WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump’s legal team has sharply distorted its remarks at last month’s Capitol rally, taking advantage of a single case in which Trump spoke of a peaceful protest in his “hell fight.” , tirade of anger and discontent.
Trump’s attorney, Michael van der Veen, has accused House Democrat prosecutors of showing selectively edited scenes about violence and Trump’s words on January 6th.
However, he ignored the incendiary substance and tenor of that staging speech, as well as the president’s words of affection for the attackers later, while they were still looking for MPs and dismissing their cabinets. He also ignored the fact that all of Trump’s challenges that day and weeks ago centered on the lie of stolen elections.
Another Trump lawyer, Bruce Castor, denied that the siege was an insurrection, saying it was an “art term” that was not deserved by the events of that day. In fact, it is a term for dictionaries and legal texts, and what happened on January 6 was an insurrection.
A look at the rhetoric in the process of ousting the Senate, in which Trump is accused of inciting the siege of the Capitol before Congress claims defeat against Joe Biden in the presidential election:
VAN DER VEEN: “No thinking person could seriously believe that the speech of the President of Ellipse on January 6 was in any way an incitement to violence or insurrection. … Nothing in the text can ever be interpreted as encouraging, tolerant or attractive to illegal activities of any kind. Far from promoting insurrection against the United States, the president’s statements explicitly encouraged those present to exercise their rights peacefully and patriotically. ”
FACTS: This characterization does not resemble Trump’s speech. For more than an hour, Trump supported the case that he and his supporters at the rally were “deceived” and “deceived” in the “rigged” elections by a “criminal enterprise” of some of the “weak” lawmakers the insurgents were about to face.
As for Trump encouraging “explicitly” non-violence, as the lawyer said, the president’s only gesture in the speech was this passing remark, lost in the winds of anger that day: “I know everyone here will go soon to the Capitol building to make your voices heard peacefully and patriotically. ”
There were no other approximate calls for calm, order, or respect for the institutions that Trump attacked in his speech as a “swamp.”
“It was the only time, the only time, President Trump used the word ‘peaceful’ or any suggestion of non-violence,” he said during the rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, one of the managers of the resignations. “President Trump has used the word ‘fight’ or ‘fight’ 20 times.”
Her number is correct. In addition, Trump thanked supporters when they chanted, “Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump! Fight for Trump! ”
Certainly not all of Trump’s “fighting” words were about the march to the Capitol. Some were about the political struggle to reverse a fair and certified choice he lost or about his other struggles in Washington.
But he sent his followers to the Chapter with these words: “If you don’t fight like hell, you won’t have a country.”
That was after his lawyer Rudy Giuliani had told the crowd: “Let’s have a trial through battle.”
This, after Trump summoned his followers to Washington, first of all with the promise: “Be there, it will be wild!”
At the rally, Trump woke up his followers with words like these:
“Let the weak go out.” This is a time for power. “This was about the Republicans in Congress, who did not go along with his effort to overturn the election.
– “You have to be strong and you have to be strong.” This was specific to the marches.
– “When you catch someone cheating, you are allowed to follow very different rules.” Despite this observation, van der Veen said on Friday that the “whole premise” of Trump’s rally speech was that the democratic process should “take place in accordance with the letter of the law.”
– “You will have an illegitimate president. That’s what you’re going to have and we can’t let that happen. ” A reference to Biden’s rise to the presidency if not stopped.
“We’re going to the Capitol,” Trump told his followers, “let’s try to give them the kind of pride and boldness they need to get our country back.” So let’s go to Pennsylvania Avenue. “It simply came to our notice then.
However, his lawyer said on Friday that Trump “devoted almost his entire speech to an extensive discussion” about the voting process.
During the ensuing fight, Trump made a video telling the attackers that it was time to “go home.” He stressed the need for “law and order” and “peace” only when violence was ongoing. But he added: “We love you. You are very special people. Others are “so bad and so bad.”
He later tweeted that he did not express concern about the deadly consequences of the siege. He seemed to see justice in what had happened.
“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred victory in the landslide election is so recklessly and viciously removed by the great patriots who have been treated badly and unjustly for so long,” he wrote. “Go home with love and peace. Remember this day forever! ”
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BASTOR: “Clearly, there was no insurrection. Insurrection is an art term, defined in law, it involves taking over a country … a hidden government taking over TV stations and having a plan for what you will do when you finally take power ”.
FACTS: It was a manual insurrection.
As “defined in the law”, an insurrection is “a deed or a court of revolt in particular. violently against civil or political authority or against an established government, ”according to Merriam-Webster’s Law Dictionary.
Under the US Code, the offense of insurrection is committed by “anyone who incites, restrains, assists or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or its laws, or provides assistance or consolation therefor.”
In addition to the law and legal texts, the insurrection is defined by the New World College Webster Dictionary, which is used by The Associated Press, as “an uprising against established authority; rebellion; revolt.”
On January 6, the attackers physically and violently rose up against the established authorities – Congress, while fulfilling their constitutional duties surrounded and protected by US government personnel and police. Many in the siege intended to stop Congress from claiming Trump’s defeat.
An insurrection is usually understood to mean a short-lived revolt that fails, as it did. Castor may have combined an insurrection with a coup, which suggests a more organized and advanced effort to seize power, perhaps involving a shadow government ready to take over. January 6 was not that.
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