How direct is the connection between what President Donald Trump communicated to his supporters and their actions in laying siege to the U.S. Capitol? Videos recorded by many individuals over the course of the day provide some answers.
Below is the video followed by reactions to it from former senior Justice Department officials and former federal prosecutors.
The video segments sourced from Parler include a number of clips made publicly available previously by ProPublica, as well as separate footage that has not been widely referenced in the news media that was made available for downloadfollowing the much publicized scraping of publicly available information from the Parler site.
https://www.justsecurity.org/74335/fight-for-trump-video-evidence-of-incitement-at-the-capitol/