A sad day for America. Everyone knows the trial is nonsense. I have to wonder about our society where people in respectable roles are abusing their positions as much as possible to support their political beliefs. I hope this is as bad as it gets and the pendulum swings the other way now. The road ahead is tough though. The oil reserves, the debt refinancing at insane rates, the illegals, the homeless, the drugs, the wars… This can’t just be incompetence.
I agree... in the sense that Trump has used his position as much as possible to support his political beliefs (if any, this guy changes with the wind). He has appointed judges that are not aligned with the vast majority of the country, he has used his position to harras by air land an sea judges an jurors .. .and their families...
But hey, there is good news for you, there is still a Trump trial pending that will consider how he used his position to arrange an assault on the Capitol that caused several deaths. Will we ever see that trial, or will the judges at the Supreme use their positions to support their political beliefs and prevent it from happening?
You only needed to convince 1 in 12 - Trump could not even get that.
The brainwashing is real. Imagine trying to blame J6 on Trump when he told people not to do it, requested additional security, and begged people to be peaceful. Meanwhile Pelosi denied the security request, Twitter censored his pleas to the people at the government’s request, and Capitol employees killed someone as a result. Imagine how brainwashed you’d have to be to blame Trump. People in this country aren’t well and I don’t know why they push false narratives to punish innocent people. It’s despicable. Thank god for what’s coming. Get your Kleenex ready for November.
You are such a hypocrite. There is a mountain of evidence on Trump not caring for the safety of the Capitol, of video recorded inflammatory speeches and practically not doing anything to help the democratic process of power transfer. The problem with your lies is that they clash so hard with all the evidence as they did in the trial in which Trump has been convicted of 34 charges with overwhelming documentary evidence.
In the whole speech, there is one single time in which he says "peacefully", while all the rest of the speech is the purely inflammatory. He wants now to make the whole case about a line in a thousand of a call to attack the congress. And if there is ever
a trial on the Capitol riots, this is going to be there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Qe4h7KQ7chttps://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trialA call to "pacifically march" but also "to fight like hell or you will have no country"... very fringe, very improper of a President to call people to go to the Capitol.
"We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," [...]
"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
Yes "peacefully", but only once, just in case anyone in the mob thinks he really wants a peaceful demonstration, after telling a thousands people mob of radical supporters from Proud Boys to Oathkeepers- that does not need that much to get angry - that they are being robbed, that they have to march in to the Capitol and that they have to "fight for their country".
Media will not show the magnitude of this crowd. Even I, when I turned on today, I looked, and I saw thousands of people here. But you don't see hundreds of thousands of people behind you because they don't want to show that.
We took them by surprise and this year they rigged an election. They rigged it like they've never rigged an election before
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All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats, which is what they're doing. And stolen by the fake news media. That's what they've done and what they're doing. We will never give up, we will never concede. It doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved
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We will stop the steal.
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We will not let them silence your voices. We're not going to let it happen, I'm not going to let it happen.
(Audience chants: "Fight for Trump.").
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Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down, we're going to walk down.
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Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.
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You will have an illegitimate president. That's what you'll have. And we can't let that happen.
[... this is followed by claim after claim of fraud in several states, including the "dominion machines" conspiracy theory...]
We won in a landslide. This was a landslide. They said it's not American to challenge the election. This the most corrupt election in the history, maybe of the world.
So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol, and we're going to try and give.
The Democrats are hopeless — they never vote for anything. Not even one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help. We're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.
So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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A man of peace my ass.Trump knew perfectly well what was going to happen and
did nothing for hours. You cannot inflame a "thousands of people" mob that they have to fight, take no precaution to protect the elected representatives of the people and claim that "you are a man of peace". This person is unfit for being President... or nearly anything else.
How long 'til Trump decided to do anything at all, as the President of the US he was up to that moment?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_January_6_United_States_Capitol_attackHere’s what President Trump did during the 187 minutes between the end of his speech and when he finally told rioters to go home: For hours, he watched the attack from his TV screen. His channel of choice was Fox News. He issued a few tweets, some on his own inclination and some only at the repeated behest of his daughter and other trusted advisors. He made several phone calls, some to his personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, some to Members of Congress about continuing their objections to the electoral certification, even though the attack was well underway. Here’s what President Trump did not do: He did not call any relevant law enforcement agency to ensure they were working to quell the violence. He did not call the Secretary of Defense; he did not call the Attorney General; he did not call the Secretary of Homeland Security. And for hours on end, he refused the repeated requests—from nearly everyone who talked to him—to simply tell the mob to go home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attackTrump resisted sending the National Guard to quell the mob.[68] Later that afternoon, in a Twitter video, he reasserted the inaccurate claim that the election was "fraudulent", and told his supporters to "go home in peace".
Tell me, why did it take hours to tell people to go in peace while they were killing and injuring the guards in the capitol?
Many people were injured, including 174 police officers. Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months.
Trump resisted sending the National Guard to quell the mob.[68] Later that afternoon, in a Twitter video, he reasserted the inaccurate claim that the election was "fraudulent", and told his supporters to "go home in peace"
So, in your enlightened and "brainwash resistant" opinion, why Trump watched the riots instead of trying to keep people safe? Why did he wait for hours while people got injured, threatened, killed.... Comme on, go for it, rewrite documented history like he tried to rewrite the accounting records...
