The lead House impeachment manager says the pro-Trump insurrection at the Capitol "did not spring up out of thin air."
During the second impeachment trial of former President Trump, Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin said Trump riled up his base with "corrosive lies" before the events on January 6th.
Raskin played videos of Trump saying there's "blame on both sides" after neo-Nazis killed a woman in Charlottesville, Virginia back in 2017.
He also showed Trump's tweets calling on Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to "give a little" to the heavily armed people protesting stay-at-home orders in April 2020.
Raskin called the siege of the Michigan state house "a state-level dress rehearsal" for the siege of the U.S. Capitol.
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