Former President Donald Trump's attorneys are arguing that not only did their client not engage in an insurrection against the United States government, but that he was acting as a peacemaker while his supporters violently stormed the United States Capitol.
Law and Crime reports that Trump's attorneys argued in a filing before the U.S. Supreme Court this week that "President Trump never participated in or directed any of the illegal conduct that occurred at the Capitol on January 6, 2021" and, what's more, "repeatedly called for peace, patriotism, and law and order."
While it's true that Trump did tell his supporters to "peacefully and patriotically" march to the Capitol, he also waited several hours before finally heeding his advisers' calls to tell his supporters to leave the building, even as he knew they were chanting for the hanging of then-Vice President Mike Pence.
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In addition to this, testimony from former Trump official Cassidy Hutchinson claimed that Trump knew that some of his supporters were armed when he sent them down to the Capitol building, and that Trump told then-chief of staff Mark Meadows that Pence "deserved" the calls for his hanging.
Law and Crime also noted that Trump has repeatedly pledged to pardon many, if not all, of the people who stormed the Capitol on his behalf, going so far as to call them "hostages" who need to be freed.
