People need to step back from the details and focus on the single, most damning point:
There was no legitimate, lawful reason for a defeated president to be summoning a mob to the Capitol.
His constitutional responsibility was to oversee a peaceful transition of power.
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There was no legitimate, lawful reason for a defeated president to be summoning a mob to the Capitol.
His constitutional responsibility was to oversee a peaceful transition of power.
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1349005745233264640
We are losing sight of the simplest indictment.
A president who lost an election refused to accept his defeat and instead fomented insurrection.
A president violated oath and law at the moment when his duty most called for safeguarding our democracy’s sustaining principle.
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A president who lost an election refused to accept his defeat and instead fomented insurrection.
A president violated oath and law at the moment when his duty most called for safeguarding our democracy’s sustaining principle.
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Donald J. Trump, having been defeated, led a two-month campaign in violation of the constitutional mandate that he effect a peaceful continuation of our democracy.
This is, in my mind, as vile a treason as any ever committed.
Impeachment is insufficient.
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This is, in my mind, as vile a treason as any ever committed.
Impeachment is insufficient.
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Donald J. Trump, having been defeated, led a comprehensive effort to thwart the transition of power to the incoming administration.
His fomenting of violence was but a last sedition in a long campaign of treasons.
He must be not only removed but prosecuted.
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His fomenting of violence was but a last sedition in a long campaign of treasons.
He must be not only removed but prosecuted.
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If the President of the United States can personally attempt to lead a coup from the Oval Office without punishment, we are not a nation of laws.
We are a ship adrift and listing toward the ruin of fascism.
Our democracy demands Trump be prosecuted. It demands it.
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We are a ship adrift and listing toward the ruin of fascism.
Our democracy demands Trump be prosecuted. It demands it.
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