The first impeachment involved no crime. Crimes are not relevant in a political show trail, neither are legal precedents.
Trial.
(It struck me today, listening to Ken Starr on TV, that by this ‘impeachment’ the Dems seem to be admitting that Trump is still president...maybe that qualifies as a ‘Freudian’ giveaway, in some sense.)
If there is a trial, the Republicans who are against it should air video of the actual speech that the President gave, along with a timeline contrasting the speech against when the trouble at the Capitol actually began. (People who were actually there have already attested to the fact that the trouble began well before the President even finished his speech.)
These democrats - and the flaccid republicans who are caving to them - are lying to our faces, and they don’t even care that we can see it plainly.
Speech Timeline begins at 14:30, Ken Starr at 17.03 (I don’t know how long this link will be good):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv9jHpNftkc