“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” President Trump 1/6/21
or misrepresentations,
which means
... Lie # 1:
“This trial arises from President Donald J. Trump’s incitement of insurrection against the Republic he swore to protect.”
Fact:
President Trump did no such thing.
“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Lie # 2:
“In a grievous betrayal of his Oath of Office, President Trump incited a violent mob to attack the United States Capitol during the Joint Session, thus impeding Congress’s confirmation of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as the winner of the presidential election.”
Fact:
... Saying “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” is hardly a “grievous betrayal” of the presidential oath of office. That is a lie.
Lie # 3:
“He spent months asserting, without evidence, that he won in a ‘landslide’ and that the election was ‘stolen.’”
Fact:
Donald Trump produced volumes of evidence...
Lie # 4:
“The crowd was armed, angry and dangerous.”
Fact:
I was there. In the front row. There was rock music being played. People all around me were dancing. Laughing. I have the video that I took. ...
Lie # 8:
“It is impossible to imagine the events of January 6 occurring without President Trump creating a powder keg, striking a match and then seeking personal advantage from the ensuing havoc.”
Fact:
Speaking out using First Amendment rights of free speech to demand an honest election investigation is not “creating a powder keg.”
Lie # 9:
“In the words of Representative Liz Cheney, the House Republican Conference Chair: ‘The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. ..."
Fact:
... The President ... invited his supporters – Americans one and all – to “peacefully and patriotically” exercise their First Amendment “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Lie #12:
“A President who violently attacks the democratic process has no right to participate in it.”
Fact:
Calling for a peaceful and patriotic protest is not “violently” attacking the democratic process. ...
Lie#23:
That a “Trump train” of Trump-flag-flying vehicles that surrounded a moving Biden-Harris campaign bus on a Texas highway “could easily have killed a busload of innocent campaign staff.” The moment is described as an “attack.”
Fact:
... The only incident, according to local police, was that a Biden staffer crashed their car into a Trump vehicle. ...
Lie #24:
Trump “refused to condemn” “dangerous and threatening conduct.”
Fact:
Trump said: “I want to be very clear, I unequivocally condemn the violence that we saw last week.”
Lie #28:
That Trump used “highly inflammatory rhetoric-exactly calculated to incite violence given what had been reported about the crowd.”
Fact:
... the crowd in front of the President was calm, celebratory, dancing, cheering. There was zero incitement to violence. ...
Lie #29:
Trump did not “urge peaceful demonstration.”
Fact:
The President specifically said to protest “peacefully and patriotically.”
Lie #32:
“One insurrectionist paraded the Confederate battle flag through the Capitol halls – an act that thousands of troops gave their lives to prevent during the Civil War.”
Fact:
The Confederacy was founded and led by Democrats. There are 11 statues in the US Capitol right now of former Confederates – every one of them a Democrat. ... The assertion that the Confederate flag has any connection to Republican President Trump or the Republican Party is a lie.
Lie #36:
The President “never issued any statement condemning threatened attacks on the inauguration or repudiating violence against the lawful government of the United States of America.”
Fact:
... He requested protests to be conducted “peacefully and patriotically” before they took place, and condemned the attacks as “heinous.”
Lie #37:
“…the House voted to impeach President Trump with bipartisan support on charges he supported an insurrection.”
Fact:
There were only 10 Republican votes out of a total of 211 Republicans in the House. That is decidedly not bipartisan.
Lie # 45:
That the President “placed his own interest in retaining power above the national interest in free and fair elections.”
Fact:
The President stood up to oppose an unfair election that was run in some states by officials who deliberately broke state law and state constitutions.
Lie #49:
The President provoked the January 6th attack, which in turn has served as ‘a significant driver of violence’ that “ ‘inspires extremists in more sporadic, lone-actor or small-cell violence’ against targets including ‘racial, ethnic, or religious minorities and institutions, law enforcement, and government officials and buildings.”
Fact:
Long before January 6th, the President was denouncing the violence perpetrated in cities across the country by the far-left Antifa and Black Lives Matter movement, the latter headed by people who identified themselves as “trained Marxists.” Democrats – beginning with Joe Biden – spent months refusing to denounce the violence. ...
Lie #56:
The House acted within its constitutional responsibilities in “swiftly and emphatically approving an article of impeachment.”
Fact:
It is totally unconstitutional to impeach a (former) President who is no longer in office.
Lie #58:
The President “failed to take charge of a swift law enforcement response….”
Fact:
... This was the job of the Capitol Police – run by the Congress. ...
Lie #63:
The First Amendment protects private citizens from the government.”
Fact:
Donald Trump is a private citizen. And the would-be impeachers are the government.
Lie # 72:
“President Trump falsely asserted that he won the 2020 election and then sought to overturn it.” And: “Instead, he summoned a mob to Washington, exhorted them into a frenzy, and aimed them like a loaded cannon down Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Fact:
... Democrats refused to take up the suggestion of Senator Cruz that a national commission be set up before the inauguration to investigate the results. The only reason to fear that is the real possibility that President Trump was right. ..."
