Fuel for Fire

2020

2020-12-15 After the Electoral College officially selected Biden as the next president, Trump posted on social media, “This Fake election can no longer stand. Get moving Republicans”.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-donald-trumps-election-denial-claims-republican-politicians/story?id=89168408

2020-12-19 Trump posted on social media “Big protest in D.C on january 6th Be there, will be wild!”

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/tweets-december-19-2020

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-january-6-univision-town-hall/

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/january-6-committee-hearing-trump-extremists/

https://www.fox6now.com/news/see-you-in-dc-president-trump-tweets-ahead-of-wild-protest-planned-for-jan-6

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/7/13/trump_summoned_mob_after_unhinged_meeting

https://virginiamercury.com/2022/07/13/trump-tweet-invited-wild-mob-to-block-transfer-of-power-on-jan-6-house-panel-says/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62140410

https://truthout.org/articles/informant-told-fbi-trump-tweet-was-call-to-arms-weeks-before-jan-6-attack/

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-incited-january-6-defendants/

2021

2021-01-02 (context) Just prior to the J6 insurrection, Ted Cruz and a group of Republican senators publicly announced their intention to vote against accepting the electoral college results.

https://abc7.com/post/ted-cruz-electoral-college-congress-certification-mike-pence/9289536/

https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/joint-statement-from-senators-cruz-johnson-lankford-daines-kennedy-blackburn-braun-senators-elect-lummis-marshall-hagerty-tuberville

2021-03-18 Trump was recorded saying the J6 rioters went because they thought the election was rigged.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/kash-patel-tells-members-media-government-after-trumps/story?id=105432592

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-raises-new-alarms-dictator-except-day/story?id=105416124