Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, told CNN the video montage former President Trump’s defense team showed amounted to a “bogus argument.”
“Donald Trump was told that if he didn’t stop lying about the election people would be killed. He wouldn’t stop, and the Capitol was attacked and seven people are dead who would be alive today. That’s what I think about this,” he added.
Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat from New Mexico, called it a “completely false equivalence. I don’t remember any violent mobs after any of those comments, so it’s just not the same thing.”
Sen. Chris Coons, a Democratic from Delaware, said, “Show me any time that the result was, our supporters pulled someone out of the crowd, beat the living crap out of them, and then we said, ‘That’s great, good for you, you’re a patriot.'”
But some Republicans are praising the Trump team.
Sen. John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, said it’s a “really well done defense” to start.
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, offered up a full-throated endorsement of the defense’s presentation, saying that “the President’s lawyers blew the house managers’ case out of the water.”
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