Carl Levin: “For 2 months, Donald Trump used the biggest megaphone in the world to…”

On the recordJanuary 13, 2021

For 2 months, Donald Trump used the biggest megaphone in the world to organize a campaign of outright lies to overturn a free and fair election. On January 6, he summoned and incited a mob of domestic terrorists to fight like hell and sent them to ransack this Capitol in order to prevent us from formalizing his election loss. It was a grotesque orgy of deadly white supremacism, anti-Semitism, and strongman rule. Today, we will do our duty and vote to remove the author of this horrifying chapter and banish him from public service. {time} 1430

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Carl Levin

Democratic · Michigan

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Jan 13, 2021

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