Castro: ‘Trump Spent Months Inciting His Base to Believe the Election Was Stolen’

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CASTRO: “Senators, Donald Trump spent months inciting his base to believe that their election was stolen. And that was the point, that was the thing that would get people so angry. Think about that. What it would take to get a large group of thousands of Americans so angry to storm the Capitol. That was the purpose behind Donald Trump saying that the election had been rigged and that the election had been stolen. And to be clear, when he says the election is stolen, what he is saying is that the victory — and he even says one time, the election victory is being stolen from them. Think about how significant that is to Americans. Again, you’re right, over 70 million — I think 74 million people voted for Donald Trump. And this wasn’t a one-off comment. It wasn’t one time. It was over and over and over and over and over again.”