Trump Says Jan. 6 Was an Insurrection - eviltoast

Trump’s legal team also tried to throw cold water on the idea in a filing earlier this week, writing that the “events of January 6 were not an ‘insurrection’ as they did not involve an organized attempt to overthrow or resist the U.S. government.”

Trump disagrees, apparently.

“They kept saying about what I said right after the insurrection,” he said outside Mar-a-Lago after arguments concluded in Washington, D.C. “I think it was an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi.

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    9 months ago

    Dishonest, am I? I’ve answered each of your insultingly inane questions as honestly as I can. My answers just aren’t as binary as you were hoping.

    In your grocery store analogy, telling me not to choose plastic may be the same as telling me to choose paper from your perspective, but that ignores the option of choosing neither and taking my items out in the cart to load them into my car without bags.

    You go on to say I should answer yes or no to whether I believe one candidate is worse than the other, but those aren’t the only options. If you insist I use one of those specific words in my answer, then my answer is yes and no. They’re wildly different, but either will likely pull us into World War III. One is more likely to have an immediately harmful effect on a marginalized class, while the other is more likely to have an immediately harmful effect on a different (but not mutually exclusive) marginalized class. There’s no lesser between these two evils; they’re just evil in different ways.