The truth about what happened. It was NOT a "tour group".
From The Huffington Post;In response to:
Cop Nearly Killed By Trump Mob Rips GOP For ‘Peddling Bullshit’ On U.S. Capitol Riot
D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone says Republican riot-denial “is an assault on every officer that fought to defend the Capitol.”
By Ed Mazza
A D.C. police officer who was captured by the Jan. 6 mob at the U.S. Capitol and nearly beaten to death is calling out Republican lawmakers who are openly denying the violence that happened that day.
Officer Michael Fanone told CNN’s Don Lemon:
“I’m not interested in getting into political squabbles. I’m not a politician. I’m not an elected official. I don’t expect anybody to give two shits about my opinions. But I will say this: Those are lies. And peddling that bullshit is an assault on every officer that fought to defend the Capitol. It’s disgraceful.”
DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone speaks after @CNN obtained bodycam video showing him being brutally assaulted at the Capitol on Jan 6.
He tells @donlemon the lies being told about that day are “an assault on every officer that fought to defend the Capitol.” pic.twitter.com/OGjtMCSBcB
— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) May 14, 2021
The mob, egged on by then-President Donald Trump, was attempting to stop the certification of the 2020 election and keep Trump, who lost, in power. Many Republicans have since tried to defend Trump, and they’ve canceled anyone in the party who dared to criticize him. State and local GOP bodies have censured Republicans for speaking out, and this week, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) was purged from party leadership in the House for blaming Trump for the insurrection and calling out his lies about the election.
Since the attack, several GOP lawmakers have gone into full denial mode, with Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) claiming “there was no insurrection” and insisting the footage from that day looked like “a normal tourist visit.”
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who was blamed by his own family for helping to incite the riot, called the insurrectionists “peaceful patriots” who were “harassed.”
Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) even claimed that the real victims were Trump supporters.
And Trump has said the rioters were “hugging and kissing” the police.
Video from Fanone’s bodycam broadcast on CNN footage he watched with Lemon showed otherwise. He was assaulted by the mob, beaten with a flagpole and zapped with a stun gun:
Cop Nearly Killed By Trump Mob Rips GOP For ‘Peddling Bullshit’ On U.S. Capitol Riot
D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone says Republican riot-denial “is an assault on every officer that fought to defend the Capitol.”
By Ed Mazza
A D.C. police officer who was captured by the Jan. 6 mob at the U.S. Capitol and nearly beaten to death is calling out Republican lawmakers who are openly denying the violence that happened that day.
Officer Michael Fanone told CNN’s Don Lemon:
“I’m not interested in getting into political squabbles. I’m not a politician. I’m not an elected official. I don’t expect anybody to give two shits about my opinions. But I will say this: Those are lies. And peddling that bullshit is an assault on every officer that fought to defend the Capitol. It’s disgraceful.”
DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone speaks after @CNN obtained bodycam video showing him being brutally assaulted at the Capitol on Jan 6.
He tells @donlemon the lies being told about that day are “an assault on every officer that fought to defend the Capitol.” pic.twitter.com/OGjtMCSBcB
— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) May 14, 2021
The mob, egged on by then-President Donald Trump, was attempting to stop the certification of the 2020 election and keep Trump, who lost, in power. Many Republicans have since tried to defend Trump, and they’ve canceled anyone in the party who dared to criticize him. State and local GOP bodies have censured Republicans for speaking out, and this week, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) was purged from party leadership in the House for blaming Trump for the insurrection and calling out his lies about the election.
Since the attack, several GOP lawmakers have gone into full denial mode, with Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) claiming “there was no insurrection” and insisting the footage from that day looked like “a normal tourist visit.”
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who was blamed by his own family for helping to incite the riot, called the insurrectionists “peaceful patriots” who were “harassed.”
Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) even claimed that the real victims were Trump supporters.
And Trump has said the rioters were “hugging and kissing” the police.
Video from Fanone’s bodycam broadcast on CNN footage he watched with Lemon showed otherwise. He was assaulted by the mob, beaten with a flagpole and zapped with a stun gun:
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Reservations are available 90 days in advance. U.S. residents may also contact the offices of their representative or senators. Many congressional offices offer their own staff-led tours to constituent groups of up to 15 people, and most can assist you in reserving a tour of the Capitol.
Nor is harming or killing others, obviously. The bottom line they were not a 'tour group', their intent included storming the capitol, do damage, interfere with the election process, steal items, take hostages, kill and create chaos. It was an insurrectionist mob, not a tour group.
a Prime Suspect IMO
I remember your opinion that Trump was going to destroy Biden in the debates.
Biden had no chance. Trump was going to win in a landslide.
Only reason I can see. I don't even know how the cases are standing as of today, can't be bothered to follow all the drama. I know most is "for show", read political reasons.
Hi Jim. Tour group is just silly. But perhaps their best defense lol.
Trump + a handfull qanons? What would be the chances of success from a scale of 1 to 100 you recon?
Would you give it 20? I would give it a -2.
If somebody tried to seize power by force that day (what a silly thought) they must have been pretty low iq'ed and badly organised. Trump knows way better, that goes without saying.
If I had I my way, the insurrectionists would be doing community service, maybe one stint with people much worse off than them and one stint with people much better off than them, like being the Trump family's cleaner.
