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On 2024-03-05 12:06, AlleyCat wrote:
On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 11:07:59 -0800, Alan says...
But those investigations don't consist of inciting people
Show us the language of "incitement".
I can show you the language where Trump was found to have incited an insurrection...
...by the US House of Representatives:
'ARTICLE 1: INCITEMENT OF INSURRECTION
The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives "shall have
the sole Power of Impeachment" and that the President "shall be removed
from Office on Impeachment, for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or
other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Further, section 3 of the 14th
Amendment to the Constitution prohibits any person who has "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against" the United States from "hold[ing] and
office ... under the United States.' In his conduct while President of
the United States — and in violation of his constitutional oath
faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and,
to the best of his ability, preserve, provide, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and in violation of his constitutional
duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed — Donald John
Trump engaged in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by inciting violence
against the Government of the United States, in that:
On January 6, 2021, pursuant to the 12th Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the House
of Representatives, and the Senate met at the United States Capitol for
a Joint Session of Congress to count the votes of the Electoral College.
In the months preceding the Joint Session, President Trump repeatedly
issued false statements asserting that the Presidential election results
were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the
American people or certified by State or Federal officials. Shortly
before the Joint Session commenced, President Trump, addressed a crowd
at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. There, he reiterated false claims
that "we won this election, and we won it by a landslide." He also
willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged — and foreseeably resulted in — lawless action at the Capitol, such as: "if you don't
fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore." Thus
incited by President Trump, members of the crowd he had addressed, in an attempt to, among other objectives, interfere with the Joint Session's
solemn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020
Presidential election, unlawfully breached and vandalized the Capitol,
injured and killed law enforcement personnel, menaced Members of
Congress, the Vice President, and Congressional personnel, and engaged
in other violent, deadly, destructive and seditious acts.'
Let me pull out that last sentence:
'Thus incited by President Trump, members of the crowd he had addressed,
in an attempt to, among other objectives, interfere with the Joint
Session's solemn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 Presidential election, unlawfully breached and vandalized the Capitol,
injured and killed law enforcement personnel, menaced Members of
Congress, the Vice President, and Congressional personnel, and engaged
in other violent, deadly, destructive and seditious acts.'
Game, set and match, loser.
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