Reminder: any lawmakers who engaged in insurrection on January 6th must be held accountable and barred from holding public office now and in the future.
And yes, that includes Donald Trump.
@rbreich Does "engaged" include the failure to demand that the insurrection stop? Did Trump use specific language encouraging people to change the election result by force? These must be some of the issues the Committee is trying to determine.
@LouisIngenthron @rbreich I Yes, but is there enough hard evidence to indict Trump? I guess we'll know before too long.
@trainman @rbreich I didn't think they'd ever get over the actual malice standard for incitement, but the committee hearings have made a pretty compelling case.
The fact that Trump knew there were insurrectionists armed with guns, knew that they "weren't there for [him]", and then proceeded to rile them up and focus their anger, and then fought his own secret service detail to try to lead the march on the capitol... It's a high standard, but it's no longer unreachable.
