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Donald Trump refuses to testify in Senate trial

Fin not to receive: Donald Trump will not testify in the context of his trial in the Senate, one of his advisers announced Thursday, February 4, 2021, declining an invitation formulated by the elected Democrat who leads the prosecution in this case. The former “president will not testify in a procedure contrary to the Constitution,” Jason Miller told Agence France-Presse. As part of the impeachment procedure targeting him, the Republican billionaire will be tried from Tuesday for “incitement to insurrection” during the assault on the Capitol on January 6.

Democrat Jamie Raskin, who will play the role of prosecutor during the hearings, had invited him to “testify under oath before or during the trial about his conduct on January 6”, the day his supporters attacked the Capitol. “We propose that your testimony, which will of course include cross-examination, take place between Monday 8 and Thursday 11 February,” the elected representative of the House of Representatives wrote to him. “If you decline this invitation, we reserve all rights, including the right to argue at trial that your refusal to testify weighs heavily against you,” Jamie Raskin added.

“Communication blow”

The former president’s lawyers immediately denounced a “communication blow” in a procedure they said “unconstitutional”. “This confirms what everyone knows: you cannot prove your accusations against the 45th President of the United States, who has become a simple citizen again,” they replied to Jamie Raskin in a letter posted by several media .

The former Republican president is accused of having encouraged his supporters to launch an assault on the Capitol, when the elected officials certified the victory of Joe Biden in the presidential election. Just before the attack, he spoke to a crowd of protesters gathered in Washington to protest his defeat. “You will never take back our country by being weak. You have to show strength, ”he told them.

A week later, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives indicted him and Donald Trump became the first president in US history to twice endure the infamy of “impeachment.” “. He had already been sent to trial at the end of 2019 for asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son. He had not testified at this first trial and was quickly acquitted by a Senate with a Republican majority. Even though Democrats have since regained control of the upper house, it will be difficult for them to rally enough Republicans to meet the threshold of 67 out of 100 senators needed for a guilty verdict.

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