Trump’s lawyers score minor victory blocking Democratic attempt to call witness

By Arul Louis New York, Feb 14 : Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers scored a minor victory on Saturday forcing the Democratic Party prosecutors to back off calling witnesses after they had won a Senate vote to allow it.
With the agreement not to call the witness, the Senate was set to vote its verdict on the charge that Trump had incited the January 6 riot in which his supporters stormed the Capitol when Congress was in the process of tallying the electoral votes electing Joe Biden as president.
The lead prosecutor Jamie Raskin began the concluding arguments citing Republicans who were critical of Trump and accusing him of complicity in the riot. He called Trump the “insurrectionist-in-chief”.
Trump must be convicted for the safety of American democracy, he said.
Trump was likely to be acquitted after the because the Democrats may not be able to get the 67 votes, the two-thirds majority, required to for his conviction.
If the Democrats had gone ahead with calling her as witness, the Republicans would also have been able to call witness prolonging the trial and jamming up the passage of Biden’s agenda.