It depends
Posted on: January 14, 2021 at 12:46:48 CT
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and it may require an amendment of the Articles of Impeachment.
If you find that the protest (and attack) was pre-planned, then I agree that it's hard to say that Trump's words "incited" it at that moment in time.
However, if you take the position that the planning, protest and attack were the culmination of his incredible and unsupportable position that certain elections were fraudulent, despite all evidence to the contrary, then I think you could support the idea that he fomented the very planning, protest and attack and that those acts should bar him from ever holding public office again in the future.
So, I think it depends on how it is "framed" so to speak.
I said before they impeached him that I don't know why they're doing it - I would let him slink off into the sunset, but I do think it's a) constitutionally allowed (or at the very least, not barred) and b) a position that can be logically supported, whether you agree with it or not.