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What did Trump say/do that called for violence? Why could rioters just go to the capitol? Seeing a dozen news articles the best argument seems to be that the m

• tehbeard 6y ago
  > ...not attending the inauguration was a call for violence. I don't buy it. It's a soft signal, one that really you should be looking at the wider context of the last 4 years and especially the last few months, rather than just in isolation. And to the mind of someone willing to use violence (such as say, those involved in the capitol riot), it becomes "hey guys, I still believe the election was stolen by those dirty libs and I won't be at this location, so if anything bad happens there, I won't be hurt. Wink Wink, nudge nudge." We have seen what his base will do. There is no longer a time to discuss hypotheticals, they will storm a goverment office with weapons, they will kill people, they will use IEDs, and they will put the Trump cult ahead of America; because that is what they did, in a Western capital of all places.