TPM "Why Trump's Mob Incitement Can't Be Separated From His Larger Effort To Steal An Election"

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-georgia-insurrection-capitol-mob-impeachment

By Tierney Sneed
January 12, 2021 2:46 p.m.
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In order to understand President Trump’s role in inciting a mob to storm the Capitol — and whether that behavior amounts to impeachable conduct — the events of last Wednesday shouldn’t be seen in a vacuum.


As the House prepares its case for removing the President, former prosecutors, as well as lawyers who advised Democrats in their last impeachment go-around, told TPM that Trump’s earlier efforts to reverse President-Elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory are deeply connected to why and how he riled up the Trump supporters that ransacked the halls of Congress last week.

The impeachment article introduced by House lawmakers earlier this week, which charges Trump with “incitement of insurrection,” references his call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger the weekend before Congress’ certification of the Electoral College. During the call, Trump demanded that Raffensperger “find” just enough votes to allow the President to overcome Biden’s margin of victory in the state.

The Raffensperger call is one of several apparent Trump interventions in Georgia that, in hindsight, appear to be important context for Wednesday’s events. Several days before calling Raffensperger, Trump also called an investigator in the secretary of state’s office and told the investigator to “find the fraud.” And the departure of a U.S. attorney in Atlanta, just two days before Congress was set to certify the Electoral College, now seems relevant to what was happening that day. The White House was reportedly behind U.S. Attorney’s ouster, as Trump was angry that the prosecutor had not launched phony investigations into his conspiracy theories.

snip. worth reading. Sums the mess we are in quite well

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Trump's call for Jan 6 rally ("will be wild!") in same Dec 19 tweet as about bogus "steal" report

tRump touted Navarro's report, since debunked, that supposedly was statistical proof of "the steal". Then he says

Big protest in D.C. January 6th. Be there, will be wild!