The House Jan. 6 committee member said Trump's actions in the attack on the Capitol were 'far more central' than just 'incitement to insurrection.'
impeachment trial and had shown that the former president was a"far more central" figure in last year's siege on the Capitol.
"Everything that took place during the impeachment trial was based on public statements and public records ... for example, Donald Trump's speech inciting the crowd to go 'fight like hell, or you won't have a country anymore,'" Raskin told host Nicolle Wallace."All of that clearly added up to incitement to insurrection, as was found by bicameral majorities in both the House and in the Senate.
"What we've been able to do on the January 6th select committee is to interview more than 1,000 witnesses, collect more than a million pages worth of documents and all of the details documenting that Donald Trump's role was far more central to these events than merely inciting them. He was really behind them, and none of them would have happened without him."
Raskin recalled that Trump had tweeted a plea for his supporters to gather in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, just as
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