Opening arguments begin Wednesday in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial after an emotional first day that wrenched senators and the nation back to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

House Democratic prosecutors are seeking to link Trump directly to the riot that left five people dead, replaying videos of the rioters trying to stop the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory and Trump’s statements urging them to fight the election results.

Trump is the first president to face an impeachment trial after leaving office and the first to be twice impeached. The riot followed a rally during which Trump urged his supporters to “fight like hell,” words his lawyers say were simply a figure of speech. He is charged with “incitement of insurrection.”

A 67-year-old man unhappy with the health care he’d received opened fire at a clinic Tuesday, killing one person and wounding four others, and bomb technicians were investigating a suspicious device left there and others at a motel where he was staying, authorities said.

All five victims were rushed to the hospital, and a hospital spokeswoman confirmed the one death Tuesday night. Three remained in stable but critical condition and a fourth had been discharged.

Former St. Thomas student Ray Ghansham Persaud, 22, was sentenced Tuesday to one year and one day in prison for calling a bomb threat into the university on Sept. 17, 2019.

Persaud pleaded guilty in September 2020 to calling in one of three 2019 bomb threats — he also was accused of calling on April 17 and Aug. 20 — and was sentenced on one count of “using an instrumentality of interstate commerce to maliciously make a threat to damage and destroy any building, by means of explosives.”

He said he called in the threat because he didn’t have his homework completed and was unprepared for class, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Minnesota said in a statement, citing Persaud’s guilty plea and court documents.

Emily Rudie can be reached at emily.rudie@stthomas.edu.