Democrats to argue Trump alone incited mob

Impeachment managers walk through the Rotunda to the Senate for the impeachment trial. Picture: Alex Brandon/AP

House Democrats are set to begin two days of arguments in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, trying to convince sceptical Republicans that the former president alone was responsible for inciting his mob of supporters who broke into the US Capitol on January 6.

The arguments from the nine Democratic impeachment managers for the House, which impeached Mr Trump last month, will come a day after the Senate voted to move ahead with the trial even though Republicans and the former president’s lawyers argued that it was unconstitutional because Mr Trump had already left office.