https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55640437
Thousands gathered at a "Save America" rally organised to challenge the election result and they listened as Mr Trump spoke to them near the White House.
In a 70-minute address, he exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians had met to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The attack began moments after he took the applause.
Those words have now played a central part in his second impeachment, which happened after a day of debate in Congress.
So what did he say? Here are five key quotes, followed by some legal analysis from Professor Garrett Epps of the University of Baltimore.
The double standard is odious.
ReplyDeleteWe use the word "war" whenever we feel like it. "I'm going to war with him" is such a common expression no one even expects it to involve guns and tanks.
"Fight" is another one. I'm going to fight this in court! No one expects me to show up with a club or gun.
"Violence" is currently being abused. Words are now violence, did you know that?
Every word, every quote, could be understood in this fashion. But as the Mad Hatter taught, words will mean what we want them to mean. And Trump's quotes, benign if uttered by anyone else, will be interpreted in the harshest way possible.
The unprepared and understaffed law enforcement, and its reluctance to shoot the intruders -- aside from St. Ashli -- was part of the plan, too. Right? QAnon would be accepted as truth by Snopes sooner than that wild conjecture.
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