And he did use the words “peacefully and patriotically” when he talked about marching on the Capitol.
I tend not to listen to political speeches by anyone, but I do read the transcript if I think it's important, and I did that with Trump's January 6 comments yesterday. And first, uh, wow. Talk about rambling. I've seen clips from some of his speeches, but that's the first time I've either read or watched one all the way through. Are they all that stream of consciousness/disjointed, or was that an exception? I truly don't know.
Anyway, while he did say "peacefully and patriotically", he said that early in a speech that lasted over an hour, and never repeated it or any other words relating to acting peacefully or without violence. And after he said that, he said a lot of stuff that clearly would have riled up the crowd. And this was how he ended the speech:
And again, most people would stand there at 9 o'clock in the evening and say I want to thank you very much, and they go off to some other life. But I said something's wrong here, something is really wrong, can have happened.
And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.
Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun. My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our beloved country. And I say this despite all that's happened. The best is yet to come. So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol, and we're going to try and give.
The Democrats are hopeless — they never vote for anything. Not even one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help. We're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I want to thank you all. God bless you and God Bless America. Thank you all for being here. This is incredible. Thank you very much. Thank you.
I still don't think he said anything criminal, but having read his whole speech, I think it was needlessly inflammatory and irresponsible.
One thing that's kind of sad/funny is that in this closing, he implied that he was going to be marching with those people. "
we're going to the Capitol", and "
we're going to try and give", and "
let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue". And earlier in the speech, he flatly stated he was going to be walking with them:
"Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down, we're going to walk down."
And obviously, he didn't go with them, and had them go by themselves. And he didn't go anywhere except right back to the White House. Again, not criminal, but just more Trumpian lying.
