Former President Donald Trump told Facebook's oversight board that his supporters were "law-abiding" during the Capitol riot, arguing that nothing he said on Jan. 6 could "reasonably be interpreted as a threat to public safety," according to portions of his comments made public on Wednesday.
The remarks were submitted to Facebook's oversight board on Trump’s behalf through the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative Christian group, and "a page administrator," according to the board's full decision...
Trump's statement further argues that the terms “fight” and “fighting” used during his rally speech that day “were linked to a call for lawful political and civic engagement,” concluding “those words were neither intended, nor would be believed by any reasonable observer or listener to be a call for violent insurrection or lawlessness.”
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