Sen. Rand Paul says a Senate impeachment trial for former President Trump is hypocritical kabuki theater by Democrats who called for supporters to get physical with Republican lawmakers.
The Kentucky Republican called it farcical for his Democratic colleagues to claim “incitement to violence” by Mr. Trump on Jan. 6 near the Capitol when explosive rhetoric by Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Maxine Waters appears to be a non-issue.
“What of Democrat incitement to violence? … No Democrat will ask whether Cory Booker incited violence when he called for his supporters to get ‘up in their face’ of congresspeople — a very visual and specific incitement,” Mr. Paul said. “No Democrat will ask whether Maxine Waters incited violence when she literally told her supporters, and I quote, that ‘if you see a member of the Trump administration at a restaurant, at a department store, at a gas station, or anyplace, you create a crowd and you push back on them.’ Is that not incitement?”…
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