Trump's new lawyers have argued their first formal response to a House impeachment charge, arguing Trump was exercising free speech in run-up to MAGA riot. His new lawyer David Schoen denies the charge of 'incitement of insurrection' or rebellion against the U.S. He says election fraud claims are still not proven false. 

The nonpartisan Coup D’état Project at the Cline Center of the University of Illinois, which analyzes and categorizes political violence, last week determined that the storming of the Capitol "was an attempted coup d’état: an organized, illegal attempt to intervene in the presidential transition by displacing the power of the Congress to certify the election.” Its statement about the coup warns that “coups and attempted coups are among the most politically consequential forms of destabilizing events tracked by the Cline Center.”