Q&A session of the trial

There were 28 questions asked

## Questions

1. Democrats Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein ⇒ House managers:
"Isn't it the case that the violent attack and siege on the Capitol on January 6 would not have happened if not for the conduct of President Trump?"
2. Republicans Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Roger Marshall, and Kevin Cramer ⇒ Counsel for Donald Trump:
"Does a politician raising bail for rioters encourage more rioting?"
3. Democrat Raphael Warnock ⇒ House managers:
"Is it true or false that in the months leading up to January 6th, dozens of courts, including State and Federal courts in Georgia, rejected President Trump's campaign's efforts to overturn his loss to Joe Biden?"
4. Republicans Susan Collins  and Lisa Murkowski  ⇒ Counsel for Donald Trump:
"Exactly when did President Trump learn of the breach of the Capitol, and what specific actions did he take to bring the rioting to an end, and when did he take them? Please be as detailed as possible."
5. Democrat Jacky Rosen ⇒ House managers:
"On January 6, the anti-Semitic Proud Boys group that President Trump had told to stand by, laid siege to the Capitol alongside other rioters, including one wearing a 'Camp Auschwitz' shirt. Is there evidence that President Trump knew or should have known that his tolerance of anti-Semitic hate speech, combined with his own rhetoric, could incite the kind of violence we saw on January 6?"
6. Republicans Bill Hagerty and Tim Scott ⇒ Counsel for Donald Trump:
"Given that more than 200 people have been charged for their conduct at the Capitol on January 6, that our justice system is working to hold the appropriate persons accountable, and that President Trump is no longer in office, isn't this simply a political show trial that is designed to discredit President Trump and his policies and shame the 74 million Americans who voted for him?"
7. Democrats Ed Markey and Tammy Duckworth ⇒ House managers:
"Exactly when did the President learn of the breach at the Capitol, and what steps did he take to address the violence? Please be as detailed as possible."
8. Republicans Mitt Romney  and Susan Collins  ⇒ **House managers** and the counsel for Donald Trump:
"When President Trump sent the disparaging tweet at 2:24 p.m. regarding Vice President Pence, was he aware that the Vice President had been removed from the Senate by the Secret Service for his safety?"
9. Democrats Amy Klobuchar, Bob Casey Jr., and Sherrod Brown ⇒ House managers:
"In presenting your case, you relied on past precedents from impeachment trials, such as William Belknap's impeachment. After what you have presented in the course of this trial, if we do not convict former President Trump, what message will we be sending to future Presidents and Congresses?"
10. Republicans Mike Lee, Josh Hawley, Mike Crapo, Marsha Blackburn, and Rob Portman ⇒ Counsel for Donald Trump:
"Multiple State constitutions enacted prior to 1787—namely, the constitutions of Delaware, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Vermont— specifically provided for the impeachment of a former officer. Given that the Framers of the U.S. Constitution would have been aware of these provisions, does their decision to omit language specifically authorizing the impeachment of former officials indicate that they did not intend for our Constitution to allow for the impeachment of former officials?"
11. Democrat Alex Padilla ⇒ House managers:
"Having been on the frontlines of combatting the 'big lie' over the past 4 years as California's chief elections officer, it is clear that President Trump's plot to undermine the 2020 election was built on lies and conspiracy theories. How did this plot to unconstitutionally keep President Trump in power lead to the radicalization of so many of President Trump's followers and the resulting attack on the Capitol?"
12. Republicans Josh Hawley and Kevin Cramer ⇒ Counsel for Donald Trump and the **House managers**:
"If the Senate's power to disqualify is not derivative of the power to remove a convicted President from office, could the Senate disqualify a sitting President but not remove him or her?"
13. Democrat Elizabeth Warren ⇒ House managers:
"The defense's presentation highlighted the fact that Democratic Members of Congress raised objections to the counting of electoral votes in past joint sessions of Congress. To your knowledge, were any of those Democratic objections raised after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol in order to prevent the counting of electoral votes and after the President's personal lawyer asked Senators to make these objections specifically to delay the certification?"
14. Republican Kevin Cramer ⇒ Counsel for Donald Trump:
"Given the allegations of the House manager that President Trump has tolerated anti-Semitic rhetoric, has there been a more pro-Israel President than President Trump?"
15. Independent Bernie Sanders ⇒ House managers and the **counsel for Donald Trump**:
"The House prosecutors have stated over and over again that President Trump was perpetrating a big lie when he repeatedly claimed that the election was stolen from him and that he actually won the election by a landslide. Are the prosecutors right when they claim that Trump was telling a big lie or, in your judgment, did Trump actually win the election?"
16. Republican Ron Johnson ⇒ Counsel for Donald Trump and the **House managers**:
