As I stood up and said clearly at the time, the election was settled.īut that reality just opened a new chapter of even wilder and more unfounded claims. I defended the President’s right to bring any complaints to our legal system. It was also the entire manufactured atmosphere of looming catastrophe the increasingly wild myths about a reverse landslide election that was being stolen in some secret coup by our now-President. It is not just his endorsement of remarks in which an associate urged "trial by combat." The issue is not only the President’s intemperate language on Jan. And their having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole which the defeated President kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth. The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their President. Let me put that to the side for one moment and reiterate something I said weeks ago: There is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day. The House accused the former President of, quote, "incitement." That is a specific term from the criminal law. Former President Trump’s actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty.
They did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth - because he was angry he’d lost an election. They built a gallows and chanted about murdering the Vice President.
They tried to hunt down the Speaker of the House.
They used terrorism to try to stop a specific piece of democratic business they did not like.įellow Americans beat and bloodied our own police. American citizens attacked their own government.
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