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Donald Trump’s words and actions surrounding January 6, 2021 are tied by multiple official investigations and defendant statements to the Capitol attack, with the January 6 committee concluding he the...
The question of whether Donald Trump “incited an insurrection” centers chiefly on his words before and on January 6, 2021 — the House impeached him for “incitement of insurrection,” and the Senate vot...
The debate over how prosecutors and defense teams treat Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech splits into two principal legal arguments: that the speech can be evidence of criminal wrongdoing—includin...
The preponderance of congressional, prosecutorial, journalistic and academic reporting concludes that former President Donald Trump’s words and sustained campaign to overturn the 2020 election were a ...
The House January 6th Select Committee concluded that Donald Trump “lit that fire” and formally referred him for criminal charges including incitement of insurrection; the committee’s nearly 850‑page ...
The principal modern federal statute criminalizing sedition is the seditious conspiracy law, 18 U.S.C. § 2384, which makes it a crime for “two or more persons” to conspire by force to “overthrow, put ...
Trump’s January 6, 2021 “Save America” speech repeated his long-running, unproven claims that the 2020 election was stolen and urged supporters to “fight like hell,” then directed them to march to the...
Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021, “Save America” speech included a mix of scripted language (“peacefully and patriotically”) and unscripted, more combative lines — notably “We’re going to walk down to t...
Donald Trump’s January 6 tweets and speeches propagated false election fraud claims and included rallying language that many investigators, defendants, and watchdogs say the crowd that attacked the Ca...
A preponderance of official investigations, reporting and statements from participants concludes that summoned a crowd to with repeated false claims about the election, used violent and provocative rh...
Death threats or calls for violence on livestreams can meet U.S. criminal statutes, but whether they constitute prosecutable “true threats” or unlawful “incitement” depends on legal tests that balance...