The Democratic impeachment managers faced scrutiny from some conservatives for failing to include former President Donald Trump’s insistence that his supporters travel to the Capitol “peacefully” during the opening arguments of his impeachment trial.
The House Democrats’ 13-minute montage about the Capitol riot, which aired on Tuesday, the first day of the impeachment trial, did not include a clip from the president’s Jan. 6 rally in which he said, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol Building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard today.”
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