Trump Team Hoping ‘Peacefully and Patriotically’ Will Be Shield

Ex-president’s team pulling a dozen videos of Democrats
Presentation by one Trump lawyer at impeachment trial panned

WATCH: Representative Eric Swalwell, a Democrat from California and one of the House impeachment managers, shows video of protesters entering the Capitol on Jan. 6 and getting into an area directly under the Capitol rotunda. (Source: Bloomberg

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By Jennifer Jacobs and Mark Niquette

February 11, 2021 at 12:03 AM UTC

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Donald Trump’s impeachment team intends to lean heavily on his use of the words “peacefully and patriotically” in a Jan. 6 speech as part of his defense against the charge that the former president incited a mob of supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, according to people familiar with the effort.

The former president’s defenders are also assembling more than a dozen videos with what they hope will be a stronger argument after the rambling presentation by attorney Bruce Castor during the first day of his impeachment trial, the people said, a performance that was widely panned.