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A Democratic impeachment manager (U.S.V.I. Delegate Stacey Plaskett) prosecuting Donald Trump for his role in inciting a riot at the US Capitol on 6 January argued that the former president willingly engaged his violent supporters over several months.
The violence did “not just appear” at the Capitol building, said Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett in her remarks to the US Senate on Wednesday.
“Trump knew the people he was inciting, he saw the violence they were capable of, and he had a pattern and practice of praising and encouraging that violence – never, ever condemning it,” she said.
By the time his “cavalry” of supporters arrived in Washington DC, “he had reason to know they were armed and willing to fight,” she said.
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