EVIDENCE OF A HISTORY OF BUILDING VIOLENCE
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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As the historic second impeachment trial continues, the case is made by the managers of the history of violence incited by Trump before the attack on the US capitol. With presentations by Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado, and Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Then we heard gunshots on the other side and we flung ourselves down on the floor and removed our member pins |
| 0:08.2 | Then we heard pounding on the very flimsy gallery doors right up above us |
| 0:15.6 | Finally after that situation for some time |
| 0:19.6 | We were told to run out of representative Diana Degas is giving the house impeachment managers case against Donald Trump in the trial of the summer week |
| 0:28.6 | Take a life the SWAT team pointing automatic weapons at marauders on the floor |
| 0:36.3 | Looking at these people makes you wonder |
| 0:39.4 | Who sent them here? |
| 0:41.6 | In the next few minutes |
| 0:43.2 | I want to step back from the horrors of the attack itself and look at January 6th from a totally different perspective |
| 0:51.9 | The perspective of the insurrectionists themselves |
| 0:56.3 | They're on statements before |
| 0:59.0 | During and after the attack make clear the attack was done for Donald Trump at his instructions and to fulfill his wishes |
| 1:09.5 | Donald Trump had sent them there |
| 1:12.8 | They truly believed that the whole intrusion was at the president's orders and we know that |
| 1:19.8 | Because they said so |
| 1:21.8 | Many of them actually posed for pictures |
| 1:25.3 | Bragging about it on social media and they tag mr. Trump in tweets |
| 1:30.5 | Folks this was not a hidden crime the president told them to be there |
| 1:36.8 | And so they actually believed they would face no punishment |
| 1:41.8 | The defense argued in their briefs and they argued again here on Tuesday that the insurrectionists were acting on their own |
| 1:49.6 | That they were not incited by president Trump or acting in his direction |
| 1:54.8 | This is in their brief quote |
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