And then the third part of incitement is, did you take that anger and did you focus it on a particular event? Did you incite an event? And, of course, what we learned was that he rescheduled what was supposed to happen after the installation of the new president to January 6, timed it so the speeches could, again, gear people up, invited people to it who had been violent in the past, and aimed them at the Capitol.
Merkley elaborates on how Trump incited the events of January 6 by timing his speech and inviting violent individuals.
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