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Facing likely impeachment — and the potential for criminal liability — for helping incite last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, President Trump on Tuesday sought to defend himself, saying the speech he gave at a rally shortly before the siege was “totally appropriate.”
Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews before departing for Alamo, Texas, the president was asked whether he accepted any personal responsibility for the events that left at least five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer, after a violent mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building.
“So if you read my speech, and many people have done it, and I’ve seen it both in the papers and in the media, on television, it’s been analyzed and people thought what I said was totally appropriate,” Trump replied. “And if you look at what other people have said, politicians at a high level, about the riots during the summer, the horrible riots in Portland and Seattle and various other places, that was a real problem, what they said. But they’ve analyzed my speech and my words and my final paragraph, my final sentence and everybody to the T thought it was totally appropriate.”
The issue you are going to have is that many politicians on record have supported deadly "peaceful" protests with much stronger language and no action was taken by Congress in those cases. Not sure why you would hold Trump accountable but not Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Bernie Sanders, etc. when their rhetoric has incited people to violence numerous times.
If you are going to hold them all accountable, then do it. You have a lot of Dems that will have to be removed from office.
The issue you are going to have is that many politicians on record have supported deadly "peaceful" protests with much stronger language and no action was taken by Congress in those cases. Not sure why you would hold Trump accountable but not Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Bernie Sanders, etc. when their rhetoric has incited people to violence numerous times.
If you are going to hold them all accountable, then do it. You have a lot of Dems that will have to be removed from office.
Yeah it's about time Democrats shut their hypocritical and dishonest mouths. It's getting a little sickening and too much to take at this point. They just can't seem to stop themselves.
Facing likely impeachment — and the potential for criminal liability — for helping incite last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, President Trump on Tuesday sought to defend himself, saying the speech he gave at a rally shortly before the siege was “totally appropriate.”
Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews before departing for Alamo, Texas, the president was asked whether he accepted any personal responsibility for the events that left at least five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer, after a violent mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol building.
“So if you read my speech, and many people have done it, and I’ve seen it both in the papers and in the media, on television, it’s been analyzed and people thought what I said was totally appropriate,” Trump replied. “And if you look at what other people have said, politicians at a high level, about the riots during the summer, the horrible riots in Portland and Seattle and various other places, that was a real problem, what they said. But they’ve analyzed my speech and my words and my final paragraph, my final sentence and everybody to the T thought it was totally appropriate.”
Trump often says "they" have done many things and "they" remain unknown to anyone other than Trump's imagination.
The issue you are going to have is that many politicians on record have supported deadly "peaceful" protests with much stronger language and no action was taken by Congress in those cases. Not sure why you would hold Trump accountable but not Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Bernie Sanders, etc. when their rhetoric has incited people to violence numerous times.
If you are going to hold them all accountable, then do it. You have a lot of Dems that will have to be removed from office.
OK ... quote one President of the United States that has used 'stronger language'. I'd like exact quotes please. Whataboutism is getting old. No doubt there are a thousand examples where some religious leader, some politician has put their foot in their mouth in any number of ways. But a President? Someone that by definition should be even keeled and moderate in order to find common ground an lead.
I cant find where anything he said directed or even encouraged the behavior that followed.
He cheered them on with his rally right before they marched on the Capitol. He called them patriots and said he loved them after it was all said and done. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to connect those dots.
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