specific senate republicans at the end of this tweet this is a specific warning to anyone who won't help and overturn the results anyone who was against the president became an enemy and let me be very clear the president wasn't just coming for one or 2 people or democrats like me he was coming for you for democratic and republican senators he was coming for all of us just as the mob did at his direction in the going after centers of members of congress present from also pressured our justice department to investigate the false claims that the election was stolen at the president's direction william barr although member of the president's cabinet authorized federal prosecutors to pursue substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities bill barr pursuing these allegations sparked an outcry 16 assistant u.s.

attorneys in the trump administration urge attorney general to cease investigations because they have not seen evidence of any substantial anomalies that means they did not find any evidence of real fraud. or pursue the investigations anyways and after his investigation this is what he found quote we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the. 2 weeks later on december 14th the electors voted to give joe biden 360 electoral votes and ensured his victory the following day bill barr resigned attorney least served president trump here never publicly come out against the president but for bill barr making up for our claims and saying the election was stolen was a bridge too far. make clear that attempt to overturn election results crossed the

line according to a news report bill barr the highest law of norsemen official in the land told president donald trump to his face that his theories of you were quote both shit unquote when bill barr resign his former deputy jeff rosen took his place. she tweeted about mr rosen that he was an outstanding person when he announced that he would become acting attorney general but when rosen took over president trump put the same pressure on him that he'd done with state officials members of congress u.s. senators and his former attorney general present from report he summoned acting attorney general rosen to the oval office the next day and pressured rosen to appoint special counsels to keep investigating there you action including unfounded

accusations of widespread voter fraud and also to investigate dominion the voting machines firm according to reports mr rosen refused to maintain that he would make decisions based on the facts in the law and reminded president what he had already been told by attorney general bill barr that he department had already investigated and quote found no evidence of widespread fraud but president refused to follow the facts in the law so the president turned or someone he knew would do his bidding he turn to jeffrey clarke another justice department lawyer who had allegedly expressed support for using the department of justice to investigate the election results. shortly after acting attorney general rosen followed his duty and the law to reopen to refuse to reopen investigations present from antenna to replace mr rosen when mr clarke who could then try to stop congress from certifying the electoral college results according to reports white house counsel pat simple loney

a vice president from not to fire acting attorney general rosen department officials had also threatened to resign en masse if he had fired rosen president actions time and time again made clear that he would do anything in pressure anyone if it meant overturning the election results we watch president use any means necessary to pursue this aim fevers the grasping for straws retaining his hold on the presidency but all his efforts prior to january 6th kept failing and finally in his desperation he turned on his own vice president. he pressured mike pence to violate his constitutional oath and to refuse to certify the oath present from had decided the vice president pence who presided over this sort of occasion could somehow stop it yes pencil

a to confirm the vice president does not have that power in the constitution and present never try to explain why he thought the vice president could block the certification of election results he just began relentlessly attacking the vice president. publicly present attack plans on social media and net rallies getting his supporters to believe that mike pence could stop this sort of occasion on january 6th here's what president trump said in georgia on january 4th. and i hope my ass comes through for us i have. right right right. our great vice president comes through for us he's a great. boss if he doesn't come through a lot like of what is much. behind closed doors president trump applied sniffing in pressure to his 2nd in command mode who reports confirmed the

president from used his personal attorneys and other officials to pressure the vice president try to report the tone almost anyone who called him to also called the vice president according to reports when mike pence was in the oval office president trump would call people to try to get them to convince the vice president to help him and president trump kept repeating the myth their pens could stop this sort of occasion to his base to anger them hoping to intimidate mike pence. on the morning of the rally on january 6th president trump tweeted all my pens has to do is send them back to the states and all caps he wrote and we win do it mike this is the time for extreme courage president trent later went on to attack pence nearly a dozen times in his speech at the save america march privately in person before pence headed to oversee the joint session on january 6th president

trump again threatened hence you can either go down in history as a patriot mr trent totem according to people briefed on the conversation or you can go down in history so pussy. as a veteran i find it deeply dishonorable that our former president and commander in chief he created patriotism with violating the constitution and overturning the election you will see and hear the consequences of president repeated attacks on the vice president the chance of traitor in the chance of hanging my pants thankfully vice president pence stood his ground like or other brave officials stood their ground you refuse their president and fulfilled his duty and 6 even after the capitol was attacked even after he was personally targeted even after his family was targeted lies president parents stood strong and certify the

election vice president showed us what it means to be an american what it means to show courage he put his country oh his values and his morals above the will of one man the president had tried everything in his power to seize the everything in his attempt to seize power from the rightful victor of the election president trump's extraordinary actions grew increasingly more desperate you saw him go from pursuing claims in the courts to threatening state and local election officials to then attacking members of congress in the senate compromising our justice report and then to attacking the republican vice president these very public servants were being pressured by our commander in chief to overturn the results some of them and their families got death threats thankfully at every turn our democratic processes prevailed in the rule of law prevailed. because only

because all of these people stayed strong and refused to present that our republic held fast and the will of the electorate was seen through and at this point president down o.j. trial ran out of nonviolent options to maintain power. i began to raise that i began today by raising the question of how we got here what you saw was a man so desperate to cling to power that he tried everything he could to keep it and when he ran on a nonviolent measures he turned to the violence. that attacked your senate chamber on january 6th as you cast your vote after this trial i hope each of you will think of the bravery of all these people who said no to president trump because they knew that this was not right that this was not america.

