Technically it doesn’t matter if anyone actually listened in determining if Trump committed incitement. If he started saying last Wednesday “go in there and kill every democrat bastard” that’s probably incitement, even if everyone decided to just go home afterward 1/? https://twitter.com/loccheadrick/status/1350053469076525056
2/? The real problem with this impeachment is that the same law also completely exonerates him. You need advocacy of violence or other lawlessness as a first step and it’s just not there

3/? And the language the house cited in the impeachment—“fight like hell”—doesn’t count. He also said specifically to be peaceful and we all know that “fight” is a cliche meaning political fight.
For example: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/nov/09/how-joe-biden-beat-donald-trump-in-the-fight-for-americas-soul-video
For example: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/nov/09/how-joe-biden-beat-donald-trump-in-the-fight-for-americas-soul-video
4/? More examples:
“Fight like hell.” —Joe Biden https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/opinion/biden-interview-mcconnell-china-iran.amp.html
Biden Fight Fund https://secure.joebiden.com/a/bidenfightfund
Fight for $15 https://fightfor15.org/biden-image-share/
Joe Biden vows to fight Donald Trump if president challenges vote-counting in U.S. Supreme Court https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/11/joe-biden-vows-to-fight-donald-trump-if-president-challenges-vote-counting-in-us-supreme-court.html
“Fight like hell.” —Joe Biden https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/opinion/biden-interview-mcconnell-china-iran.amp.html
Biden Fight Fund https://secure.joebiden.com/a/bidenfightfund
Fight for $15 https://fightfor15.org/biden-image-share/
Joe Biden vows to fight Donald Trump if president challenges vote-counting in U.S. Supreme Court https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/11/joe-biden-vows-to-fight-donald-trump-if-president-challenges-vote-counting-in-us-supreme-court.html
I can go on and on. Just google the names of public figures and the word “fight.” They all say it. They use all kinds of violent and militaristic words to describe just plain politics. And none of it is advocacy of real violence and they know it
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6/? If it ends up that a sizable number of the people storming Congress was anti-FA, that makes it dumber. But it’s already nearly rock bottom dumb and unconstitutional for trump to be impeached for protected speech
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