BY ALLAN LICHTMAN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/08/2021
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
(IN all-caps, as it was in the "article" itself)
What you posted is a hyper-partisan opinion piece, and it's absolute shit garbage. From a hyper-partisan Democrat Harvard lawyer who has been grasping and pushing for Trump's impeachment on any rationalization possible since Jan 2017.
The smoking gun for NOT impeaching:
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to PEACEFULLY and patriotically make your voices heard...
Add to that how all these fringe groups who committed violence on Jan 6th pre-planned their violence a month in advance, as detected by the NYPD and referred well in advance of Jan 6th to FBI, DHS, and Capitol police.
**CLEARLY** Trump was not the catalyst for their violence, much as you lyingly try to front that slanderous narrative.
And of those who actually committed violence on Jan 6th.
BLM, John Sullivan: Left-wing vilolence.
Boogaloos: Despite your lying efforts to describe them as "right wing" and "Trump supporters", they are anarchists with ties to BLM, and the head of that group has repeatedly said on social media that he hates Trump "and most Republicans".
Oath Keepers: possibly a right-wing milita, but not Trump supporters, and they likewise planned their violence in posts on social media a month in advance of Jan 6th.
Proud Boys: another group that is all over the place in their beliefs, and planned their actions well in advance of Trump's speech.
If you want to REALLY cite people whose public rhetoric openly incites violence and further endorses it after the attacks, look no further than :
Kamala Harris ( of BLM. "They're going to keep up the pressure right up to election day, they're not going to stop, and they SHOULDN'T stop.")
Joe Biden Multiple comments endorsing BLM, and repeatedly saying he'd like to punch or otherwise attack Trump.
Nancy Pelosi (Saying of Trump while he was president: " I don't know why there aren't uprisings all over the country. There should be")
Sen Cory Booker ("Get in some congressmen's faces..." )
Rep. Cori Bush (who over the weekend called for Biden to launch drone strikes and kill Trump at Mar A Lago !!!!!!!)
Rep. Maxine Waters ( of ANY Bush official: "create a crowd, push back at them, let them know they're not welcome." A clear call for mob intimidation)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who called ICE nazis, and immediately after there was an Antifa attack on an ICE compound that she refused to condemn.
If I spent the time, I could list dozens other Democrats whose words have directly called for violence and incited actual violence.
It is incredible that these Democrat-Bolsheviks, stoking and endorsing violence, FOR YEARS, have the audacity to frame and prosecute Trump for "incitement" that clearly did not occur, as police reports and Trump's own videotaped speech make clear. While simultaneously ALL these Democrats are themselves infinitely guilty of !
Incredible audacity.
