WHEN YOU READ ABOUT THE DISINFORMATION, ACTS OF VIOLENCE, AND THE INFORMATION ACQUIRED FROM BOTH TRUMP IMPEACHMENT TRIALS, AND THE MUELLER REPORT, ONE THING BECOMES APPARENT: THE CAPITOL INSURRECTION LED BY TRUMP WAS SIMPLY AN ALTERNATE PLAN TO WEAKEN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, BOTH DOMESTICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. WHEN THE "FIX" FAILED IN THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, UNLIKE 2016, PLAN B WAS TO UTILIZE TRUMPS YEARS OF COURTING AND SUPPORTING XENOPHOBIC, RACIST, WHITE SUPREMACIST HATE GROUPS etc, TO DO WHAT A LEGAL ELECTION COULD NOT DO: RETURN HIM TO POWER, OR SO WEAKEN THE U.S. SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THAT HOSTILE FOREIGN POWERS WOULD BE ABLE TO TOPPLE THE U.S. FROM THE POSITION AS THE WORLDS LEADING ECONOMIC, MILITARY AND POLITICAL POWER.
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
There’s no evidence of Antifa involvement in the US Capitol insurrection, according to NBC, Snopes and fact-checkers.
Hundreds of people have been arrested for their involvement in the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. Dozens of those arrested have proven connections to far-right movements, according to NPR. There is no evidence that anyone involved in the insurrection has any connection to the Antifa movement, according to The New York Times, Snopes and other fact-checkers.
- Former President Trump's impeachment defense team falsely claimed that Antifa was involved in the January 6 insurrection, according to NBC News and Axios
- Dozens of people arrested for their involvement in the January 6 insurrection have connections to far-right movements, according to NPR
- There is no evidence that anyone involved in the insurrection has any connection to the Antifa movement, according to Snopes and The New York Times.
Fact check: Trump attorney suggests Antifa was involved in infiltrating Trump supporters during Jan. 6 protests.
There’s no evidence of widespread Antifa involvement and no criminal complaints filed so far accuse anyone of being involved with Antifa.
Despite claims about John Sullivan and antifa involvement, there is no evidence that the mob was anyone but Trump supporters.
THIS IS FROM ARTICLE 1, SECTION 3, CLAUSE 6. OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.
6:The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation.
Jurors
Republican senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Lindsey Graham, who are jurors in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, met with the former president's defense team on Thursday night
House Democrats used the words of the Capitol rioters to emphasize former President Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack in an attempt to bolster their impeachment case against him.
On Thursday, the third day of the Senate trial, Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., a member of the House impeachment team, pointed to statements made by some of the alleged rioters and their attorneys to argue that Trump incited the riot by calling on his supporters to march down to the Capitol at a rally before the incident.
“More and more insurrectionists are admitting that they came at Trump’s direction,” DeGette said, pointing to statements made by defendants Riley June Williams and Dominic Pezzola through their attorneys, and social media posts allegedly written by Samuel Fisher and Troy Smocks.
“Today president Trump told us to fight like hell,” Smocks posted on Parler on Jan. 6, according to a criminal complaint cited in a BuzzFeed story, which DeGette used in her presentation. “[Trump] said that our cause was a matter of national security.”
Rep. Diana DeGette. (Reuters)
An attorney for Pezzola, Michael Scibetta, told Reuters that “the boss of the country said, ‘People of the country, come on down, let people know what you think. The logical thinking was, ‘He invited us down.’”
BuzzFeed reported that Fisher allegedly wrote this on his personal website on Jan. 6: “Trump just needs to fire the bat signal...deputize patriots...and then the pain comes.”
DeGette also played footage from the attack in which a person shouts, “We’re invited here. We were invited. We were invited by the president of the United States.”
“Donald Trump told these insurrectionists to come to the Capitol and ‘stop the steal,’” DeGette said.
Reuters As federal authorities pursue criminal charges against the Capitol rioters, some defendants are now shifting blame to Trump, telling authorities and the media that they only went to the U.S. Capitol because the president told them to.
Albert Watkins, a St. Louis-based attorney who’s representing Jacob Chansley, the shirtless, horned-helmet-wearing man known as the “QAnon shaman,” told Yahoo News last month that his client among others heeded the call of the president to save the country.
“They listened to [Trump] and his cohorts speak to them in a fashion that is akin to a high school football coach on a Friday evening talking to his team and getting them all hyped up in the locker room before he runs out to the football field with them,” Watkins said.
Trump supporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6. (Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images)
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This year’s meeting will feature the popular Teaching Hub, a three-day series of workshops and sessions that address the teaching of philosophy at all levels. The Teaching Hub, sponsored by the APA and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, will run from Thursday, February 25, through Friday, February 26, 2021. Central Division meeting registrants are invited to attend any or all of the sessions.
The 2021 Central Meeting Teaching Hub will include the following sessions (visit the APA website for details):
Collaborative Assignments and Community in Online Classes
Experiential Workshop on Chinese Contemplative Body Practices
Antiracist Pedagogies: Black Lives Matter in the Classroom
What Introductory Students Wish their Philosophy Professors Knew
Teaching Existentialism Today
Graduate Voices in Teaching Philosophy
AAPT Workshop: The Strengths of Specifications Grading
New Research in Pre-College Philosophy
Closing Reception: Undergraduate Research and Faculty SoTL Poster Session
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