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Sure a bunch of fuckwits did some dumb shit, and quite a few did some really bad shit. For all of them, I fully support throwing the book at them. However, there is zero proof that Trump is culpable in it.
If you really want to block me but can't, I'll go ahead and stop engaging you. I fully respect your wishes and I'm truly sorry if whatever I said somehow caused you grief. I wish the best for you and hope that someday you'll look back on this conversation objectively, and not through a lens polarized by political beliefs.
Read the ruling I linked and all the cited case law in it. Here's some relevant portions:
If you want the links and citations, they're in the PDF; the text is largely unedited, I just removed paragraph markers and numbering. But you're not sorry, and you don't respect anyone. You'll deny and deflect and trot out any meaningless tripe in response to actual evidence, because you don't want to live in this reality. That's why I don't want to engage with you anymore. The best you've got is a "nuh-uh 🤡". Good luck with that, and good day.
I've read the "relevant portions", however, in them I still fail to see how Trump himself is implicated. It would be the same if I were to imply that the BLM riots in Minneapolis during 2020 were instigated by Maxine Waters. I'm not, as each individual chooses to riot, and implying that Waters, even with her rhetoric, is not the one at fault for the riot in Minneapolis, just as Trump is not responsible for the riot in DC. You'll forgive me if I don't trust a ruling handed down by a court that's sympathetic to Trump's opposition.
I'm more than happy to engage in a civil discussion about this, and any other issues, but from all sides, there's no "there" there when it comes to Trump as a traitor or insurrectionist. Simply a man who was upset about losing an election and the refusal of states to investigate into abnormalities, real OR imagined by the Trump campaign. If he truly was a dictator, he would have refused to leave on 1/20. He didn't. The peaceful transfer of power occurred like it has throughout our history. The lack of charges of treason and/or insurrection by now, especially with the different factions within both the democrat AND republican parties makes that quite clear - there's no evidence of such.