Month: February 2021

Scenes showed Democrats objecting to Electoral College votes in 2017, and then-Vice President Joe Biden gaveling down their complaints in a joint session of Congress.

Other images showed Democrats including Biden, Representative Maxine Waters and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer using inflammatory language against a background of dramatic music, juxtaposed with clips of Trump vowing “law and order.”

Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen said Trump’s “fight like hell” vow at the rally before the mob attack on the Capitol was “ordinary political rhetoric that is virtually indistinguishable from the language that has been use by people across the political spectrum for hundreds of years.”

Trump has been clear that the criminals who attacked the Capitol must be prosecuted, and he can’t be blamed for inciting an insurrection that others planned, he said.“You can’t incite what was already going to happen,” van der Veen said.

Rejecting what he called “constitutional cancel culure,” van der Veen also said Trump simply pursued all legal and civic avenues to assure the integrity of the 2020 election that he decried as fraudulent.

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