Raskin speech today full#

But if, on the other hand, when the fire erupts, you go and you pour more fuel on it, you stand by and you watch it, gleefully, any reasonable person will infer that you not only intended the fire to start, but that once it got started and began to spread, you intended to continue to keep the fire going.Д«oth to the situation of the offense, but also directly relevant, directly illuminating to what your purpose was originally, what was your intent? And any court in the land would laugh out of court any criminal defendant who said, 'What I did after I allegedly killed that person is irrelevant.' To whether or not I intended to kill them. They would accept your defense, perhaps, that it was all an accident, accidents happen with fire. If you run over and try to put out the flames, if you get lots of water and say, 'Help, help, there's a fire.' If you call for help, a court will infer that - could infer that - you didn't intend for the fire to be lit in the first place. It's extremely relevant to whether or not you committed the crime.

And the defense counsel says everything that I did after the fire started is irrelevant and the court would reject that immediately and say that's not true at all.

When my opposing counsel says that you should ignore the president's actions after the insurrection began, that is plainly wrong and it, of course, reflects the fact that they have no defense to his outrageous, scandalous and unconstitutional conduct in the middle of a violent assault on the Capitol that he incited.

The conduct described not only perpetuated his continuing offense, but also provides to us here today further decisive evidence of his intent to incite the insurrection in the first place. The president said, 'Well Kevin, I guess these people' - meaning the mobsters, the insurrectionists - 'are more upset about the election than you are.' That conduct is obviously part and parcel of the constitutional offense that he was impeached for, namely incitement to insurrection, that is continuing incitement to the insurrection. This uncontradicted statement that has just been stipulated as part of the evidentiary record. And when he was told that the insurgents inside the Capitol were Trump supporters the president said, 'Well Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.' After he knew that violence was underway at the Capitol, President Trump took actions that further incited the insurgents to be more inflamed and to take even more extreme, selective and focused action against Vice President Mike Pence.ДЇormer President Trump also, as described by Congresswoman Buetler's notes, refused requests to publicly, immediately and forcefully call off the riots. I want to reject that falsehood and that fallacy immediately. It was suggested by defense counsel that Donald Trump's conduct during the attack, as described in Congresswoman Beutler's statement, is somehow not part of the constitutional offense for which former President Trump has been charged.

Raskin speech today full#

Here is the full speech delivered by Raskin: As expected, only seven Republicans voted to convict and 17 would have been needed to flip sides to get the two-thirds needed for conviction. Lead Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin, D-Md., delivered a searing closing speech on Saturday as the House impeachment managers pushed to convict former President Donald Trump in the Senate.Дespite the speech, Trump was not convicted.