Tweet - "What we heard today from Donald Trump's lawyers is that he can no longer be held accountable for his actions to provoke a terrorist mob to violently overthrow a legitimate government process because he is no longer a sitting President. That's wrong."

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Date: Feb. 9, 2021

"What we heard today from Donald Trump's lawyers is that he can no longer be held accountable for his actions to provoke a terrorist mob to violently overthrow a legitimate government process because he is no longer a sitting President. That's wrong."

"To my colleagues who believe the First Amendment was designed to protect the efforts of a lame duck President to overthrow our government, you might as well create a recipe for a democracy to die of its own accord."

"No one, not even the President of the United States, has a First Amendment right to incite an insurrection against our government. That's not a right--it's a high crime."

"We cannot create a "January exception' for the President of the United States. An attempted coup that is not punished is simply a warm-up for the next time. Donald Trump is subject to a court of impeachment and will be tried by the Senate."

@SenatorDurbin


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