washington us house democrats leading the prosecution of former president donald trump at his senate impeachment trial have concluded their arguments urging republican senators to not to acquit him for the second time if they dont want to set a new terrible standard for presidential misconductthey alleged that trump was the one who incited his supporters to storm the capitol hillthe capitol building was stormed on january 6 after thousands of supporters of trump gathered in support of false claims that widespread fraud denied him victory in last novembers presidential electionfive people died including a capitol police officer as the mob breached the building where the november 3 election result was being certifiedthe us senate began the impeachment trial of trump a republican on wednesday with impeachment managers from the democratic partycontrolled house of representatives making a strong case against the former president accusing him of inciting the insurrectionnine impeachment managers of the democratic party showed a number of chilling video footage from the january 6 attack to argue that trump needs to be impeachedthey described the attack as one of the darkest chapters in american historythey also showed previously undisclosed and chilling security camera footage of the mayhemif you think this is not impeachable what is what would be said representative jamie raskin the lead house impeachment managerif you dont find this a high crime and misdemeanour today you have set a new terrible standard for presidential misconduct in the united states of americathe managers also warned that failure to convict trump would set a dangerous precedent that future presidents could exploitwe humbly humbly ask you to convict president trump for the crime for which he is overwhelmingly guilty of said congressman joe negusebecause if you dont if we pretend this didnt happen or worse if we let it go unanswered whos to say it wont happen againlawyers for trump are scheduled to begin their counter argument on fridaylike the democrats they have 16 hours spread over the next two days friday and saturday to present their casehowever political pundits said that trump is likely to be acquitted for the second timetrump lost the elections to joe biden who was sworn in as the 46th president on january 20while the house where the democrats have the majority impeached him before january 20 when he was still the president the senate impeachment trial has begun three weeks after he left officethis is for the first time in american history that a former us president is being impeached trump 74 is also the first president ever to have been impeached twicea twothirds majority is needed to convict trump meaning 17 republicans would have to vote with the democrats in the 100member senate where both parties have 50 seats eachby thursday democrats were expecting support from five or six republican senators still short of 11 to get to the magic figurehowever the democrats through liberal use of harrowing videos of the january 6 attack were successful in touching