You Will Anyway: Impeachment trial #2

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Impeachment trial #2

Stacey Plackett listed a number of facts directly connecting Trump to the plans to storm the Capitol that I had not seen.

(This is not her full speech, and I will replace it when I find the full coverage.)

Agreed.

That was a surprise to me, too.

Looks like it might have been a surprise to lots of folks, and I'm willing to be it is a surprise to many Republican Senators.

Also...

UPDATE:

My guess is they won't spend any time defending it. They'll stick to the whole impeachment being "unconstitutional".

UPDATE:

On Sunday, The Washington Post walked through evidence collected by federal investigators in which those involved in storming the Capitol linked their actions to Trump’s desires. Others had said as much to media outlets before their arrests. But what the existing evidentiary record shows is that attention turned to the 6th only after Trump highlighted it. It wasn’t just that people came that day because of Trump, it’s that the day didn’t become a focus of attention until Trump highlighted it.

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A review of charging documents compiled by the department doesn’t indicate that any of those arrested in the storming of the Capitol had identified Jan. 6 as a date for travel to D.C. In fact, several of the documents show that plans changed only after Trump identified the date.

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Organizations focused on promoting rallies in Washington on Jan. 6 began to do so only after Trump’s initial tweet.

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On Dec. 13, for example, the website for the group Stop the Steal was promoting a rally in Washington held the day before. It wasn’t until Dec. 20 that the main page of the site promoted the Jan. 6 event. The day prior, its website showed no information about a rally in Washington. On Jan. 2, Trump retweeted a message promoting the rally near the White House, organized by an activist associated with the website TrumpMarch.com. It had put together a bus tour in November and early December to champion Trump’s false claims about the election. As of Dec. 18, the day of Trump’s first tweet, the site was still promoting the end of that tour. By Dec. 23, it had shifted to a bus tour ending in D.C. on Jan. 6.

WaPo

UPDATE:

It is such a travesty that Jamie Harrison did not defeat Lindsey Graham in November.

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