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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 15, 2021

Vice President Pence was threatened with death by the president`s supporters because he rejected President Trump`s demand that he overturn the election.

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 15, 2021

Although the outcome and the vote was heartbreaking in itself, we won because, in fact, as Joe said, Congressman Neguse said, a majority of the Senate voted in our favor.

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 15, 2021

I believe that the information that we put out there, the clear and overwhelming evidence that we showed will, in fact, vindicate us in history that this was the most corrupt president in our history.

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 15, 2021

we felt that we had made our case overwhelmingly, was able to get in the additional statement and rested our case.

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 15, 2021

President Trump had spent months calling his supporters to a march on a specific day at a specific time in specific places to stop the certification. Some of you have said there`s no way the president could have known how violent the mob…

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 14, 2021

He knew who these people were. He perpetuated their anger and their violence and then directed it at the Capitol. That`s what we proved.

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 11, 2021

Everything that followed was his doing. And although he could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence, he didn’t.

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 10, 2021

On December 19, President Trump tweeted his Save the Date for January 6th. He told his supporters to come to D.C. where a big protest the day billing it as wild.

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 10, 2021

This year is 20 years since the attacks of September 11th, and almost every day I remember that 44 Americans gave their lives to stop the plane that was headed to this capitol building.

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 10, 2021

President knew the supporters were primed for violence, the words had spurred them to violence multiple times.

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 10, 2021

For anyone who says Donald Trump didn’t know the violence he was inciting, I ask you to consider his supporters tried to drive a bus off the highway in the middle of the day to intimidate his opponent’s campaign workers and his response…

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 10, 2021

He knew who he was calling and the violence they were capable of. And he still gave that marching orders to go to the Capitol and, 'fight like hell and stop the steal.'

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 10, 2021

The truth is usually seen and rarely heard. Truth is truth, whether denied or not. And the truth is, President Trump had spent months calling his supporters to a march on a specific day, at a specific time, in specific places, to stop the…

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Feb 9, 2021

They were coming at the urging of Donald Trump to keep Congress a separate branch of government from certifying the results of a presidential election.

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Jan 21, 2021

Today, I rise in support of the requested waiver of the Secretary of Defense nominee, retired four-star General Lloyd S. Austin, III. President Biden recognizes the need to have the most qualified individuals in his Cabinet to right the…

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Jan 15, 2021

What we're hearing and what has happened, President Trump has been engaged in a prolonged effort over many years, and culminating in what we saw on January 6. But that prolonged effort was based on lies, was based on falsehoods.

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Stacey Plaskett
@staceyplaskett· Democratic · VI· Jan 15, 2021

I have heard through reporting that that might have taken place. And I'm waiting anxiously to hear the investigation, other information that comes out about that, as well as other activities that members of Congress may have been engaged…

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