Trump’s call to march on Capitol was a crime

Smoking gun for impeachment: Proof Trump’s call to march on Capitol was a crime

(Greg Palast, 2/11/21) Here is the smoking gun. Trump’s GOP defenders say that Trump merely called for a march to the Capitol, a legal act of protest. Except for this: it wasn’t legal. And Trump and his team knew it. During Wednesday’s trial, House impeachment manager Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) laid out the evidence the Palast investigative team first broke on Consortium News and on the Thom Hartmann Program: The sponsors of the January 6th rally at the Ellipse repeatedly promised, in writing, there would be no march on the Capitol. Watch this interview with Law & Crime’s Brian Ross. More

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