"Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?"[1]

Trump is very good at covering his own language and culpability. What were Trump's actions while the mob was storming the Capitol? How long did he wait to even put forth those tweets? In his speech before they stormed the Capitol, he said[2]

"We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore"

but he also said

"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

Does saying the latter negate the former in the minds of the mob that had been primed for nearly two months, without real evidence, to think the election had been stolen?

Does it matter that that there's evidence, presented in court, that Trump _knew_ he had lost the election and further knew that attempts to overturn the result were illegal? [3]

We all saw _with our own eyes_ what the mob did at the Capitol that day. There were people there with differing motivations and different understandings of what they were trying to accomplish by storming the Capitol. They've received differing levels of punishment as a result. But, I find it hard to not view the totality of the evidence presented to date and say that Trump wasn't trying to stay in power through unlawful means (i.e. "attempt a coup").

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur... [2]: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-s... [3]: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/jack-smith-makes-his-ca...

Misinformation. He was actually silent during the insurrection, and he was very strongly encouraged to issue public statements after the attack happened.

"You know, FDR, 16 years — almost 16 years — he was four terms. I don't know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?" also said

The context of that was he was addressing a subset of voters (Christians) who didn’t particularly like him but he needs their votes in this elction, possibly due to the perception that Democrats would somehow cheat without a decisive victory.

Trump says a lot of things and does not choose his words wisely. Or maybe he does and these are all dog whistles. I guess we’ll find out.

Another Trump quote taken totally out of context. He was encouraging people who don't normally vote to get out and vote this time.

People who oppose Trump don't do themselves any favors by misrepresenting this stuff. The guy is a ghoul and says plenty of terrible things that don't need misrepresentation to make him look bad.

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