U.S. President Donald Trump (Trump) speaks to supporters before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews on Jan. 20, 2021.
An adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump (Trump) revealed Thursday (Feb. 4) that Trump’s lawyers plan to show a timeline of the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol and photos from the Capitol during the riots to support the claim that Trump did not instigate the attack on the Capitol.
Jason Miller, Trump’s counsel, said in an interview with Newsmax News Online, “We’ll publish a timeline of that event, even the information on the New York Times homepage …… We’ll add pictures, and you’ll be able to see that the attack on the Capitol Building was started before President Trump started his speech.”
On Jan. 6, Trump spoke at the Ellipse, about 2 miles south of the White House from the Capitol. A timeline of that event shows that he had not finished his speech at the Time of the violence at the Capitol. In making their arguments for Trump’s impeachment at the preliminary hearing, Democrats claimed that those who committed the violence were attendees of the rally from the Oval.
Trump was impeached on Jan. 13, and congressional Democrats accused him of inciting rebellion. They cited a passage from his speech in which he urged supporters to “fight like hell. Trump has defended his speech. Lawyer Miller noted that Trump clearly told supporters in his speech to “go to the Capitol and make their voices heard peacefully and patriotically.
Miller added that people can see from his record that “he is the most pro-law-and-order president ever, and he condemns mob violence of any kind, especially after last summer.”
He said, “I think that’s where Democrats have taken aim at President Trump and become so obsessed that they’re willing to ignore the basic evidence that’s in front of them. We’ve seen in public reports from the police, the FBI and various other sources since Jan. 6 that most of these plans of theirs have been done before.”
David Schoen, one of the lawyers who will defend Trump in his Senate impeachment trial next week, said in a recent appearance on Fox News that it was inaccurate to call Trump “inflammatory rhetoric.”
We recognize that there was a riot that day,” he said. It was a tragedy. President Trump has always condemned violence. Go read the words of his speech calling for peace. This has nothing to do with President Trump.”
Another lawyer added, “Just because someone gave a speech and people got excited about it doesn’t mean it was the speaker’s fault – it was some people who got excited and did what they knew was wrong.”
Court documents show that at least some of the participants in the riot had planned the attack in advance.
Schein argued that the House impeachment pushers should not have shown the video of the riot and people getting hurt. “This country doesn’t need to just watch videos of riots and unrest, we need healing now, we need to move forward.”
Trump said in response to the allegations in the impeachment resolution that he did not incite the crowd.
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