Political Quotes

“I send a question to the desk. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Nevada, Senator Rosen, submits a question for the House managers. The clerk will read the question. The legislative clerk read as follows: On January 6, the anti-Semitic Proud Boys group that President Trump had told to stand by, laid siege to the Capitol alongside other rioters, including one wearing a ``Camp Auschwitz'' shirt. Is there evidence that President Trump knew or should have known that his tolerance of anti- Semitic hate speech, combined with his own rhetoric, could incite the kind of violence we saw on January 6? Ms. Manager PLASKETT. Mr. President, Senators, Donald Trump has a long history of praising and encouraging violence, as you saw. He has espoused hateful rhetoric himself. He has not just tolerated it, but he has encouraged hateful speech by others. He has refused, as you saw in the September debate--that interview--to condemn extremists and White supremacist groups, like the Proud Boys, and he has, at every opportunity, encouraged and cultivated actual violence by these groups. Yes, he has encouraged actual violence, not just the word ``fight.'' He told groups like the Proud Boys, who had beaten people with baseball bats, to stand by.…”