Rhetoric fueled rioters
By Rosalind S. Helderman, Rachel Weiner and Spencer S. Hsu
Feb. 7, 2021 at 5:19 p.m. EST
Storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was no spur-of-the-moment decision for Jessica Marie Watkins, an Ohio bartender and founder of a small, self-styled militia ...
Watkins was clear about why she was heading to Washington. “Trump wants all able bodied patriots to come,” she wrote to one of her alleged co-conspirators on Dec. 29, eight days before prosecutors say they invaded the building ...
The question of what exactly motivated Watkins and other alleged rioters .. will be among the central questions .. the Senate will consider ...
... Court documents show that more than two dozen people charged in the attack specifically cited Trump and his calls to gather that day in describing on social media or in conversations with others why they decided to take action by coming to Washington ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-incitement-rioters/2021/02/07/7a6f0c64-6701-11eb-8c64-9595888caa15_story.html
