The people who attacked this building have told us on video, on social media, and now, before the federal courts, exactly what motivated them. They believed what Donald Trump told them, that the election was stolen and that they needed to take action.
Liz Cheney highlights that the attackers were motivated by Trump's claims of a stolen election.
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He knew that bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans.
I think that Donald Trump has ushered violence into our politics in a way that we haven't seen before.
I think that they're doing everything they can to try to distract from the fact that the people who know Donald Trump best... have come out and said very clearly and very directly to the American people that Donald Trump is not fit.
He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.
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