How exactly did Trump incite violence? He condemned the insurgents. He said today that killing cops should result in the death penalty. How exactly is he inciting violence?
He called for the violence. He celebrated the violence. To the people who perpetrated the violence, he told them 'I love you.'
He is the cause of the violence, and continues to call for more violence.
He uses the word "fight" 23 times during the 1 1/4 hour rambling speech. This is what he says towards the end:
“Something’s wrong here. Something’s really wrong. Can’t have happened.” And we fight. We fight like Hell and if you don’t fight like Hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore....
So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’r
You can interpret fight many ways. It's a stretch to think he meant physical violence, especially since he condemned that.
Incitement is all about what a reasonable person knew or should have known. In this case, Trump absolutely should have known (and maybe knew) that a percentage of the people he was speaking to were ready for violence. He'd been feeding them a steady diet of "Your government has been subverted and democracy no longer works" for months, and QAnon and associated conspiracies had been preparing them for longer. The Proud Boys openly embrace violence, and had announced their intention to be there and be ready.
Had he gotten lucky and no violence happened, this would have been written off as yet more dangerously irresponsible rhetoric that "only" undermined confidence in democracy. But he didn't get lucky, and his dangerously-irresponsible rhetoric led to deaths, to a crowd who broke into the capitol looking to hang Mike Pence, etc., etc., etc.,
Any reasonable man would have focused on calming and reducing the chance of violence, but Trump did none of that. Oh, he threw in the occasional phrases about being peaceful, salted lightly into his aggressive rhetoric, heavily laden with violent metaphors. But a responsible person would have flipped that 180 degrees. Trump chose to continue pushing and the outcome, while not guaranteed, was totally predictable.
I can see you people bought into the leftist nonsense and fairy tales
Like a typical Trumpette, you obviously care about the rule of law only when it's convenient to your goals or interests. This is one of the things that separates Trumpettes from true conservatives.
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He uses the word "fight" 23 times during the 1 1/4 hour rambling speech. This is what he says towards the end:
“Something’s wrong here. Something’s really wrong. Can’t have happened.” And we fight. We fight like Hell and if you don’t fight like Hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore. ...
So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’r
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You can interpret fight many ways. It's a stretch to think he meant physical violence, especially since he condemned that.
Incitement is all about what a reasonable person knew or should have known. In this case, Trump absolutely should have known (and maybe knew) that a percentage of the people he was speaking to were ready for violence. He'd been feeding them a steady diet of "Your government has been subverted and democracy no longer works" for months, and QAnon and associated conspiracies had been preparing them for longer. The Proud Boys openly embrace violence, and had announced their intention to be there and be ready.
Had he gotten lucky and no violence happened, this would have been written off as yet more dangerously irresponsible rhetoric that "only" undermined confidence in democracy. But he didn't get lucky, and his dangerously-irresponsible rhetoric led to deaths, to a crowd who broke into the capitol looking to hang Mike Pence, etc., etc., etc.,
Any reasonable man would have focused on calming and reducing the chance of violence, but Trump did none of that. Oh, he threw in the occasional phrases about being peaceful, salted lightly into his aggressive rhetoric, heavily laden with violent metaphors. But a responsible person would have flipped that 180 degrees. Trump chose to continue pushing and the outcome, while not guaranteed, was totally predictable.
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I can see you people bought into the leftist nonsense and fairy tales
Like a typical Trumpette, you obviously care about the rule of law only when it's convenient to your goals or interests. This is one of the things that separates Trumpettes from true conservatives.