Trumpism on trial: Impeachment Day 3 highlights

Published February 11, 2021 9:59pm ET



The third day of the second impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump reached beyond Trump’s statements leading up to the Jan. 6 mob attack at the U.S. Capitol building, going as far back as 2015.

Democratic impeachment managers played clips of Trump making inflammatory statements. Those included when he said that there were “very fine people on both sides of the 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia, rally clash over Confederate statues attended by white supremacists, clips from Trump at campaign rallies in 2015 when he told protesters at his rallies to “get out of here” and noted to his supporters that he could “get a little violent,” and when he praised Montana Republican Senate candidate (now governor) Greg Gianforte in 2018 after he assaulted a reporter: “Any guy who can do a body slam is my kind of guy.”

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