next representative stacy plaskett the virgin islands will show in quite chilling detail i should say how president trump was a well aware of the threat of violence on january 6th and how he welcomed in amplified his supporters plans for insurrection against the union. i should say as lead manager this is a moment of special pride for me because representative plaskett is not only the 1st delegate ever to be on a team of impeachment managers in american history but she was also my last didn't at american universities washington college of law and i hope i'm not violating any federal educational records laws when i say she was an a student then and she's an

a plus didn't stay surprised. height mr president distinguished senators i am stacy plaskett and i represent the people of the virgin islands of the united

states over this past weekend my 11 year old daughter i overheard her telling one of my son's mommy doesn't sing really nervous about the impeachment trial to which that son sounding like an older brother said tahlia you'll learn that most of the time mommy really seems to have it under control. now we know as parents that's not always the case but i've learned throughout my life that preparation and truth can carry you far can allow you to speak truth to power i have learned that as a young black girl growing up in the projects in brooklyn housing community on sing croy. sent to the most unlikeliest of settings and now as an adult woman representing an island territory speaking to the u.s.

senate and because of truth i am confident today speaking before you because truth and facts are overwhelming that our president the president of the united states in a mob to storm the capital to attempt to stop the certification of a presidential election my fellow managers have shown and will continue to show clear evidence the president trump inside it a violent mob to storm our capital when he ran out of nonviolent means to stop the election. once assembled that mob at the president's direction erupted into the bloodiest attack on this capitol since $814.00 some of you have said there is no way the president could have

known how violent the mob would be that is false because the violence it was forseeable i want to show you why this violence was forseeable and why donald trump was different than any other politician just telling their fighters their supporters to fight for something the violence that occurred on january 6 like the attack itself did not just appear you'll see the donald trump knew the people he was inciting he saw the violence that they were capable of and he had a pattern and practice appraising and encouraging mob violence never ever condemning it and you'll see that this violent attack was not planned in

secret the insurgents believed that they were doing the duty of their president they were following his orders and so they publicized the openly loudly proudly exact blueprints of how the attack would be made law enforcement saw these postings and reported that these surgeons would violently attack the capitol itself. this was not just a come out comment by an official to fight for a cause this was months of cultivating a base of people who were violent praising that violence and then leaving that violence that rage straight at our door the point is this by the time he called the cavalry of his thousands of supporters on january 6th and then event he had invited them to he had every reason

to know that they were armed that they were violent and that they would actually fight he knew who he was calling and the violence they were capable of and he still gave out marching orders to go to the capital and quote fight like hell and stop the steel make no mistake the violence was not just forseeable to president trump the violence was what he deliberately encouraged as early as september trump set the precedent that when asked to denounce violence he would do the opposite and encourage it now if the president had only said something once about fighting to stop the steel and violence erupted there would be no way to know he intended to incite it or saw it coming but just as the president

spent months spreading his big lie of the election. he also spent months cultivating creeps of people who following his command repeatedly engaged in real dangerous violence and when they did when the violence erupted as a response to his calls to fight against the soling election he did not walk it back he did not tell them no he did the opposite the opposite he praised and encouraged the violence so that it would continue he fanned the flame of violence and it worked you'll see this over time these very groups and individuals whose violence the president praised helped lead the attack on january 6th and that's how we

know clearly that president trump deliberately incited this and how we know he saw it coming there are many examples where the president engaged in this pattern and i'm just going to walk you through a few of them let's start with the president's trumps incitement of the proud voice many of you have heard of this group which since 2018 has been classified by the f.b.i. as an extremist organization. since that classification the group has repeatedly engaged in serious acts of violence including at pro trump rallies and one such act on september 7th the proud boys attacked a man with a baseball bat and then punched him while he was down on the ground on september 29th during a presidential debate president trump was asked specifically if he was willing to

condemn white supremacy and militia groups if he was willing to tell them to stand down and stop the violence let's watch but are you willing tonight to condemn whites of promises and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence and a number of these studies as we saw in an osha and as we've seen in portland show you what americans do that your dog has a let's hear now the president's response. to it. you want to call him what you want to call him give me a name give me what is a protester who like me can die out grow as a person right proud of my boys stand back and stand by when asked to condemn the proud boys and white supremacists what our president

