Political Quotes

“I send a question to the desk. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator will submit it. The question from Senator Schumer with Senator Feinstein is directed to the House managers. The clerk will read it. The legislative clerk read the question as follows: Isn't it the case that the violent attack and siege on the Capitol on January 6 would not have happened if not for the conduct of President Trump? The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The House managers have up to 5 minutes. Mr. Manager CASTRO of Texas. Good afternoon, everybody. To answer your question very directly, Donald Trump assembled the mob. He assembled the mob, and he lit the flame. Everything that followed was because of his doing, and although he could have immediately and forcibly intervened to stop the violence, he never did. In other words, this violent, bloody insurrection that occurred on January 6 would not have occurred but for President Trump. The evidence we presented in trial makes this absolutely clear. This attack, as we said, didn't come from one random speech, and it didn't happen by accident, and that mob didn't come out of thin air. Before the election, Donald Trump spread lie after lie about potential fraud--an election, remember, that hadn't even happened yet. Months before the election took place, he was saying it was rigged and that it was going to be stolen. All of his supporters believed that the only way he was going to lose is if the election was stolen, if the election was rigged.…”