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we have heard about this kind of behavior before in another hearing from someone else who knows all too well how trump team works. that s how he speaks. he doesn t give you questions. he doesn t give you orders. he speaks in a code. i understand the code because i ve been around him for a decade. so contrast charges of witness intimidation, the thuggish politics with the kind of politics liz cheney talked about in her speech last night when she got applause for speaking the truth. the reality that we face today as republicans, as we think about the choice in front of us, we have to choose because republicans cannot both be loyal to donald trump and to loyal to the constitution. at this moment [ applause ] interesting how republicans ....
On january 6th. as the committee, on which consider served had shown in the public hearings. likewise, the violence is not ancillary or accidental for donald trump and his maga movement. it has always been part of trump s politics. plainly right there in front of us from the earliest days of his presidential campaign. the protesters were assaulted at his rallies. trump urged his supporters to quote, knock the crap out of them. promising to pay their legal fees for assault. this violent, thuggish, intimidation, menace is one of the tools that trump faction of the right-wing american politics uses to achieve its aims. that is the picture that has emerged from the january six committee, as well as the committee unearthing more and more evidence. the violence on the day of the six was plant, it was intentional, right? it was not just somebody collective temper tantrum. that violence was reported to donald trump, he knew about it, ....
His presidential campaign. the protesters were assaulted at his rallies. trump urged his supporters to quote, knock the crap out of them. promising to pay their legal fees for assault. this violent, thuggish, intimidation, menace is one of the tools that trump faction of the right-wing american politics uses to achieve its aims. that is the picture that has emerged from the january six committee, as well as the committee unearthing more and more evidence. the violence on the day of the six was plant, it was intentional, right? it was not just somebody collective temper tantrum. that violence was reported to donald trump, he knew about it, he refused to do anything about it. in fact, he did the opposite. worse than nothing, in response to reports of the violence he sent a tweet condemning his vice president mike pence. and even, according to the committee, suggested that pence might deserve to be hanged. donald trump said that knowing a violent mob built a gala at the capitol grounds. ....
I think people heard that around the nation, and that makes the president the outgoing president sound churlish, profane, juvenile, thuggish. and yet the larger complaint, the reason he has a lot of lawyers, is that he was enraged that his orders were no longer being followed because those individuals, according to testimony, refused the unlawful order to interfere with or try to illegally overthrow the vote. yeah, this is one of the, i mean, truly impactful parts of the hearings from an evidentiary standpoint, because what we re hearing not just that they re lawyers, but they re trump loyalists. there are people who are completely on his side in his camp, did everything they could for him to win election and stay in office except violate the ....
Backlash after he put in place a tip line or some calling it a snitch line for parents to report divisive subjects that are taught in classrooms like critical race theory even though you don t see critical race theory thought in virginia schools. some people, anything that makes kids uncomfortable about our civil rights history, calling that critical race theory. what is your response to this controversy that s bubbled up about this tip line put in there? it s crazy. you know, it s they re creating an issue that doesn t exist. but that s what these guys do. i mean, they create this brouhaha about critical race theory. bob good goes into schools and school board meetings encouraging people, don t wearing a masks. tells the kids, i mean, he actually was recorded telling kids to defy your principal. don t wearing a masks. and this is the kind of rhetoric and behavior that encourages ....