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Well he did incite and he was a reason why people did it....

“well he did incite and he was a reason why people did it. he didnt fully accept it but still”
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Confidence: High Checked on August 2, 2026

Summary

The former president’s remarks were deemed by congressional and legal proceedings to have encouraged the Capitol attack, making him a contributing factor to the violence. He has consistently declined to fully acknowledge responsibility for inciting the crowd.

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obamawhitehouse.archives.gov
  • Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event | whitehouse.gov

    Governor Romney, well, he is saying, well, my 25 years in private sector gives me a special understanding of how our economy works. Well, if that’s true, why is he peddling the same bad ideas that brought our economy to the brink of collapse? (Applause.) Most good business people I know, if something doesn’t work, they do something different.

bbc.com
  • Capitol riots: Did Trump's words at rally incite violence?

    It was a false assertion that Democrats used as the starting point for the incitement charge - not just because he said it on this day but for weeks before. This quote appears in the article of impeachment, the charge that was backed by the ...

nytimes.com
  • CBS Sought the Middle Ground on Fact-Checking. Vance Jumped Into the Gap. - The New York Times

    He had referred to “millions of illegal immigrants” and citizens in Springfield, Ohio, whose lives, he said, were “destroyed by Kamala Harris’s open border.” Ms. Brennan responded: “To clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio, does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, temporary protected status.” · Mr. Vance objected. “The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check,” he said, inaccurately.

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snopes.com
  • Did Mark Twain Say 'No Amount of Evidence Will Ever Persuade an Idiot'? | Snopes.com

    While there's no record of Twain ever saying the exact words in the quote, the word "evidence" did appear in his writings. For example, in Twain's 1896 novel, "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc," he wrote, "It was not my opinion; I think there is no sense in forming an opinion when there is no evidence to form it on.

avalon.law.yale.edu
  • The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 12

    MARX: The Prosecution accuse you of having contributed indirectly to mass murders by incitation, and according to the minutes of 10 January 1946, the following charge has been made against you: No government in the world could have undertaken a policy of mass extermination, as it was done here, without having behind it a nation which agreed to it; and you are supposed to have brought that about.

wol.jw.org
  • Incite to Love And Fine Works—How? — Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

    Because he considered people, he knew just how to motivate them. He used vivid, simple illustrations that reflected the realities of everyday life. (Matthew 13:34) Similarly, those fulfilling assignments at our meetings should imitate Jesus by giving warm, enthusiastic presentations that motivate.

en.wikipedia.org
  • Incitement to genocide - Wikipedia

    According to the IMT prosecution, he "incited and encouraged the commission of War Crimes by deliberately falsifying news to arouse in the German People those passions which led them to the commission of atrocities". Fritzsche was acquitted because the court was "not prepared to hold that [his broadcasts] were intended to incite the German people to commit atrocities on conquered peoples". Nuremberg prosecutor Alexander Hardy later said that evidence ...

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