Trump's Ellipse speech called for peaceful protest. Omitting that matters. The House committee also examined his conduct during the Capitol attack. [1]
It found that his speech ended at 1:10 p.m., his go-home video appeared at 4:17 p.m., and he resisted appeals to intervene while watching television. Those are congressional findings, not a criminal jury's verdict. [1]
The Senate subsequently acquitted Trump on incitement of insurrection because 57 guilty votes did not satisfy the two-thirds requirement. That constitutional outcome is real. It does not mean every senator endorsed his conduct, or that every person who protested peacefully committed the crimes of those who assaulted police or entered unlawfully. Separate individual actions, the president's responsibility and the legal test for incitement. [2]
