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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe House Managers need to submit this posit:
Although Trump did not make specific requests to storm the Capitol and overthrow Congress, his carefully chosen words in his "Stop the Steal" rally were meant to have precisely the same effect without incriminating himself.
The only problem is that you have to assume Trump has the brains to come up with such a scheme. He has always talked off the cuff without thinking. Maybe a smart advisor helped him.
DIVINEprividence
(443 posts)If you are marching to the Capitol to stop the steal it means what we all saw, an insurrection to prevent the certification of electors
Walleye
(31,110 posts)They need to harp on the fact that trumps unpatriotic and unlawful actions took five lives, that these people would still be with us if he had done what a normal, honorable American president wouldve done. Defense is going to try to concentrate on just the speech. The incitement was over a period of weeks not an hour and a half.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)not enough Repuke Senators will care. They will be looking out for their own futures. You have to thoroughly disprove all of the defense assertions. But I don't have that expectation. All I can hope for is that enough Americans will see the hypocrisy and vote them out.