Damned by his own words: Democrats follow Trump's wide-open multimedia trail | David Smith's sketch

Sketch: House impeachment managers have no trouble painting a picture of Trump's well-documented role in Capitol attack

As US president, Donald Trump seemed be talking and tweeting 24 hours a day. That has thrown his near total absence from public life over the past three weeks into sharp relief. The Silence of the Tweets.

It also means that when clips of Trump's rally speeches filled the Senate chamber on day two of his impeachment trial on Wednesday, his voice was jarring and jangling in the ear, like a blowhard from a cruder, coarser time.