Updated at 6:55 p.m.

WASHINGTON – The Jan. 6 riot that sent Congress into hiding was the direct result of Donald Trump’s “call to arms” to supporters he hoodwinked into believing the election was stolen, House managers argued Wednesday on Day 2 of his second impeachment trial.

Using security camera footage not seen before, they showed police and rioters brawling as the mob came perilously close to trapping countless lawmakers, and Trump did nothing to stop them.

“On January, 6, President Trump left everyone in this Capitol for dead,” said Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, one of the prosecutors.

The House team spent hours reconstructing the frantic events of that day, weaving Trump’s many provocations to violence with dramatic video of rioters pouring into the Capitol after bashing in windows with stolen riot shields.

They took pains to make it personal for the senators sitting in judgment.

“These attackers stood right where you are.… They rifled through your desks and they desecrated this place,” Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., told senators. “It can’t be that the commander in chief can incite a lawless, bloody insurrection and then… just get away with it.”

“They’re throwing metal poles at us!” an officer shouted during the melee, shortly before the Secret Service whisked the vice president out of the Senate as rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence!”

Pence glanced back as his security detail hustled him down a staircase. Trump had trained his wrath on him for refusing to overturn President Joe Biden’s election.

This, the impeachment managers said over and over, was “Trump’s mob.”

It was a gut-wrenching presentation, especially for anyone who lived through it as nearly all of the 100 senators sitting in judgment had. But few Republicans are willing to blame Trump for the attack, and 17 would have to join with Democrats to reach the two-thirds needed for a conviction.

“There are insurrectionists who attempted to affect the peaceful transfer of power, and that should give anyone who loves our republic great pause,” said Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Republican, during a break in the trial.

Trump is the only president impeached twice, and the only one put on trial after leaving office.

Democrats had 16 hours over Wednesday and Thursday to make their case. The defense side gets the next two days for rebuttal.

There is no dispute that Trump summoned the crowd that descended on the Capitol as Congress counted the Electoral College votes, hoping to somehow overturn his defeat.

His culpability for the violence that ensued hinges largely on his comments at a rally just before the riot.

His lawyer Rudy Giuliani warmed up the crowd with an overt call to violence: “Let’s have trial by combat.” Trump lauded him moments later in a 70-minute speech.

“If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.… You’ll never take back our country with weakness,” Trump told the rally moments before the joint session of Congress began to certify Biden’s victory. “Make no mistake, this election was stolen from you, from me, from the country....You don’t concede when there’s theft involved.... We must ‘stop the steal.’”

‘Trump’s mob’

At one point, as Trump’s defenders emphasize, he urged a “peaceful” march. Impeachment managers scrubbed the 11,000 word speech and found no other hint of nonviolence, and 20 calls to “fight.”

“The president used the speech as a call to arms. It was not rhetorical,” said Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo.

“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” Trump tweeted on Dec. 19, at 1:42 a.m. “Be there, will be wild!”

That was one of dozens of Trump tweets and comments the House managers dusted off to show he not only knew violence was possible, he goaded supporters to make it a certainty.

The afternoon before the riot, Trump warned Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, GOP leader Mitch McConnell and others who had by then accepted Biden’s victory to heed his supporters pouring into Washington.

“They won’t stand for a landslide election victory to be stolen,” Trump tweeted.

As the insurgents raged through the Capitol, aides and others pleaded with Trump to publicly call off the attack, to insist his supporters stand down and leave the Capitol. Instead, he posted a video empathizing with the insurgents, without denouncing them: “I know your pain….We had an election that was stolen from us.”

“He didn’t want them to stop. He wanted them to stay and stop the certification,” Castro said.

Chilling footage

The security camera footage was the most jarring element of the presentation.

Senators watched themselves and colleagues running for safety as the mob swarmed nearby.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, now the majority leader, jogged out of a garage flanked by armed security. Second later they hustled back, their path cut off.

