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 using his Twitter account for 12 hours, “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Similarly, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook, within 24 hours, removed from their platforms a similarly inflammatory video the President had released earlier that day. Facebook justified its removal of the video because of its conclusion that the President’s words on balance “contribute[d] to rather than diminishe[d] the risk of ongoing violence.”

On January 7, despite pleas from advisers and allies to address the horrified nation, President Trump remained publicly silent throughout the day—failing to take responsibility for his actions or to take any step to salve the wounds suffered by the nation and government that he had sworn an oath to serve. That evening, the President finally addressed the nation in a prerecorded, scripted video. Although the President’s recorded remarks belatedly acknowledged that “demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol” had “defiled the seat of American democracy,” he failed to rebuke his supporters for attacking the halls of Congress in his name. Most importantly, the President expressed no remorse for—and did not even acknowledge—his own central role in inciting the attackers to desecrate the seat of American government and endanger the lives of thousands of men and women, including Capitol Police and other law enforcement, Members of Congress, Capitol and congressional staff, and many others working in service of the American government on January 6, 2021.

In the ensuing days, the President’s absence of remorse became even more stark. Instead of working to repair the damage he had caused, he added yet more fuel to the anti-democratic fire his past conduct had ignited. On January 8th, the President tweeted: “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” That same day, the President announced by tweet that he would “not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th” to observe the sacred American tradition of the peaceful transfer of power from one President to the next.

Later that day, the President used the White House’s official @POTUS account to tweet yet more inflammatory material, falsely asserting that “Twitter employees have coordinated with