say he said stand back and stand by his message was heard loud and clear the group adopted that phrase stand back and stand by as their official slogan they created merchandise with their new slogan which they wore proudly across their backs. at trump's rally and they followed the president's orders you'll see more about this later in the trial but you'll see in these photos to the left dominic basilica and to the right william pepe 2 of the leaders of the group heading to the capitol on january 6th they were later charged with working together to obstruct law enforcement as we go through this evidence i

want you to keep in mind these words by president trump when asked to condemn violence stand back and stand by and see example after example of the kinds of people like the proud boyce who he had standing by on january 6 by october as my colleagues mr castro and mr swalwell showed you donald trump was escalating his big lie that the only way he could lose the election was if it was raked so as election day neared his supporters were fresh treated and they were angry they were prepared to ensure his victory by any means necessary one of these violent acts was on october 30th some time after 12 30 pm a caravan of more than 50 trucks covered in pro trump camping gear confronted and

surrounded cars carrying biden harris' campaign workers and a biden harris campaign bus as they were traveling down interstate 35 from san antonio to austin according to witnesses this caravan repeatedly tried to force the bus he saw and you see in that video to slow down in the middle of the highway and then to run it off the road. what bad video you just saw does not show is that the bus that they tried to run off the road was filled with young campaign staff volunteers supporters sarah gets people as the trump supporters closed in on the bus a large back black pickup truck adorned with trump flags suddenly and intentionally swerved and crashed into a car driven by

a biden harris volunteer news of the event went viral on social media the president of the united states in a campaign saw his own supporters trying to run a bus carrying his opponent's campaign workers off the highway to physically intimidate people in this country campaigning here was his response the next day. to. come to the. earth.

the president of the united states tweeted a video of his supporters trying to drive a bus off the road you'll recall in that 1st video that i showed you there was no sound well the one that he tweeted had a fight theme song placed to it that the president the president put that music to that video and he added at the top i love texas. by the next evening that tweet that he did have been viewed 12600000 times and it wasn't just a tweet on november 1st at a michigan rally with a sea of supporters the president talked about that incident again here it is there were people you know they were protecting his bus yesterday. but

then her marriage of cars truck driver the american flag that's used in proper american flag. the president made a public joke of violence against campaigners in an american election he made light of it this was not a joke in fact it was so violent it put so many people in harm's way that the f.b.i. investigated the incident and the criminal responsibility of those who attacked these campaign workers now our president donald trump could have said ok i didn't realize how bad that was this was very violent please stop but he didn't he saw the investigation and made a statement in defense of his supporters attack on the bus writing quote in my opinion these patriots did nothing wrong in gauging and violence for

him made them patriots to donald trump for anyone who says donald trump didn't know the violence he was inciting. i ask you to consider his supporters tried to drive a bus off the highway in the middle of the day to intimidate his opponent's campaign workers and his response was to tweet the video of the incident but had to fight music joke about it and call those individuals in that incident patriots and once again donald trump's pay raise worked to incite them further emboldened by that praise they remained ready to fight ready to stand back and stand by this link is not hypothetical just like we saw with the proud boy showing up in full force on january 6th donald

trump's encouragement of this attack made sure his supporters were ready for the next one the caravan bus attack had been organized by a trump supporter he fully leading up to the attack on our capital of january 6 mr lee teamed up with other supporters to fundraise to help to bring people to washington d.c. for that day the morning of the attack he filmed footage of the capitol pointed out the flimsiness of fencing and then addressed to supporters before the attack saying quote as soon as you all get done hearing president y'all get to the capitol we need to surround that place during the attacked he used the bullhorn to call out for the mop to rush in he later went to the rotunda himself and then back

outside to urge the crowd to come inside these are the people the president trump cultivated who were standing by i'd like to look at another example. after the election on december 12th trump supporters gathered in mass to protest the stolen election in d.c. it was billed by his loyalists as the 2nd 1000000 maggo march there or the rally was organized by women for america 1st the same group that you'll see later secured the permit for the january 6th rally and who else was there the proud voice standing by donald trump did not attend that rally but he made sure to make clear his supporters throughout the day how he felt about

the event at 8 47 am he sent out a tweet we have just begun to fight and then the rally began and donald trump's allies who spoke at the rally carried on his message of the stolen election and the importance of fighting to stop the steele here's nicholas pointis a commentator who would organize a stop the steele rally in michigan with trump supporters at the ball because the better. the i think the 1st broke the color of the congo i was. like i was like on the back of the rock on the back office and this was.

the ok ok was 2 2 god 7 god. those words that was trump's message destroy anyone who won't listen. who won't help them take the election for trump and as you will see this was just the preview for 4 entities who like the proud boys and the trunk caravan organizers would later he the president's call and come to washington and be there on january 6 later in the rally a former term campaign spokeswoman katrina pierson also spoke during her speech she stated quote this isn't over this is just beginning referring to the fight to stop.