Trump promoted peace
Democrats have argued that Trump used violent rhetoric about elected officials and prompted protestors to storm the Capitol. However, their argument falls apart when reading Trump’s speech transcript and after viewing his video pleading for protestors to disperse and return to their homes. In his Jan 6th speech at The Ellipse Trump said, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” Later, Trump issued a video urging people to go home again reiterating to do so peacefully.
In the video Trump says, we have to have peace, we have to have law and order, we have to respect our great people in law and order, we don’t want anyone hurt.
The memo reads:
“The House’s heavy reliance on Mr.Trump’s metaphorical “fighting” language is completely devoid of context, which, when considered as a whole, places Mr. Trump’s speech entirely within the protection of the First Amendment. The thrust of the House’s allegation against Mr.Trump is that he said, in the context of election security generally, that “if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore.”To characterize this statement alone as “incitement to insurrection” is to ignore, wholesale, the remainder of Mr. Trump’s speech that day, including his call for his supporters to “peacefully” making their “voices heard.”
