But Trump didn't cause the intersection.
Where is the evidence?
Evidence is presented at trial. The charge is in the impeachment article which can be read here:
RESOLUTION
Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high
crimes and misdemeanors.
Resolved, That Donald John Trump, President of the United States,
is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following
article of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:
Article of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives
of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people
of the United States of America, against Donald John Trump, President
of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its
impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
article i: incitement of insurrection
The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives ``shall
have the sole Power of Impeachment'' and that the President ``shall be
removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason,
Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors''. Further, section 3 of
the 14th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits any person who has
``engaged in insurrection or rebellion against'' the United States from
``hold[ing] any office . . . under the United States''. In his conduct
while President of the United States--and in violation of his
constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of
the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of
his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully
executed--Donald John Trump engaged in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by
inciting violence against the Government of the United States, in that:
On January 6, 2021, pursuant to the 12th Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, the Vice President of the United
States, the House of Representatives, and the Senate met at the United
States Capitol for a Joint Session of Congress to count the votes of
the Electoral College. In the months preceding the Joint Session,
President Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the
Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and
should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or
Federal officials. Shortly before the Joint Session commenced,
President Trump, addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, DC.
There, he reiterated false claims that ``we won this election, and we
won it by a landslide''. He also willfully made statements that, in
context, encouraged--and foreseeably resulted in--lawless action at the
Capitol, such as: ``if you don't fight like hell you're not going to
have a country anymore''. Thus incited by President Trump, members of
the crowd he had addressed, in an attempt to, among other objectives,
interfere with the Joint Session's solemn constitutional duty to
certify the results of the 2020 Presidential election, unlawfully
breached and vandalized the Capitol, injured and killed law enforcement
personnel, menaced Members of Congress, the Vice President, and
Congressional personnel, and engaged in other violent, deadly,
destructive, and seditious acts.
President Trump's conduct on January 6, 2021, followed his prior
efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the results of the
2020 Presidential election. Those prior efforts included a phone call
on January 2, 2021, during which President Trump urged the secretary of
state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to ``find'' enough votes to
overturn the Georgia Presidential election results and threatened
Secretary Raffensperger if he failed to do so.
In all this, President Trump gravely endangered the security of the
United States and its institutions of Government. He threatened the
integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful
transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government. He
thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the
people of the United States.
Wherefore, Donald John Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated
that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy, and the
Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner
grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law. Donald
John Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office,
and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or
profit under the United States.
