Trump’s defense will take the floor on Friday, and the proceedings could finish with a vote this weekend
House prosecutors concluded two days of emotional arguments in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial late Thursday, insisting the Capitol invaders believed they were acting on “the president’s orders” to stop Joe Biden’s election, the deadly culmination of Mr Trump’s pattern of spreading false and violent rhetoric that will continue to vex American politics if left unchecked.
The Democratic prosecutors described in stark, personal terms the horror faced that January day, including in the very Senate chamber where Mr Trump’s trial is underway. They displayed the many public and explicit instructions Mr Trump gave his supporters — long before the White House rally that unleashed the Capitol attack as Congress was certifying Mr Biden’s victory. Five people died in the chaos and its aftermath, a domestic attack unparalleled in U.S. history.
In videos, some posted to social…