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Bernie Sanders asked Trump's lawyer if Trump won the 2020 election.

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At the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump, a question from Bernie Sanders asks the former president's defense whether the House prosecutors were right that Trump told a "big lie" by claiming the election was stolen, or whether Trump actually won. Trump's lawyer answers that his judgment is irrelevant to the proceeding, and someone in the chamber shouts back, "It absolutely is."

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Where
other - Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump
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45 seconds, unedited within the cut
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168 on Instagram
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The House prosecutors have stated over and over again that President Trump was perpetrating a big lie When he repeatedly claimed that the election was stolen from him and that he actually won the election by a landslide Are the prosecutors right when they claim that Trump was telling a big lie or in your judgment? Did Trump actually win the election the? Council for the former president have two and a half minutes my judgment who asked that My judgments here relevant in this proceeding it absolutely is What's supposed to happen here is the article

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