Nobody forced him to whip a mob into a frenzy.
His choices produced predictable consequences.
If Trump had any desire to honestly address the committee's exploitation of his actions, he could just quote Richard Nixon's 1977 characterization of Watergate: "I gave them a sword and they stuck it in and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I'd been in their position I'd have done the same thing."
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