Ben Ulansey
1 min readNov 7, 2024

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It doesn't feel as though you're looking at this objectively. His tweets directly resulted in the insurrection. Here's a snippet from an article with direct quotes.

Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election," Trump tweeted, even after he had heard from many of his top political and legal advisers that he had, in fact, lost. ...

"Big protest in D.C. on January 6th," he wrote, referring to the day Congress was set to formally certify Joe Biden's victory in the electoral college.

"Be there, will be wild!" ...

"President Trump's tweet drew tens of thousands of Americans to Washington to form the angry crowd that would be transformed on Jan. 6 into a violent mob," said Raskin.

A man who pleaded guilty to breaching the Capitol building, Stephen Ayres, testified to the committee that Trump's social media posts encouraged him to attend the rally on Jan. 6. "​​He basically put out, you know, come to the 'Stop the Steal' rally, you know, and I felt like I needed to be down here," Ayres testified."

All I will grant is he didn't say the words, "storm the capital!" As McConnel said, though, Trump is practically and morally responsible. He knew what would happen if he called protesters to DC on the day of the count, and if he LIED about winning the election over and over. Denying that Trump has any fault over what took place that day just doesn't hold any weight.

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Ben Ulansey
Ben Ulansey

Written by Ben Ulansey

Writer, musician, entertainment enthusiast, and amateur lucid dreamer. I write memoirs, satires, reviews, philosophical treatises, and everything in between 🐙

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