Febuary 12, 2021

Donald Trump’s lead impeachment attorney on Friday denied that the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 amounted to an insurrection, a stunning claim that contradicts the Justice Department and the bipartisan, broadly accepted version of events.

The assertion from Bruce Castor, Trump’s lead attorney for the Senate’s impeachment trial, was among several that stunned senators as the former president’s defense team rested its case using just three of the 16 hours it was allotted.

“Clearly, there was no insurrection,” Bruce Castor told senators as part of a presentation that included out-of-context arguments to push back against the House managers’ charge that Trump incited the violence that left five people dead.

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