Times. Inciting Violence
With regard to Trump s speech on the day of the Capitol Hill riot, Trump attorney Michael van der Veen said: Far from promoting insurrection against the United States, the president s remarks explicitly encouraged those in attendance to exercise their rights peacefully and patriotically.
That statement is demonstrably true, as the transcript of the speech shows that Trump asked his supporters to go to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Qui, however, alleges that his attorney s statement is exaggerated because Trump used the phrase peacefully and patriotically once in his speech, compared with 20 uses of the word fight .