Lincoln Project drops scathing new ad on Ted Cruz and other GOP senators amid Trump's impeachment trial

In a new ad that was released this Wednesday, the anti-Trump Republican group Lincoln Project took aim at GOP senators who are looking to absolve former President Trump of accountability for his rhetoric in the run-up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6., even as a murdered Capitol police officer lies in state at the Rotunda.

"It was a mob fed a diet of lies, conspiracy, and propaganda, fantasies of stolen elections," the ad's narrator states. "Now, the people who fed that mob are trying to escape responsibility."

Watch the full ad below: