The Senate is taking a roughly 15-minute break before continuing with arguments from Trump's defense team.

Ahead of the trial resuming on Friday, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota -- the No. 2 in GOP leadership -- questioned the effectiveness of the defense team using videos of Democrats saying similar words that Trump has used. He said he isn't sure "that it bears a lot on this case."

However, it's a strategy the defense team is leaning into with its arguments.

"They may show some videos of other similar incidents, which I don't know if that's an effective strategy," Thune said.

Asked if there was an equivalency to what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and Democrats' past rhetoric, Thune didn't express confidence that Trump's attorneys would make that case.

"Well, that's what I'm saying, I don't know, I think we will see. It depends, I suppose, on how they tie it all together," he said.

Looking past the trial, Thune said he might be supportive of a censure to the former president and said it depends on if that measure could be "effective."

"I know there were a couple of resolutions out there," Thune said, adding that at least a couple "could attract some support."

He said he didn't think resolutions to bar Trump from running again would "go anywhere."

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The former president's legal team argued that the increased "hatred" in politics has led to more incendiary political language and that the First Amendment protections must be applied evenly across all political language.

"Will the Senate then have to deal with constant articles of impeachment by a majority party accusing minority presidents or other elected officials of so-called 'inciteful' or false speeches?" Michael van der Veen said. "You can see where this would lead."

Van der Veen argued that Trump's speech and the speech of other politicians is protected by case law and the Constitution, and accused House managers of urging senators to ignore that.

"They astoundingly urge you to disregard your oath by ignoring the First Amendment of the Constitution. They also ignore landmark binding United States Supreme Court cases ... which unequivocally hold that elected officials have core First Amendment rights to engage in the exact type of political speech which Mr. Trump engaged in," van der Veen said.

Arguing Democrats are setting a "dangerous double standard," Trump attorney David Schoen played several mashup videos of notable Democratic figures calling for supporters to "fight" and clips of them questioning election results in years past, in an effort to paint Trump's rhetoric as normal political speech.

"Every single one of you and everyone of you, that's OK. You didn't do anything wrong. It's a word people use but please stop the hypocrisy," Schoen said.

Schoen argued that the Trump team was denied due process and that the reason for the impeachment is because of Democrats' strong dislike of Trump and the Republican Party.

"The House managers' position really is that when Republican candidates for office claim an election is stolen or the winner is illegitimate it constitutes inciting an insurrection and the candidate should know it. But Democratic Party candidates for public elected office are perfectly entitled to claim the election was stolen or that the winner is illegitimate or to make any other outrageous claim they can. It is their absolute right to do so," he said, pointing to claims around the 2016 election.

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After the Senate decided it will not call any witnesses, lead House manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., was the first to speak during closing arguments. He reiterated the prosecution's case, calling for the conviction of Trump.

"It was suggested by defense counsel that Donald Trump's conduct during the attack, as described in Congresswoman Beutler's statement, is somehow not part of the Constitutional offense for which former President Trump has been charged," Raskin began. "I want to reject that falsehood and that fallacy immediately. After he knew that violence was underway at the Capitol, President Trump took actions that further incited the insurgents to be more inflamed and to take even more extreme, selective, and focused action against Vice President Mike Pence."

Raskin went on to use his time to describe Trump's months-long campaign to discredit the 2020 election results by spreading misinformation, which he argued laid the groundwork for deadly events of Jan. 6. He went on to claim that the former president assembled the mob, incited it and then sent it off to the Capitol during his speech. At every point, Trump sided with the insurrectionists rather than the Congress, Raskin said.

Once when the violence began, Raskin declared that Trump ignored the violence and further incited it by aiming the attacks on his own vice president.

"There has never been a greater betrayal by the president of the United States of his office, and of his oath to the Constitution."

Raskin then took a moment to suggest the GOP used "cancel culture" against one of its leaders, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who voted to impeach Trump in the House.

"Liz Cheney is a hero for standing up for the truth, and resisting this retaliatory cancel culture that she was subjected to."

Raskin emphasized his gratitude toward the Capitol Police, and finished his argument by saying convicting Trump is a vote for the "security of our democracy."

"They attacked this building, they disrupted the peaceful transfer of power, they injured and killed people, convinced that they were acting on his instructions, and with his approval, and protection," Raskin finished. "And while that happened, he further incited them, while failing to defend us. If that's not ground for conviction, if that's not a high crime and misdemeanor against the republic in the United States of America then nothing is. President Trump must be convicted for the safety and security of our democracy and our people."