Rep James Raskin, lead manager, Maryland’s 8th district
incitement, as we’ve discussed, requires an inherently fact-based evidentiary inquiry. And this is what we did. We gave you many hours of specific factual details about, to use Congresswoman Cheney’s words, “How the president summoned the mob, assembled the mob, incited it, lit the match, sending them off to the Capitol where they thought, as they yelled out, that they’d been invited by the President of the United States.” And then of course they unleashed unparalleled violence against our overwhelmed and besieged but heroic police officers….
I’m convinced most senators must be convinced by this overwhelming and specific detail, because most Americans are.
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