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I think it's a categorical "no" whether Trump's speech incited anything to do with the storming of the Capitol building.
The use of the word "incite" is pretty clear, legally. It means Trump would have had to have said something like, "When you get to the Capitol, you make them pay. You drag them out into the streets and show them justice!"
He'd have had to have used language that was a literal instruction to do lawlessness. His speech did not cross any lines like that.
He even instructed the protestors to be peaceful at least once, which will be a very difficult hurdle for a lawyer to prove Trump was "inciting" the lawlessness that followed.
I've heard some other messed up rumors, though... a certain Congressman had all the panic buttons removed from his office prior to the event. Needs time to be confirmed, but that's a sketchy fact at first blush.
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