If Senate does not convict Trump, ‘he can do this again,’ Democrats warn

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WASHINGTON — Democratic prosecutors making the case that Donald Trump incited a deadly insurrection by encouraging his supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol warned the Senate on Thursday that if it fails to convict the former president, “he can do this again.”

The first three days of Trump’s impeachment trial focused on his fiery words to supporters in the weeks leading up to the January 6 attack, when he falsely claimed that his election defeat by Democrat Joe Biden was the result of fraud and that the crowd needed to “fight” and “stop the steal.”

The Democrats appear highly unlikely to secure a conviction and bar Trump from ever again holding public office given that only…

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