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The emphasis on Trump’s actions focused more on a question-and-answer session a few hours on Friday, just a day before the Senate voted on whether he was guilty of “crimes and high crimes” for ” deliberately inciting violence against the United States government. “
Four of the six Republican senators seen as possible tipping votes tried to gain new insights into when Trump discovered the Capitol had been breached and how he had responded, stressing how it has become a significant issue for the handful of senators. undecided Republicans.
“The real problem is what the president’s intention was, right?” said the senator. Bill Cassidy
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GOP Sens. Susan Collins
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Collins and Sen. Mitt Romney
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Trump’s lawyers could not say when Trump specifically learned that a crowd had violated the Capitol, but said that according to Trump’s tweets, it was before 2:15 p.m., but denied that he knew that Pence was in danger.
“The answer is no,” Trump’s attorney, Michael Van Der Veen, said on the Senate floor. “At no time did the president inform the vice president that he was in any danger.”
The questions provide infrequent information on what issues potential voting senators continue to weigh after four days of opening arguments and when the trial is set to conclude on Saturday.
The answers seemed to not satisfy both Collins and Murkowski.
“It was like, ‘Wait a minute it wasn’t very sensitive,'” Murkowski said. “I thought it was a better attempt a second time, but yeah, I really didn’t think it would answer our question.”
Collins added that “I didn’t seem to really get an answer, but I’m not sure it was the councillor’s fault.” He said “it is difficult to answer a question like this” after the House refused to hold hearings to establish certain basic facts.
“I was hoping they had one side or the other, because I think it’s a very important question from when the president found out that the barricades were broken,” he said.
In another warning sign for Trump’s legal team, Cassidy – who has filed an 11-hour swing vote – asked a later question that was welcomed this week by Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Wing). who said Trump said Pence had been removed from the Senate chamber.
“Senator Tuberville reports that he spoke with President Trump at two-thirty in the afternoon. He told the president that the vice president had just been evacuated. I assumed that at that time it was understood that the riots had entered the Capitol and threatened the safety of senators and the vice president, “Cassidy wrote in his question.
Cassidy, in his question, noted that Trump later tweeted that Pence “lacked courage” and that at the time he had not requested a backup from law enforcement.
“The tweet and the lack of response suggest that President Trump didn’t care that Vice President Pence was in danger or that law enforcement was overwhelmed,” Cassidy continued in his question.
The way Cassidy could finally vote in the impeachment trial has come under increasing scrutiny after she sided with senators convening the constitutional trial this week.
He was the only one of the six senators who voted to continue and who previously supported an effort by the senator. Rand Paul
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But Trump’s team said it rejected the premise of Cassidy’s question, arguing it was based on Tuberville’s “saying it”.
“I discuss the premise of your facts,” Van Der Veen told Cassidy.
Tuberville unwittingly recovered questions about when Trump learned Pence was in danger this week. On Wednesday he revealed to reporters that he had informed Trump, who called him during the attack, that Pence had been removed from the chamber.
Tuberville told reporters Friday night that he was by her side. Pressed if the call took place at 2:15 p.m., he said he wasn’t sure about the exact time, but that the call happened just as he said.
“[I] he replied [and] he was the president. He said a few things. I said ‘Mr. President, they have removed the vice president. They want me off the phone, I have to leave, ”Tuberville said.
Pence was evacuated from the chamber at 2:13 p.m., and the Senate chamber was closed at about 2:15 p.m., according to a Jan. 6 pool report from Washington Post journalist Paul Kane. he found his place inside the chamber.
Cassidy’s question caught the attention of other senators, who described it as a highlight of the hour-long session.
Romney – the only Republican senator to vote on one of Trump’s dismissal articles last year – credited Cassidy with asking the question “in more detail and that also clarified his answers.”
But Cassidy said she was not happy with the answer.
“It simply came to our notice then. Tuberville was right there, ”Cassidy said. “I didn’t think it was a very good answer.”