Now that's a very interesting statement.
I'd be very wary about making those claims about someone who demonstrates persnality disorder traits.
What Trump knows may be synonymous with what Trump believes and how Trump comes to believe probably doesn't operate in the same way as it does with you and I.
Jac, I wish sooo much that you were the judge and jury when this
comes up in court...but you are unfortunately not.
I meant it based on your community service comment.
See you
If somebody tried to seize power by force that day (what a silly thought) they must have been pretty low iq'ed and badly organised.
As far as Trump knowing better, not sure. He's about average or below average intelligence, which is a lot more than many of his supporters.
More likely, he didn't care. He got what he wanted out of it.
He motivated dimwits to delay the vote outcome and lots of other dimwits to send him money. If it mattered what happened to his insurrectionists, he would have pardoned them.
Do you have a youtube video that does not require membership ?
I'm less worried than you about the Russian Bear.
I also can not think of a much better leader than V.Putin as of today for that nation.
The next one will be different, but to the better or worse from a western perspective, is hard to say.
I know he/she will not be as respected in Russia as the previous leader.
Anyw, see you around. G'nite
I know he/she will not be as respected in Russia as the previous leader.
You have to remember that a certain percentage (perhaps 35%) of the population were fooled by Trump.
This likely includes an approximately equal percentage of police.
It's more likely, that they weren't ordered to stand down, but rather a small percentage
were probably on the side of the insurgents. There should be consequences for aiding and abetting the insurgents.
Intelligence failures, orders to use less aggressive measures and equipment breakdowns contributed to the Capitol Police’s botched response, a watchdog found.
If we Accept the Findings of the Inspector General -
That raises the Possibility of a Politically Motivated False Flag ...
Which raises the Possibility that Some?/Much?/Most? of the mayhem was instigated by Agents Provocateur as Part of the False Flag.
Capitol Police personnel May've feared they'd be found culpable -
The Chief of Capitol Police resigned & Two Officers took their own lives ...
Which was Also prob'ly deemed NOT Newsworthy ...
They should have been able to hold the fort without those.
They had guns and were supposed to have shields.
Mr. Bolton found that when an operations plan was written two days later, leaders included that there were “no specific known threats related to the joint session of Congress.” His report blames dysfunction within the Capitol Police for the omission.
Department leaders have defended their actions and downplayed the intelligence reports in public testimony. “None of the intelligence we received predicted what actually occurred,” Steven A. Sund, the former Capitol Police chief, told the Senate in February. “These criminals came prepared for war.”
1) But, were they ordered to do so, or is there a more likely situation, that those officers were part of the insurgence themselves ?
2) If they were ordered, who ordered them certainly needs investigation.
See comments above
Given the level of Capitol Security on a Normal Day - The suggestion's kinda Ridiculous.
2)
HOWEVER ...
As the Prime Suspects hold Majorities in Both Houses Of Congress -
That Ain't Likely ...
1) Incompetence on an Unimaginable Scale.
2) A False Flag to advance a Political Narrative & Agenda.
That'd be the Prime Suspects who hold Majorities in Both Houses Of Congress!!
Some still believe the Chinese built those artificial Islands to build resorts!
"But, were they ordered to do so, or is there a more likely situation, that those officers were part of the insurgence themselves ? If they were ordered, who ordered them certainly needs investigation. If they were not ordered and decided to do that themselves, then they should stand trial. As I already said, Trump fooled a significant part of the population with his lies, and that includes a significant percentage of the cops. If those police aided & abetted people storming the capitol, they should suffer the sentencing of those guilty of treason. Indeed, many of the insurgents were carrying flags, which were not the USA flag."
From my own experience in life it often mean that somebody is lying.
Fame and admiration maybe, as any career oriented person would, but mostly to serve the people of the USA who like him were fed up with politicians promising to later "forget".
The job he did exceeded what anybody could expect, a wonderful job for America was what he managed.
2) You can forget about that so called justice of yours regarding Trump. He will go clear a 100%.
I'm more worried about the ones you call the insurgents, who on reality was a mix of blm/antifa in disguise placed there to fool in the most eager quanons that took the bait.
First mentioned group go clear naturally (shoved out the backdoor) but the quanons will face harsh sentences I'm afraid. How harsh? As bad as it can get without provoking a real riot.
Trump was in it for the fame, adoration, power and money. It was all abut the Trump brand and self-affirmation. That's the way it is with somene who is persnality disordered as he is.
He couldn't possibly have been in it for the American people because he is unable to emotionally empathise with others. That is clear from his behaviour when he's not reading from a script. His astonishment at Prince Charles being involved in charity work is just one example of that.
He does have some level of cognitive empathy, however, which he uses to manipulate the greedy and intelligent, or the poor and ill-educated. He does that rather too well.
Jac, tell me have you seen any of his arena speaches?
The same skills he uses with studio audiences, he uses to rabble rouse.
He's skilled at securing votes, but that doesn't mean he's presidential material. They are very different kinds of leadership.
He demonstrates a lot of traits of dangerousness, wherever he speaks.
Btw, do you agree she gets prettier by the year?
N.y.Way's, I'm off