GOP Sen. Susan Collins
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“That attack was not a spontaneous outbreak of violence. Rather, it was the culmination of a steady stream of provocations from President Trump aimed at overturning the results of the presidential election,” Collins said from the courtroom. of the Senate.
Collins was one of seven Republican senators who voted Saturday to condemn Trump for inciting insurgency. Although the senators did not reach the two-thirds majority needed to convict the former president, it meant a major bipartisan disapproval of his actions.
Collins, during his speech, set a chronology of how he believed Trump had been preparing the political environment for the eventual violent crowd by repeating false allegations of widespread election fraud.
“The president’s unprecedented efforts to discredit the election results did not begin on January 6. Instead, he planted the seeds of doubt many weeks before they were voted on Nov. 3. He repeatedly told his supporters that only one.” manipulated choice “could cause him to lose,” Collins said.
Collins also noted Trump’s actions immediately after the election, where he tweeted that she was “stolen,” saying he showed he was beginning his “post-election campaign to change the outcome.”
Collins also noted an impressive call Trump made to Georgia officials, urging them to “find” about 12,000 votes, as well as efforts to get the then vice president Mike Pence
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“In this situation, the context was everything. Throwing a lighted match on a pile of dry leaves is very different from throwing it in a pool of water. And on January 6, the atmosphere among the crowd outside the White House was highly combustible, largely the result of a bad wind that blew from Washington over the past two months. ” add.
“This set the stage for the Capitol assault for the first time in more than 200 years,” he added.
Collins, who won re-election last year, is part of a shrinking group of moderates in the Senate and was seen as a crucial casting vote in the impeachment process.
As part of a one-hour question and answer session on Friday, Senator Lisa Murkowksi (R-Alaska), Senator. Mitt Romney
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“Instead of preventing a dangerous situation, President Trump created one. And instead of defending the constitutional transfer of power, he incited an insurrection in order to prevent this transfer of power from taking place,” he said. Collins.
He added that Trump, “subordinating the country’s interests to his own selfish interests, has a major responsibility for the invasion of the Capitol.”