In Trump’s speech to the people he’d asked to come to DC and
march on the Capital he gives a long speech in which he says
“After this, we’re
going to walk down — and I’ll be there with you — we’re going to walk down,
we’re going to walk down — anyone you want, but I think right here — we’re
going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators
and congressmen and women. And we’re probably not going to be cheering so much
for some of them. Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness, you
have to show strength, and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that
Congress do the right thing, and only count the electors who have been lawfully
slated — lawfully slated. I know that
everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully
and patriotically make your voices heard today.”
Trump uses
the word “peacefully” and “patriotically” as code for, “you will break into the
capitol and demand the count stop!” Being
“strong” and being “peaceful” have opposite meanings in his rhetoric. It is also his pattern of inciting violence
but leaving wiggle room in his speech so he can deny he said what he obviously
said. He is no more credible here than a
Mob Boss telling an associate to “do him” about a person he is putting a hit
on. And he goes on to make one false
allegation of corruption, cheating, fraudulent votes coupled with asks for the
mob in front of him to take action. Threatening congress. He accuses Democrats of:
“oppos [ing] every effort to
clean up their voter rolls. They don't want to clean them up. They're loaded.”
Tells the
mob to not only to stop the certification of the count but force the congress to
pass sweeping legislation.
“So
today, in addition to challenging the certification of the election, I'm
calling on Congress and the state legislatures to quickly pass sweeping
election reforms, and you better do it before we have no country left.”
He says:
“Today is not the end, it's just
the beginning.
And after
accusing Democrats and turncoats of every manner of fraud,He says:
“We must stop the steal and then we must ensure that such
outrageous election fraud never happens again, can never be allowed to happen
again.”
He tells his
mob:
“Don't let them talk. OK, well, we promised. I've had a lot of people.
Sir, you're at 96% for four years. I said I'm not interested right now. I'm
interested in right there.”
He tells them, their mob will:
“Together, we will drain the Washington swamp and we will clean up the
corruption in our nation's capital.”
He tells them that their insurrection is actually stopping a takeover of
the country:
“If we allow this group of people to illegally take over our
country because it's illegal when the votes are illegal when the way they got
there is illegal when the states that vote are given false and fraudulent information.”
Then he tells them to fight like hell!
“I think one of our great achievements will be election
security. Because nobody until I came along had any idea how corrupt our
elections were.”
“And again, most people would stand there at 9 o'clock in the
evening and say I want to thank you very much, and they go off to some other
life. But I said something's wrong here, something is really wrong, can have
happened.”
“And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like
hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.”
Then he sets them to march:
“So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania
Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol, and we're
going to try and give.”
“The Democrats are hopeless — they never vote for anything. Not
even one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones
because the strong ones don't need any of our help. We're going to try and give
them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”
“So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”
And he aimed them at Congress!
