1/ Trump's lawyers just tried to compare his months-long campaign to overturn an election with the electoral college objections I and others raised in 2017.

Let's be clear: there is zero comparison.

2/ In 2017, I and other Members of Congress spent all of 8 whole minutes putting into the record our concerns about Russian interference in the election.

We did not try to change the results.

We did not force a vote.

We did not incite a violent insurrection when we lost.

3/ Trump & his top allies spent months spreading a lie: that the election was rigged.

They planned to force a vote and spend days debating these lies.

Then they incited a deadly insurrection to prevent certification when they lost.

4/ Any comparison is beyond false equivalence. It's BS.

Trump refused to concede. He summoned an armed, angry, dangerous mob to Washington.

He incited them to attack the Capitol Building to stop the peaceful transfer of power. People died. And he sided with the attackers.

For more information about this false equivalence, I wrote an op-ed in @GlobeOpinion the day before the insurrection: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/05/opinion/america-must-choose-will-we-allow-this-attempt-overturn-an-election-become-new-normal/