Trump Impeachment Team to Focus on 'Peacefully and Patriotically' in Jan. 6 Speech

Donald Trump’s impeachment team intends to lean heavily on his use of the words “peacefully and patriotically” in a Jan. 6 speech as part of his defense against the charge that the former president incited a mob of supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, according to people familiar with the effort.

The former president’s defenders are also assembling more than a dozen videos with what they hope will be a stronger argument after the rambling presentation by attorney Bruce Castor during the first day of his impeachment trial, the people said, a performance that was widely panned.

House managers serving as prosecutors have focused on Trump’s comments during the Jan. 6 rally urging his supporters to “fight like hell” and urging them to go to the Capitol.

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[mps]

Every politician since the beginning of time has used the word fight figuratively. This is an absolute joke. Just the fact that anybody with common sense calling this out is called a trump supporting insurrectionist, should tell you all you need to know about the state of leftist politics.

[davidryan]

Bloomberg conveniently won't show Trump stating, "peacefully & patriotically". That might hurt the narrative.

[johngoldone]

I am currently looking for the entire speech made on January 6th made by president trump right before the Capitol situation, I cannot find it.. a few months back I could watch the entire speech on YouTube and now the video has been removed. So tell me… if trump really did incite violence that day what do you have to hide in the full speech?

[timothypierce]

Couldn't be bothered to show the video of him saying "peacefully".

[enchantingamerica]

i think Trump telling his protestors to protest peacefully and patriotically heavily outweighs the “fight like hell” bit. fight like hell would reasonably be interpreted in this context as non-violent, while him directly telling his supporters to protest peacefully and patriotically cannot in any reasonable way be interpreted as “battle cops and break into the capital”

[gigli]

Administration, legislation, judicial and media have decayed already.

[LUCKYSOB]

HISPANICS FOR THE REAL PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP

[perkins]

Don't forget no violence Trump supporters abide by the law I heard him when he said it

[HappyCamper]

Never forget these few words were conveniently edited out. So I would say they are very important.

[doomfanboy]

Ah yes show literally none of his speech you know like the part where he told people to go home and stop. classic

[allegannews]

So why not show that part of speech? Instead a cut and 20-30 sec of blank screen.

[sfbmod]

Democrats need to read Orwell's 1984 book. So they don't make it come true.

[AmericanValorian]

I like how YouTube thinks Wikipedia is a good source for January 6th information.

[kennykaufman]

It’s never the lies of commission you need to worry about
It’s the lies of omission they are 100x more important.

[rawtalent]

Go out peacefully protest.(soft tone) fight fight (louder tone) these sell out are making me mad about this whole setup.

[yoeltruffin]

The numbers of like and dislike of this video send a clear message to the house impeachment manager, all those that are involved in this impeachment circus, Biden administration and democrats party in general. "We the people"

[TickedOffPriest]

Notice that they did not show the words as President Trump said this.

[camaropartsforall]

liars all of you. Peacefully and Patriotically....Go home in peace. This is the truth and the rest is a witch hunt

[polatiger]

Not gonna replay the speech or part of it?

[CJLAKE]

You guys didn't even show his speech.