A two time Trump general election voter, in 2020 as well as 2016, explained that he would not be voting for the defendant in the 2024 presidential election because the defendant incited the insurrection. A person posted a comment to say that this person needed to learn the facts.
Here was my response, just off the top of my head:
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Fact (1) : The defendant invited via tweet his most rabid supporters to go to DC to the Ellipse on Jan 6th after promoting the big lie despite being told by (1) his campaign manager Bill Steppien and his lead data guy Matt Orczkowski that he lost (2) people he nominated (a) AG Barr (b) Acting AG Jeffrey Rosen (c) Acting Deputy AG Richard Donoghue (d) White House Counsel Pat Cipillione (e) Cyber security election expert within DHS Chris Krebs and others , being told by (3) Republicans within state government, conservative republicans [ie not people you can CREDIBLY call RINOs] (a) GA Gov Brian Kemp (b) GA Sec of State Brad Raffensperger (c) Gabriel Sterling, COO within the Secretary of State office, who held multiple press conferences two hours long each debunked the crazy conspiracy theories (d) Doug Ducey Gov of AZ (e) AZ Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers who campaigned for him and (4) Judges and Justices, half of whom were appointed by Republicans, 16 of whom he appointed himself, who ruled against him and his allies in 61 of 62 election lawsuits.
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The people he found most credible were the ones he nominated. You can't say pick random people simply because they hold the pre-existing view you want pushed and then say you only believed the lie because of advice of counsel. That's like shooting an arrow into a barn door and drawing concentric circles around where the arrow landed to show what great aim you have. The view preceded these loonies and he only picked the loonies because they held to the crazy conspiracy theories.
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Fact 2: He picked January sixth for a reason, namely that it is the date the US CONSTITUTION MANDATES that the Congress collect, count, and certify the electoral college votes. The defendant led Trumpers, including the insurrectionists, to believe that some outcome other than Joe Biden being officially declared the president elect on this day. The defendant led these people to believe that Mike Pence might not vote to count electoral college votes for states Biden won, that he would on his own by himself alone unilaterally pick who the next president would be, ignoring the will of the 155 million American voters. He did that knowing Mike Pence recognized that his rule was purely nominal or ceremonial, not administrative.
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Fact 3: Donald Trump himself is the one who implied violence in his tweet by his words "will be wild" which Trumper far right social media influencers immediately understood to include violence. That's why so many of these people brought weapons, firearms. Who brings firearms to a peaceful political rally? They intended on using these firearms to overturn the results of a free and fair election.
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Fact 4: The defendant ginned up the ire of these people by repeating the lie. His lawyers put in the original written speech peace or a derivative of peace half a dozen times. In delivering the speech, the defendant eliminated all but once reference to peace and added half a dozen more instances of violent rhetoric than were in the speech originally like, "Fight like Hell or you're not going to have a country anymore!" He saw that there was empty space in front of the stage and that Trumpers with firearms would not get closer because they did not want to have to surrender their firearms. He said, "Can we please take down the MAGS? These people aren't here to hurt me?" implying that he understood that these people were there to hurt others.
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Fact (5) He sent these people to the Capitol. He said, "We're going to the Capitol!"
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Thus, he sent an angry armed mob to assault the Capitol. He knew that these people were armed and that they were there to hurt Former Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress.
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Fact (6) While the insurrection was taking place, he called Senator Tommy Tuberville. Did he ask about the welfare of the members of Congress and his Vice President Mike Pence? Did he ask what he could do to help? He did not. Instead, he told him to try to get Senate Republicans to vote against counting electoral college votes of states President Biden won.
Fact (7) He told Jonathon Karl that it was "common sense" that the insurrectionists should hang Mike Pence because he would not go along with the attempted coup.
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Friend these are facts. You need to stop believing conspiracy theories and the liars that promote these conspiracy theories and engage critical thinking skills and join the real world.