Trump’s legacy will be sending the US Constitution and Democracy to the gallows!
Associated Press
McConnell: Trump 'provoked' Capitol siege, mob 'fed lies'
LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Tue, January 19, 2021, 5:44 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday explicitly placed blame on President Donald Trump for the deadly riot at the Capitol, saying the mob was “fed lies” and that the president and others “provoked” those intent on overturning Democrat Joe Biden’s election.
McConnell's remarks as he opened the Senate were his most severe and public rebuke of outgoing President Donald Trump. The Republican leader vowed a “safe and successful” inauguration of Biden on Wednesday at the Capitol, which is under extremely tight security.
“The mob was fed lies," McConnell said. “They were provoked by the president and other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like.”
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Business Insider
Capitol rioters say Trump told them to do it, which some legal experts say could open him to criminal charges
Thomas Colson
Mon, January 18, 2021, 1:36 PM
Multiple people who stormed the Capitol have claimed they did so on the instructions of President Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported.
Trump instructed his supporters to come to Washington to attend a "Stop The Steal" rally as he sought to overturn the election, promising his supporters that the protest would be "wild."
Leonard M. Niehoff, a First Amendment expert, said that the response to Trump's direct call for supporters to visit the Capitol and "fight" meant the president could be liable.
Other legal experts believe the president would be protected from prosecution under legal precedent.
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Some of the people who stormed the Capitol earlier this month have said did so on the instructions of President Donald Trump, which some legal experts say could open him to criminal charges of incitement, the Washington Post reported.
Multiple people who the FBI arrested in the wake of the failed insurrection on January 6 have told the agency that they did so on the instructions of the president, according to the Post, which cited both court documents and video footage from the failed insurrection.
Trump had instructed his supporters to come to Washington that day to attend a "Stop The Steal" rally as he sought to overturn the election, promising his supporters that the protest would be "wild."
One man reportedly told the FBI that he and his cousin had marched towards the Capitol because "President Trump said to do so" while one man who threw a fire extinguisher at police officers told agents he had been "instructed" to go to the Capitol by the president.
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Kikapu wrote:In Trump’s closing remarks he said, “our traditions will be cherished” and yet he does not show up for the Inauguration to hand over power to Biden.
miltiades wrote:What does anyoneone expect from an utter Arsehole, a compulsive liar, a megalomaniac, a knowall, a selfish fucking idiot. Only the second ever President to not attend the very traditional inaugural ceremony since 1869 and the worst president since year ZERO. What an absolute joke of a president.
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