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In reply to the discussion: Bombshell special counsel filing includes new allegations [View all]TomCADem
(17,831 posts)...that the email itself as attached to the filing. It also shows how Trump's co-conspirators understood Trump's words and directions. Trump's main defense is that he was merely using heated rhetoric, and that he was not actually intending that folks start an insurrection. I think Jack Smith wants to show that Trump fully understood that his followers would take his words literally and that this was the intended result given that Trump was fully aware of the events as they transpired and not only did he not stop them, but that he intended to continue to support such developments.
The irony hear is that the action of the Secret Service is disobeying his direction to take him to the Capitol is what is allowing Trump to claim some non-involvement given that he was not literally on the steps of the Capitol telling his supporters to hand Mike Pence.
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