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  1. Mar 2023
    1. McCarthy argued: “It’s not Antifa, it’s Maga. I know. I was there.” “Well, Kevin,” said Trump, “I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.” “Who the fuck do you think you are talking to?”

      When reading these quotes in conversation it confused me so I tried to look into it to see if the claim the article made was true. I know not all sources are evidently true but I found the same conversation and it made more sense. The claim McCarthy argued about Maga could have happened but it had no correlation with trumps response that was quoted. In the actual conversation Trump refused to call off his rioting supporters to the capitol and this angered McCarthy leading to his statement "Who the fuck do you think you are talking to?". Then trump said "well I guess the people are more upset about the election than you are." Like I said not sure if this information I found is true but it makes a lot more sense.

    2. The rally on 6 January – “will be wild”, Trump promised – was a last-ditch attempt to intimidate the vice-president with the threat of violence into fulfilling his indispensable role in the coup, to lend support to the Republicans objecting to certification, and to delay the proceedings into a constitutional no man’s land.

      This statement confuses me because how would trump think that by causing violence it would benefit himself. Although the people were successful in getting into the capitol building, the violence caused would only make his situation worse.

    3. after insurrectionists smashed several ground floor windows of the Capitol, the only ones out of 658 they somehow knew were not reinforced, that allowed rioters to pour inside

      This fact really surprised me because when I was watching this on the news I was in shock when I heard they broke through a window to get into the capital building. As previously stated there was a website called TheDonald.win and it probably included the information on what window to go through. I'm assuming this information was from someone with power in the government so it was definitely more than just citizen involvement.