Castro is making the correct point: the question of whether Trump's words legally constituted incitement to riot is a red herring. Trump's biggest crime is having convinced his followers that the election was being stolen, something that was itself culpable, and ended in violence
It is not a legal crime to knowingly and falsely claim that an election was stolen, nor should it be. But the qualifications for higher office are higher than "was it a legal crime".
Trump has demonstrated in the most vivid possible way that he will never put the Republic, or even his followers, ahead of his own welfare. He fed those deluded people the lies that eventually led them to attack Congress. We cannot have a president who would do that.
He has proven he is unfit for office and deserves to be convicted and barred from ever again holding office even regardless of whether you consider his speech on the Mall direct incitement.
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