Thread by @lrozen

Rep. Plaskett: He know who he was calling ..the violence was what he deliberately encouraged.
as early as December. when asked to denounce violence, he encouraged it.
He repeatedly cultivated groups of people who engaged in real, dangerous violence

Plaskett: he fanned the flame of violence, and it worked.
groups whose violence he praised helped lead the assault on the Capitol.
a pattern.
incitement of the Proud Boys

Trump, asked at 9/7 debate if he was willing to condemn white supremacists and say they need to stand down.
Trump: give me a name
Wallace: Proud Boys
Trump: stand back and stand by
Plaskett: PB got mssg loud & clear. adopted that phrase as their official slogan. sold merch

On Oct. 30, caravan surrounded and tried to run off the road bus carrying young Biden campaign supporters, truck crashed into car
trump responded next day with a tweet of the video of his supporters trying to drive the bus off the road, set to a fight song, saying: I love Texas!

I think I remember Rubio had a tweet making light of this incident too.

Plaskett, saying the FBI investigated the incident, noted Trump tweeted praise: In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong.

Plaskett says the bus attack was lead by Keith Lee who helped organize the Jan. 6 rally and attack on the capitol

Plaskett: At Dec. 12 second million maga march/proud boys rally in DC, Trump tweeted: We have just begun to fight!
shows video of PBoys there chanting: destroy the GOP.
Trump tweets photo of his flyover of PB rally.
video of violence as proud boys attacked people in dc that night

Women for America First amended their permit papers to move their rally to Jan. 6 as Trump became involved with organizing it.