stay peaceful? How about, 'stop the attack' ... the truth is, he didn't want it to stop. He wanted them to stay and to stop the certification."

Here's video of one of the rioters reading Trump's tweet attacking Pence right as it was posted during the insurrection

Castro points out the absurdity of Trump responding to the insurrection by thanking (!) the rioters

Castro: "There's no indication that President Trump ever made a call to have the Guard deployed."

Castro concludes the day with this: "President Trump too took an oath as president. He swore on a bible to preserve, protect, and defend. And who among us can honestly say they believe that he upheld that oath? And who among us will let utter dereliction of duty stand?"