"On January 6th, Trump knew the crowd was angry. He knew the crowd was armed. He sent them to the Capitol anyway."
"President Trump's tweet drew tens of thousands of Americans to Washington to form the angry crowd that would be transformed on January the 6th into a violent mob."
"When Donald Trump sent out his tweet, he became the first President ever to call for a crowd to descend on the Capital City to block the constitutional transfer of power."
"On Friday, December 18th, his team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit. They proposed the immediate mass seizure of state election machines by the U.S. Military."
"Donald Trump was, of course, the central figure who said everything into motion. He was the person, Rob, who identified January 6th as the date for a big protest. And he announced that in his tweet, i..."
"He set off an explosive chain reaction amongst his followers."
"You might imagine that our Founders would have been shocked to learn that an American President would one day come to embrace and excuse political violence against our own institutions."
"The Honorable Jamie Raskin, a Representative in Congress From the State of Maryland"
"Even an agreed-upon complete lack of evidence could not stop President Trump, Mark Meadows, and their allies from trying to overturn the results of a free and fair election."
"Never before in American history had a President called for a crowd to come contest the counting of electoral votes by Congress."
"In fact, to try to stop the counting of electoral college votes in a presidential election he had lost. Absolutely unprecedented, nothing like that had ever happened before."