Insurrectionist in tactical gear rifled through senators’ recently abandoned desks. One carried a handful of plastic handcuffs.

“If the doors to this chamber had been breached, just minutes earlier, imagine what they could have done,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.

A camera mounted outside the main doors to the Senate showed an officer stop Sen. Mitt Romney from running headlong into the oncoming mob. The Utah Republican quickly retreated from the famed Ohio Clock Corridor, saved by Officer Eugene Goodman.

Moments later, the same officer heroically lured an angry mob away from another corridor that senators were using as a route to safety.

Rioters hunted for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, menacingly calling out, “Nancy! Where are you Nancy?”

“They did it because Donald Trump sent them on this mission,” argued impeachment manager Stacey Plaskett, a delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands. “We know from the rioters themselves that if they had found Speaker Pelosi, they would have killed her.”

Day 2 of the historic trial opened precisely three weeks after Trump’s term expired. Having refused to accept defeat graciously, the 45th president was already at his resort in Palm Beach, Fla.

Biden took his own oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign or domestic, on the very spot where thousands of angry rioters converged, at Trump’s urging, three weeks earlier.

Lawmakers found it troubling to relive the riot, but not persuasive on the issue of Trump’s guilt.

“It’s horrible. It’s horrible. It’s terrible to see it again. Everybody who was involved in it should be prosecuted,” Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri told reporters during a break in the trial. But “let’s be honest. We know where this is headed. There’s nothing new here. This is going to result in an acquittal, because we don’t have jurisdiction.”

Hawley and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas led the effort to nullify Biden’s win. Nearly a fifth of the Republican senators joined that effort.

For Democrats, Trump’s guilt is apparent, despite the GOP reluctance to hold him accountable.

“Donald Trump built that mob,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. “It was a coup attempt.”

House managers started with Trump’s “big lie” that the election was stolen. Even before ballots were cast, Trump planted seeds of the anger that came to head on Jan. 6, warning for months that only “massive fraud” could cost his victory.

Castro showed a series of clips in which Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he lost, and many others in which he falsely claimed to have won.

“All of us in this room have run an election and it’s no fun to lose. I’m a Texas Democrat. We’ve lost a few elections over the years,” Castro said. “Can you imagine telling your supporters that the only way you could possibly lose is if an American election was rigged and stolen?”

To tie the violence to Trump, House managers showed comments from a number of people arrested for taking part in the riot, among them a Realtor from Frisco, Jenna Ryan.

“I thought I was following my president,” she told KTVT-TV (Channel 11). “I was doing what he asked us to do.”

House managers recalled an attack on a Texas highway to remind senators of Trump’s penchant for glorifying violence.

The Friday before Election Day, supporters in pickups swarmed a bus ferrying Biden campaign workers, and congressional candidate Wendy Davis. “These patriots did nothing wrong,” Trump tweeted in response to news that the FBI was investigating the incident.

“Engaging in violence, for him, made them patriots,” Plaskett said.

‘Not a single court’

Rep. Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., recounted the dozens of courts that rebuffed Trump’s claims of widespread fraud and rejected requests to toss out millions of votes “so that he could steal the election for himself.”

“Not a single court, not a single judge agreed that the election results were invalid or should be invalidated,” she said.

She recounted Trump’s efforts to bully state elections officials around the country. In Georgia, the district attorney in Atlanta’s Fulton County announced a criminal investigation on Wednesday into Trump’s efforts to pressure the Republican secretary of state to “find” enough votes to reverse his defeat.

The House referred to that phone call in the article of impeachment.

“Trump did this across state after state,” Dean said. “Public officials like you and me received death threats... All because Trump wanted to remain in power.”

As a former president, Trump obviously cannot be removed from office. But the Senate could bar him from holding any federal office in the future, which would preclude him from seeking a second term in 2024, and erase some of the shadow he casts over the Republican Party.

“He assembled thousands of violent people,” Dean said. “He pointed to us, lit the fuse and sent an angry mob to fight the perceived enemy.”