Thread by @gtconway3d

"President Trump’s conduct must be declared unacceptable in the clearest and most unequivocal terms. This is not a partisan matter. His actions directly threatened the very foundation on which all other political debates and disagreements unfold."
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"No enemy—foreign or domestic—had ever obstructed Congress’s counting of the votes. No President had ever refused to accept an election result or defied the lawful processes for resolving electoral disputes. Until President Trump."
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"Surveying the tense crowd before him, President Trump whipped it into a frenzy, [and] aimed them straight at the Capitol, declaring: “'You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.'"
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"Incited by President Trump, his mob attacked the Capitol. This assault unfolded live on television before a horrified nation. But President Trump did not take swift action to stop the violence."
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"While Vice President Pence and Congress fled, and while Capitol Police officers battled insurrectionists, President Trump was reportedly “delighted” by the mayhem he had unleashed, because it was preventing Congress from affirming his election loss."
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"This dereliction of duty—this failure to take charge of a decisive security response and to quell the riotous mob— persisted late into the day."
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"In fact, when Congressional leaders begged President Trump to send help, ... he instead renewed his attacks on the Vice President and focused on lobbying Senators to challenge the election results."
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"President Trump endangered our Republic and inflicted deep and lasting wounds on our Nation. His conduct resulted in more than five deaths and many more injuries. The Capitol was defiled. The line of succession was imperiled."
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"President Trump’s incitement of insurrection requires his conviction and disqualification from future federal officeholding. This is not a case where elections alone are a sufficient safeguard against future abuse; ...."
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"... it is the electoral process itself that President Trump attacked and that must be protected from him and anyone else who would seek to mimic his behavior."
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"Indeed, it is difficult to imagine a case that more clearly evokes the reasons why the Framers wrote a disqualification power into the Constitution."
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