I didn't need my phone number to sign up for Facebook or Instagram and even Twitter only asked for my phone number after they falsely flagged me for "bot like activity," at which point I abandoned Twitter for good (several years ago).

Never the less, that is their entire argument and Trump using a first amendment defense instead of defending his claims of election fraud basically says "I lied but I had the right to," lol. The uniparty wins regardless of the outcome.

For any conviction to be legitimate they would have to prove that Trump did not actually believe that the election was stolen and that he knowingly lied for the sake of inciting an insurrection but this trial is a farce and they've already decided exactly how they're going to vote so he might as well use the platform that they're giving him to present evidence that the election was stolen.

Yes, it is. They can't point to a single video, audio clip or tweet in which Trump directly incited violence and/or encouraged his supporters to do anything other than peacefully exercise their first amendment rights. Their entire argument is that Trump incited an insurrection by falsely claiming that the election was stolen.

Yeah, and? That just proves that the trial is a farce and that they're not voting based on facts or evidence.

Let them further destroy themselves.

Yes, and their argument is that he incited violence by falsely claiming that the election was stolen.

Evidence that the election was stolen is completely relevant to the case, but I guess his lawyers are working against him.

Not really. I have no doubt that the majority of black people do not consider politically motivated violence against white people to be terrorism. They don't consider racially motivated crimes against white people to be hate crimes, either.

Doesn't change the fact that they're aware of and support BLM's actions.

The difference is that BLM is actually a black supremacist terrorist organization.

As long as the majority of black people continue to support BLM and other black supremacist terrorist organizations, we can safely assume that the majority of black people are racists who support violence against white people.

Of course. They did this during 0bama's presidency too.

The only person who was killed during the Capitol riots was an unarmed Trump supporter who was shot in the neck by police.

The cop who allegedly died due to head trauma texted his family after the protest saying that he'd been pepper sprayed but was otherwise fine and in good spirits. You don't do that after you've had your head bashed in.

There were a million cameras in the area too, so if the cop was actually beaten in the head with a fire extinguisher or anything else, somebody would have been arrested for it by now.

Didn't he denounce Trump and the right and say that he was wrong all along and some other cuck non-sense?

Not recently but like a year ago or more.

It's a legitimate question.

Nah. They remember what happened the last time they tried to secede.

It's been 3 months. They've already covered up their tracks. These audits do nothing but help legitimize the fraud.

You just described every Democrat.

The rest of us are gonna pay for it in the form of bailouts and inflation.

Meh. It was never mine. I joined the party late and it was already rotten then. I just didn't realize how rotten until now.

Anybody have a link to the original New York Times data? Or has it been scrubbed?

Exactly why they'll rule in their favor.

Don't really care what the Republican party does now that I'm not a Republican anymore.

Huh? That already happened. The result was 35,000 troops in DC, Big Tech and the FBI cracking down on freedom of speech, and an illegal impeachment that will most likely lead to the first ever prosecution of a former POTUS.

Okay, but as long as they're giving themselves, their friends and foreign country trillions of dollars worth of the tax payer's money, the absolute least that they can do is refund me $2,000.

In all seriousness, I will exclusively use the term "China virus" from now on.

The most popular presidential candidate of all time said that the American people did not deserve to know his stance on court-packing and that we'd know his opinion after the election was over. Though we all knew regardless.