Democrats contend in impeachment, Trump aimed mob ‘like a shot cannon’ at the Capitol:

Democrats contend in impeachment, Trump aimed mob ‘like a shot cannon’ at the Capitol by attacking a crowd of supporters “like a loaded cannon” at the US Capitol. Donald Trump threatened the lives of all members of Congress. House Democrats said Tuesday in making their most comprehensive case yet. The former president should be prosecuted and permanently removed from office. Trump, through his attorneys, refuted the charges and called the trial illegal.

The first public preview claims made to the Senate starting next week. The impeachment trial is a remarkable reckoning with the brutality in the Capitol last month. Witnessed first hand by the senators, and with the overall presidency of Trump. However, it will pit Democratic demands for a final measure of transparency against the willingness of many Republicans to turn the page and move on, held in the very chamber where the insurrectionists stood on 6th January.

Republicans would need to join the 50 Democrats in the Senate in voting to convict:

Trump also faced a deadline on Tuesday to respond to the impeachment article passed by the Democratic-led House on January 13th accusing him of inciting rebellion in his address to supporters prior to the Capitol rampage, which left five people dead, including a police officer. Republican arguments would be illegal to place Trump on trial in the Senate. Because he became a private citizen after leaving the office. In January, twenty people dismissed by the nine House Democrats known as House impeachment managers, in their brief.

Similarly, Trump is just the third president to impeach the first impeach twice, and after leaving office the first to face trial. In his impeachment trial members of the 100-seat Senate will act as jurors set to start next week. Moreover, it would take a two-thirds vote to convict Trump meaning that 17 Republicans would need to join the 50 Democrats in the Senate in voting to convict. That presents Democrats with a daunting hurdle.