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 were wreaking destruction in the Capitol—that “we love you, you’re very special.” To date, the President has taken no responsibility and shown no personal regret for his role in what occurred. This is clear evidence that the President acted willfully in inciting the mob.

Both members of the mob and Members of Congress recognized that it was the President who had sent the mob to Congress, they reasonably understood what he was saying, and that it was he alone who could pull them back. A man inside the Capitol was captured on video saying: “Our president wants us here … We wait and take orders from our president.” Members of Congress, in turn, called on the President to call off his mob. As Representative Mike Gallagher tweeted during the Capitol occupation, “Mr. President. You have got to stop this. You are the only person who can call this off.” Similarly, Mick Mulvaney, the President’s former Chief of Staff, tweeted, “The President’s tweet is not enough. He can stop this now and needs to do exactly that. Tell these folks to go home.” But these pleas fell on deaf ears until well into the sacking of the Capitol. That further proves willful conduct.

Many others, including current and former members of President Trump’s administration, have recognized that the President intended to incite violence aimed at the Capitol. As now former-Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos told the President, “[t]here is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation.” Lawmakers similarly recognized the President’s intent. As Senator Lisa Murkowski remarked, the President “told his supporters to fight. How are they supposed to take that? It’s an order from the president. And so that’s what they did. They came up and they fought and people were harmed, and injured and died.” Senator Mitt Romney echoed these sentiments: “What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States.” So did Senator Sasse: “This violence was the inevitable and ugly outcome of the president’s addiction to constantly stoking division.” As Representative Liz Cheney noted