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The first full day of Trump’s second impeachment trial featured a defense that spent far more energy on constitutional fine print than on the mob that stormed the Capitol. That mismatch mattered: it signaled to the public, and to Senate Republicans, that the former president’s team was aiming for exoneration by abstraction, not persuasion by contrition.
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The first full day of Trump’s second impeachment trial featured a defense that spent far more energy on constitutional fine print than on the mob that stormed the Capitol. That mismatch mattered: it signaled to the public, and to Senate Republicans, that the former president’s team was aiming for exoneration by abstraction, not persuasion by contrition.
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The first full day of Trump’s second impeachment trial featured a defense that spent far more energy on constitutional fine print than on the mob that stormed the Capitol. That mismatch mattered: it signaled to the public, and to Senate Republicans, that the former president’s team was aiming for exoneration by abstraction, not persuasion by contrition.
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