"It is the time for unity and healing and focusing on the interests of the nation as a whole," Trump attorney David Schoen said. "We should all be seeking to cool temperatures, calm passions, rise above partisan lines."

It's worth noting that Trump's attorneys have repeatedly singled out Democrats, both in the Senate, and the House managers themselves, and made increasingly personal criticisms in their effort to pugnaciously defend Trump, after Democrats went out of their way not to impugn GOP senators who supported Trump's efforts to overturn the election. Democrats in the House and Senate were featured in edited videos used by Trump's legal team.

"If it is not about the words but about the big lie of a stolen election, then why isn't House manager Raskin guilty since he tried to overturn the 2016 election?" Trump attorney Michael van der Veen asked.

-ABC News' Benjamin Siegel

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.