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."

-ABC News' Trish Turner

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.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin