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Stacey Plaskett: “President Trump had spent months calling his supporters to a march on a specific day at a specific time in specific…”

On the recordFebruary 15, 2021
President Trump had spent months calling his supporters to a march on a specific day at a specific time in specific places to stop the certification. Some of you have said there`s no way the president could have known how violent the mob would be. That is false because the violence, it was foreseeable.
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Stacey Plaskett
Democratic · Virgin Islands
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Plaskett argues that Trump incited the mob and that the violence was foreseeable.

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