"The House managers assert that the January 6 attack was predictable, and it was foreseeable. If so, why did it appear that law enforcement at the Capitol were caught off guard and unable to prevent the breach? Why did the House Sergeant at Arms reportedly turn down a request to activate the National Guard, stating that he was not comfortable with the optics?"
17. Democrat Jeff Merkley ⇒ House managers:
"If a President spins a big lie to anger Americans and stokes the fury by repeating the lie at event after event and invites violent groups to DC the day and hour necessary to interrupt the electoral college count and does nothing to stop those groups from advancing on the Capitol and fails to summon the National Guard to protect the Capitol and then expresses pleasure and delight that the Capitol was under attack, is the President innocent of inciting an insurrection because in a speech he says 'be peaceful'?"
18. Republican Ted Cruz ⇒ **House managers** and the counsel for Donald Trump:
"Out of their 16 hours, the House managers devoted all of 15 minutes to articulating a newly created legal standard for incitement: 1, was violence foreseeable; 2, did he encourage violence; 3, did he do so willfully? Is this new standard derived from the Criminal Code or any Supreme Court case? While violent riots were raging, Kamala Harris said on national TV: They're not gonna let up—and they should not. And she also raised money to bail out violent rioters. Using the managers' proposed standard, is there any coherent way for Donald Trump's words to be incitement and Kamala Harris' words not to be incitement?"
19. Democrat Patty Murray ⇒ House managers:
"At 6:01 p.m. eastern time on January 6, President Trump tweeted: These are the things that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viscously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long. Adding for rioters to 'go home with love and in peace.' What is the relevance of this tweet to President Trump's guilt?"
20. Republican Bill Cassidy  ⇒ Counsel for Donald Trump and the **House managers**:
"Senator Tuberville reports that he spoke to President Trump at 2:15 p.m. He told the President that the Vice President had just evacuated. I presume it was understood at this time that rioters had entered the Capitol and threatened the safety of Senators and the Vice President. Even after hearing of this, at 2:24 p.m. President Trump tweeted that Mike Pence 'lacked courage,' and he did not call for law enforcement backup until then."
21. Democrat Joe Manchin ⇒ House managers:
"Would the President be made aware of the FBI and intelligence information of a possible attack and would the President be responsible for not preparing to protect the Capitol and all elected officials of government with National Guard and law enforcement as he did when he appeared in front of the Saint John's Episcopal Church?"
22. Republican Dan Sullivan ⇒ Counsel for Donald Trump:
"The House manager said yesterday that due process is discretionary, meaning the House is not required to provide and, indeed, did not provide in this snap impeachment any constitutional protection to a defendant in the House impeachment proceedings. What are the implications for our constitutional order of this new House precedent combined with the Senate's power to disqualify from public office a private citizen in an impeachment trial?"
23. Democrat Richard Blumenthal ⇒ House managers:
"Former President Trump and his attorneys have cited the Brandenburg v. Ohio case in support of their argument that the First Amendment protects Trump. Did the Brandenburg case prohibit holding public officials accountable, through the impeachment process, for the incitement of violence?"
24. Republican Roger Marshall ⇒ Counsel for Donald Trump:
"The House Managers' single Article of Impeachment is centered on the accusation that President Trump singularly incited a crowd into a riot. Didn't the House managers' contradict their own charge by outlining the premeditated nature and planning of this event and by also showing the crowd was gathered at the Capitol even before the speech started and barriers were pushed over some 20 minutes before the conclusion of President Trump's speech?"
25. Democrat Chris Van Hollen ⇒ House managers:
"Would you please respond to the answer that was just given by the former President's counsel?"
26. Republican Marco Rubio ⇒ **House managers** and the counsel for Donald Trump:
"Voting to convict the former President would create a new precedent that a former official can be convicted and disqualified by the Senate. Therefore, is it not true that under this new precedent, a future House, facing partisan pressure to 'Lock her up,' could impeach a former Secretary of State and a future Senate be forced to put her on trial and potentially disqualify from any future office?"
27. Democrat Michael Bennet ⇒ House managers:
"Since the November election, the Georgia Secretary of State, the Vice President, and other public officials withstood enormous pressure to uphold the lawful election of President Biden and the rule of law. What would have happened if these officials had bowed to the force President Trump exerted or the mob that attacked the Capitol?"
28. Republican John Cornyn ⇒ Counsel for Donald Trump and the **House managers**:
"The House managers have argued that if the Senate cannot convict former officers, then the Constitution creates a January exception pursuant to which a President is free to act with impunity because he is not subject to impeachment, conviction, and removal and/or disqualification. But isn't a President subject to criminal prosecution after he leaves office for acts committed in office, even if those acts are committed in January?"