WASHINGTON — The US Senate gavels in Tuesday on Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial, with his defense team decrying it as a “brazen political act” of retribution and Democratic prosecutors arguing that the ex-president wilfully incited a violent insurrection.
The House of Representatives impeached him last month over his role in the deadly January 6 siege of the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, and his trial — the first of a former president — will feature the Senate’s 100 members sitting as jurors.
Trump’s legal team Monday denounced the case as unconstitutional, calling it “absurd” to hold the former president responsible for the violence.
But in a preview of th…
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