{"id":1988359,"date":"2023-08-01T22:46:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T02:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-murkowski-says-evidence-is-damning-on-instigating-riot\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T22:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T02:46:56","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-murkowski-says-evidence-is-damning-on-instigating-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-murkowski-says-evidence-is-damning-on-instigating-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Murkowski: Evidence against Trump in riot instigation is damning."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-indicted-murkowski-says-evidence-is-damning-on-instigating-riot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1988359&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Sen. Lisa Murkowski: Trump&#8217;s Indictment Reveals &#8220;Very Serious Allegations&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) expressed\u200d her concern over the indictment of former President Donald \u2062Trump, stating that it contains &#8220;very serious allegations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump has \u2063been charged with four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jussie-smollett-hate-crime-hoax-goes-to-trial-years-after-soros-backed-d-a-kim-foxx-dropped-charges\/\" title=\"Jussie Smollett Hate Crime Hoax Goes to Trial Years After Soros-Backed D.A. Kim Foxx Dropped Charges\">felony counts related<\/a> to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and\u2063 obstruction.<\/p>\n<h3>Standing Apart from \u2062Fellow Republicans<\/h3>\n<p>Unlike\u2063 other Republican\u200c lawmakers \u2063who defended Trump and claimed that the indictment was a result of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-senate-republicans-rip-deal-as-proof-of-two-tiered-justice-system\/\" title=\"Senate Republicans criticize Hunter Biden's plea deal, citing it as evidence of a biased justice system.\">biased justice system<\/a>, Sen. Murkowski reiterated her belief that the indictment &#8220;has\u2063 only reinforced\u200b that the former President played a key\u2064 role in instigating\u2063 the riots&#8221; on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Murkowski was one\u200c of seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump on\u2063 an impeachment charge of inciting an insurrection at the Capitol. Although it was the most bipartisan impeachment vote \u2062in U.S. history, the Senate\u200b failed to reach the two<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-murkowski-says-evidence-is-damning-on-instigating-riot\/\" title=\"Murkowski: Evidence against Trump in riot instigation is damning.\">-thirds threshold\u200b needed<\/a> to convict, resulting in Trump&#8217;s acquittal.<\/p>\n<h3>Murkowski&#8217;s \u200bStance<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;In early 2021, I voted to \u200dimpeach \u200cformer President \u2064Trump\u2064 based \u200con clear evidence that he attempted to \u200doverturn \u2064the 2020\u2062 election after losing it,&#8221; Murkowski \u2062posted on X,\u2064 the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Additional evidence presented since then, including by the January 6 Commission, has \u200bonly reinforced that the former President played \u200ca key role \u2063in instigating the riots, resulting in physical violence and desecration of \u200cthe U.S. Capitol on \u2063January \u200b6, 2021,&#8221; \u200dMurkowski\u2063 added.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Republican emphasized the importance \u2063of affording the former\u200c president \u200cthe presumption \u200cof innocence ahead of\u2063 the trial but encouraged the public to read\u2064 the \u2062indictment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I encourage everyone to read the indictment, to understand the very serious\u2063 allegations being made\u200d in this case,&#8221; \u200cMurkowski \u2064posted at the end of her thread on X.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200daddition to\u200b Murkowski, GOP\u2062 Sens. \u200dRichard \u2062Burr, Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mitt Romney\u2064 (R-UT), \u2064Ben Sasse, and Pat Toomey also voted to convict the former president. Murkowski was the only senator who voted to convict Trump and faced reelection the year following the impeachment trial, ultimately winning a fourth full term. Burr, Toomey, and Sasse retired, Romney is up for reelection in 2024,\u200b and\u200c Cassidy and \u2062Collins are up for reelection in \u20642026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK\u200b HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE\u200b WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) acknowledged the gravity of the charges against former President Donald Trump, stating that they included &#8220;very serious allegations.&#8221; Trump faces four felony counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction, in relation to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. 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