I don't know exactly what you're referring to, I don't know the details of the events.

But is there a possibility there is a distinction between "I can freely share my political opinions about things" versus "I can ask/cheer on people to commit crimes without consequence"?

Did they? Can you share the text of the indictment instead of asking meaningless low effort questions?

I believe there is a difference between "ranting about election outcome on reddit as nobody" vs "encourage my supporters to invade the Congress and/or overthrow the government, as the President", because, you know, the latter actually could be illegal, and there are a bunch of laws around it.