Jeff Merkley actually said...

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.

02/02/2021

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