Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis have voted 'Not Guilty' on whether former president Donald Trump just be convicted of insurrection, due to his involvement in the Capitol attack on January 6.
Democratic prosecutors in Donald Trump's impeachment trial say rioters believed they were acting on the “president’s orders” to storm the Capitol to undo Joe Biden's election victory.
Senator John Barrasso, along with Senator Cynthia Lummis voted today that the impeachment trial against former president Donald Trump was 'unconstitutional,' though the Senate majority voted in favor of moving forward with the trial.
The vote was 56-44 on Tuesday on the question of whether the Senate has jurisdiction and could proceed. It came after four hours of arguments from Trump’s lawyers and the Democratic impeachment managers, who are arguing that the former president incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
His daughter and son-in-law were in an office in the Capitol and hid under a desk, where they sent what they thought were their final texts. He says, “They thought they were going to die."
Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial has opened in the Senate with graphic video of the deadly Jan. 6 attack on Congress after the defeated former president whips up a rally crowd.