How strongly do you believe in freedom of speech?

If the President is doing nothing more than expressing an opinion, I don't think it would be illegal.

But if the President, hypothetically speaking, gets on the phone with the secretary of state of a state and, spouting obvious falsehoods about the election, urges that secretary of state to "find votes" that would give him the election, and if he stands in front of a crowd at the same time the Senate is convening to count the votes of electors, and whips up a large crowd and puts pressure on his Vice President to refuse to do his Constitutional duty, and if the crowd immediately after the speech storms the Capitol, injuring many law enforcement officers, and if that same President sits in his White House for several hours doing absolutely nothing to quell the violent takeover of the Capitol building, then I think at some point it's no longer protected speech; it's an act; it's a violation of legal and constitutional duty. That's my take.
The offence of inciting people to exercise their 2A rights.
 
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