U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speak during a joint news conference at the Capitol on Nov. 12, 2020.
On Tuesday (Feb. 9), as the U.S. Senate hears the impeachment of former President Donald Trump (D-N.Y.), Democrats used an edited video to smear Trump for directly instigating the violence that stormed Congress on Jan. 6, in an attempt to convict him. Former Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said the Democrats’ manipulation of the edited video has violated the House Rules. Also, the report on Trump’s impeachment has been noted to contain at least 75 lies.
Former Utah U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Fox News contributor, tweeted that the video played on the first day of the impeachment trial by Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, the House’s chief impeachment manager, was a “cherry-picked clip The video that Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin showed on the first day of the impeachment trial was the “cherry-picked clips”.
The term “cherry-picking” literally means “cherry-picking,” but in reality it means to argue unilaterally or to withhold evidence, to present only the arguments in support of an argument, and to completely ignore the arguments of the other side, just as a cherry-picker or fruit-picker picks only the good fruit.
Chaffetz said that according to page 34 of the House Rules, the intention to mislead the public by electronic means or social media dissemination, distorting or manipulating the production of any image, audio or video file may be subject to disciplinary action by the House.
The video, provided by Democrats, shows Trump telling the public, “We’re going to walk over there and I’m going to be with you. We’re going to walk over …… to the Capitol.” The video, however, shows people shouting “let’s occupy the Capitol” and also shows demonstrators trying to break through barriers. In the video, Democrats claim that Trump finished his speech and urged the “mob” to go to Congress.
However, the truth is that not once in his speech did Trump encourage people to go to the Capitol to commit violent or illegal acts. Trump also tweeted on the afternoon of Jan. 6, asking everyone at the Capitol to “keep the peace, not the violence.
At least 75 lies were found in the report provided by Democrats to impeach Trump.
Jeffrey Lord, an aide to former President Ronald Reagan and a contributing editor and Writer for the conservative online magazine The American Spectator, detailed the lies Tuesday on a website he founded. Jeffrey Lord, a contributing editor and writer for The American Spectator, detailed the lies and gave the corresponding facts on his website Tuesday.
Lord said that after reading the 77-page report provided by the Democratic Party, he “found 75 deliberate lies or misrepresentations, which means there’s one on almost every page. For example, the first sentence in this report is a lie.
The report says the trial was sparked by Donald Trump’s “incitement to rebellion against the Republic he swore to protect. The Democrats claim that Trump “committed a grave betrayal of his oath of office by inciting a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol during a joint session of Congress, thereby preventing Congress from confirming Biden as the winner of the presidential election.
Lord went on to point out that the truth is that President Trump did no such thing, and that “there is no word, no vocabulary, that suggests ‘inciting violence,’ which is a lie. He also provided a link to the full text of Trump’s Jan. 6 speech to millions of supporters (click here).
“I had listened to his speech in front of the Oval Lawn of the White House and I heard every word. The president (Trump) told his view of what was happening in the different states as they conducted their elections, and then he said something like, ‘I know everyone here will be heading to the Capitol soon, please express your views in peace and love.'” Loder described.
The report also accuses Trump of “creating a powder keg” that sparked the Jan. 6 clashes, “and then seeking personal gain from the destruction.”
The fact is, Loyd noted, that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives people “the right to use their freedom of speech to speak out” and that calling for an honest election investigation is not “creating a powder keg,” but rather trying to silence dissent is creating a powder keg.
The report also claims that the crowd that gathered behind the Oval Lawn of the White House to hear Trump and others speak was “armed, angry and dangerous.
The truth, Lord went on to note, is that “I was there, sitting in the front row. There was rock Music playing, and people around me were dancing and laughing. I have the video I took. That’s another lie.”
The report also mentions that Trump “spent months asserting that he won the election by a ‘landslide’ without evidence,” but that the election was ultimately “stolen.
Loder said that was true, and that Trump produced plenty of evidence that the election was stolen. In the statehouse hearings, witness after witness came forward to testify to election fraud and were willing to provide sworn testimony.
The report also accused Trump of “failing to take a decisive security response” in the wake of the harassment.
In fact, the president of the United States has no authority over security at the Capitol, and the security officers of the House and Senate, the committees of the House and Senate, and the Architect of the Capitol are responsible for the security of the Capitol, Loyd noted.
The report also quoted House Republican Conference Chairman Liz Cheney (R-Texas), who supports Trump’s impeachment, as saying that Trump assembled “this mob” and “lit the fire of this attack” and that everything that followed was his “masterpiece.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also recently claimed that “the mob was fed lies and provoked by the president.”
Loyd said it was a lie that Trump did not call a “mob. He invited his supporters – all Americans – to exercise their First Amendment rights in a “peaceful and loving manner,” meaning “the right of the people to assemble peacefully and to petition the government for redress of grievances “. Trump has 100 percent of the right to do so, and so do the millions of people who peacefully participated in the rally.
“And the president has fed no lies to those who peacefully assembled. Fundamentally changing the facts in these accounts is exactly what is turning the truth into a lie.” Lorde reiterated.
In addition, the report claims that a second impeachment of Trump “is not a partisan issue.”
That’s a particularly bold-faced lie and completely absurd,” Lord said. This impeachment is just as partisan as the one before it.”
There are more than 60 other false allegations in this Democratic impeachment report, which can be read in detail by clicking here.
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