cowboypack02 said:
WP said:
Steve Williams said:
Was this the riot inducing speech? I literally have never heard it.
Steve, you are kidding right? You have been my most respected person on all Pack things for a long time and always the voice of reason. If you've been sucked into the insane conspiracy/insurrectionist/traitor land, my faith in humanity is going to be permanently damaged. Please say it isn't so.
I actually think Steve raises a great point.
I know that I have posted several times since last week about what other democrats have said that I viewed as worse than anything Trump has said or done. I also know that there are a lot of people here that believe that Trump told people to go out and storm the capital and riot. I and several other posters stand on the complete opposite side and believe that Trump didn't do anything outside of the ordinary.
Can anyone provide the passage from his speech that told everyone to go out and riot? I don't mean what the media or other politicians have said that Trump said, but Trump's actual words? I find it odd that as often at the media like to play video of Trump looking less than presidential I haven't seen a video of what he said yet.
I've taken the last few days to read through the speech and I have not found where Trump is telling people to riot. I read the part of the speech where he told people that they were all going to walk down to the capital, but that it was going to be "patriotic and peaceful". I don't think that goes outside the bound of normal and we've had tons marches on the capital
Y'all with the "point to the sentence where Trump incited a riot" need not be myopic about this.
One word or sentence in a speech doesn't incite a riot. Take a step back and look at the totality and chronology and buildup of emotion.
Six months of STOLEN...RIGGED...FRAUD...FAKE...CORRUPT...LANDSLIDE...STOLEN...RIGGED...FRAUDULENT...STOLEN...FAKE...FRAUD...LANDSLIDE...CORRUPT...STOLEN...STOLEN...
Then leading up to the riot, encouraging his followers to come to Washington for a 'Save America' march.
"Be there, will be wild!!!"
Then he holds a rally, repeating all the same STOLEN...RIGGED...FRAUD...FAKE accusations without any evidence.
Then, "Fight much harder"
"Show strength"
"When you catch somebody in a fraud,
you are allowed to go by very different rules."
"if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election"
This all built to a crescendo where his followers were thinking this was Trump's metaphorical (and some of his 'Patriots' thought, literal) last stand. If the team was just strong and fought hard, and Mike Pence and Congress got the message, they could still win the election! Of course, none of this was true.
When you're frothy, angry, and told to 'show strength', 'fight much harder,' and do all that playing by 'very different rules,' it's no leap to discuss incitement.
The crowd thought they could be effectual if they were just strong and fought hard. What do those phrases even mean in the context of a political march?
It's clear what the mob thought they meant.