Here's how I know the President didn't play a role in that, because if the President would have told people to sack the Capitol or attack the Capitol, it wouldn't have been a couple thousand, it would have been a million.
Brian Mast: “Here's how I know the President didn't play a role in that, because if the President would have told people to sack the…”
On the recordFebruary 24, 2021
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Brian Mast defends former President Trump by suggesting that if he had incited the Capitol attack, the turnout would have been much larger.
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