B/C the people who did it had preplanned it for days and weeks in advance - they had no interest in President Trump's speech. Hell, they began their incident while he was still speaking! They started removing barricades about 12 minutes BEFORE Trump left the stage, and it's reportedly about a 35-40 minute walk from the speech area to the capitol. So clearly the people involved in the capitol incursion weren't at the speech. It's also known at least a few of them were also involved in the antifa/blm riots last summer.
Bottomline, Trump did not call for violence - he called for the exact opposite, and people claiming he did are viciously stupid, or grotesquely dishonest, or BOTH.
Yeah, that rhetoric about going peacefully to the Capitol...that was surely code for everyone getting their guns out and shooting up the place! /s
I think cruz was referring to the President's statements in November & December prior to January 6th, not to the speech on the 6th.
B/C the people who did it had preplanned it for days and weeks in advance - they had no interest in President Trump's speech. Hell, they began their incident while he was still speaking! They started removing barricades about 12 minutes BEFORE Trump left the stage, and it's reportedly about a 35-40 minute walk from the speech area to the capitol. So clearly the people involved in the capitol incursion weren't at the speech. It's also known at least a few of them were also involved in the antifa/blm riots last summer.
Bottomline, Trump did not call for violence - he called for the exact opposite, and people claiming he did are viciously stupid, or grotesquely dishonest, or BOTH.