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To: Alas Babylon!
If you read the the four page Article of Impeachment, election fraud consumes almost two pages of the article (pp 3-4). It is central to the incitement charge. How can you not address the substance of what allegedly incited the crowd?

From the Article:

On January 6, 2021, pursuant to the 12th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the House of Representatives, and the Senate met at the United States Capitol for a Joint Session of Congress to count the votes of the Electoral College. In the months preceding the Joint Session, President Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or Federal officials. Shortly before the Joint Session commenced, President Trump, addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. There, he reiterated false claims that "we won this election, and we won it by a landslide." He also willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged — and foreseeably resulted in — lawless action at the Capitol, such as: "if you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore." Thus incited by President Trump, members of the crowd he had addressed, in an attempt to, among other objectives, interfere with the Joint Session's solemn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 Presidential election, unlawfully breached and vandalized the Capitol, injured and killed law enforcement personnel, menaced Members of Congress, the Vice President, and Congressional personnel, and engaged in other violent, deadly, destructive and seditious acts. the Article:

President Trump's conduct on January 6, 2021, followed his prior efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the results of the 2020 Presidential election. Those prior efforts included a phone call on January 2, 2021, during which President Trump urged the secretary of state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to "find" enough votes to overturn the Georgia Presidential election results and threatened Secretary Raffensperger if he failed to do so.

In all this, President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government. He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government. He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

127 posted on 01/24/2021 8:23:51 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar
He threatened the integrity of the democratic system

"the democratic system"....AKA: The RAT gravy train.

135 posted on 01/24/2021 8:32:52 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Trump won the "popular vote". Biden won the digital vote.)
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To: kabar
...How can you not address the substance of what allegedly incited the crowd? ...

The courts have so seen fit, so far.

152 posted on 01/24/2021 8:41:50 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: kabar
Desperate people seeking a desperate solution which of course as usual for the dems is illegal. Since they make their own laws and the media endorses anything they do nothing matters anymore.
180 posted on 01/24/2021 8:59:45 AM PST by rodguy911 ((FreeRepublic home of the free because of the Brave---Where we go One))
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