Impeachment trial hears months-long history of Trump’s ‘big lie’ that inspired violence

House impeachment managers presenting the case against Donald Trump for his role inciting the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January have charted an argument that spans the former president's months-long effort to undermine election results as "stolen" from his supporters, months before ballots were cast.

Impeachment managers acting as prosecutors in the former president's second impeachment trial in the US Senate have chronicled the president's big lie of election fraud that fuelled his supporters' assault on the Capitol building on 6 January.

Earlier that day, then-president Trump told supporters that the election was "pure theft" and to "make no mistake – this election was stolen from you, from me and from the country."

But impeachment managers repeated that the incitement charge against Mr Trump was never about just one speech.