Donald Trump encouraged this behavior in a speech near the White House. He incited this riot and he along with Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani should be held criminally liable. Their speeches are the proof that has been broadcast repeatedly over the past few days.
The Washington Post reports that “An army of 8,000 pro-Trump demonstrators streamed down Pennsylvania Avenue after hearing Trump speak near the White House.”
The Associated Press reports that the standard for legal liability is high under court decisions reaching back 50 years. The legal issue is whether Trump or any of the speakers at Wednesday’s rally near the White House that preceded the assault on the Capitol incited violence and whether they knew their words would have that effect. That’s the standard the Supreme Court laid out in its 1969 decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio, which overturned the conviction of a Ku Klux Klan leader.
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