Richard Blumenthal

There is a need for more truth-telling. There is a need for more facts. And that`s why a 9/11-type commission will be important to uncover the larger causes, the individuals who should be held accountable.

The mob that Donald Trump mobilized was armed. The Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police recovered firearms on that day. And that mob is still out there and still dangerous.

Cornell is right. My colleagues may not do the right thing here, but I can’t be responsible for them. We’re doing the right thing by having this trial.

But I do think that this trial is having an enormous impact, and it will historically.

These colleagues are looking to the short term. If they were true to their oath and they followed the facts and law, that would vote to convict. Donald Trump violated his oath.

What`s on trial here is not just Donald Trump. It`s the mob that he summoned to Washington, incited to assault the Capitol, stop the vote counting, and even possibly assassinate members of the United States Congress, and to continue this…

My heart was in my throat as I watched that video. And it highlighted for me not only the continuing threat of domestic terrorism, that last line from one of the mob terrorists, 'Storm your state capitol,' but also the 77 days of Donald…

These injuries, which included stabbings, trauma, concussions, spinal breaks, and of course, loss of an eye, in the case of one Capitol policeman, five deaths are the kind of really repugnant consequences of his action that I think will…

I think that the big lie, the falsehoods, the deliberate kinds of deception that he is trying to foist on the Senate and the country will be even more abhorrent as a result of this trial.

What it says to me is that he is going down a path of falsehood, a big lie, which has been rejected by more than 60 court decisions.

I want to congratulate and thank you again, and I will very enthusiastically support your nomination on the condition that you come to Connecticut and visit us there.

I would like your commitment to work with this Committee and ensure that the VA prioritizes infrastructure, rebuilding, and most especially, obviously, for the interests of our Connecticut veterans, the facility in West Haven.

We owe it to our veterans to rebuild that infrastructure.

You are familiar, no doubt, with the reports about the numbers of veterans who were involved in the assault on the Capitol.

The American people need and deserve strong, robust action to deal with the crisis.

We thought long and hard about it and really searched our souls and minds about how we felt about that attack on the capitol, which was so repugnant and horrifying and horrible. Literally, they crossed the line.

The constitutional argument that somehow Donald Trump can’t be convicted simply because he’s no longer in office is flat-out wrong, on common sense, on a plain reading of the Constitution, on the assessment of remedies. He can still be…

Absolutely correct, Lawrence.

One Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal told CNN Thursday the trial could begin days after the inaugural.

We should be concerned about those kinds of procedural shenanigans, given Mitch McConnell's history because all he cares about is retaining his power and majority, which he now lacks, but that will be his agenda.

What I believe should happen is that there should be the beginning of a trial right after the inaugural. We can do both. That is, meet the urgent needs of the country to conquer the pandemic and revive the economy, but at the same time do…

Reserving the right to object, I think we have gone a little bit far afield from the six pro-democracy activists living abroad.

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hawley). The Senator from Connecticut.

The Senator from Illinois is absolutely right, and I was just going to, as a matter of fact, make that point because I think it is central to the objection that has been raised. In fact, the people in danger here are already here. They are…

I really regret this attack on a bill that was passed unanimously--Republicans, unanimously, and Democrats, unanimously--a bipartisan bill by the House of Representatives. If my colleagues are serious about moving a bill to the desk of the…