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Jeff Merkley: “Well, I think the main witness is going to be the tapes of President Trump himself, what he said, and both verbally and…”

On the recordFebruary 2, 2021
Well, I think the main witness is going to be the tapes of President Trump himself, what he said, and both verbally and, in the context of video, of how he was doing it. This is about, did he incite an insurrection, and the connections between everything he said and urged and the context of everything else he did to try to promote this mega-lie, the stolen election, that is going to keep reverberating as a challenge for America for a long time to come.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon
Source
msnbc.com

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Merkley discusses the significance of Trump's own words as the main evidence in the trial regarding the incitement of insurrection.

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