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(7,433 posts)It's quite likely that they will find that the White House/Trump was talking to the insurrectionist leaders WHILE THEY WERE IN THE CAPITOL BUILDING.
Ferryboat
(922 posts)All he did was encourage a mob. Mob mentality takes over. Can be extremely dangerous and uncontrollable as we witnessed.
Putin had nothing to do with it. This all on the traitor in chief.
pwb
(11,287 posts)It looked like trump released the asylum and dressed them up. The confederate flag carrier looked like Satan's spawn. Yes it was staged and paid for. Blackwater types being paid big bucks will do anything. Trump just released those killers from Iraq they owed him.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)how the Capitol Police weren't ready for this.
I'm assuming they did not want to post people in riot gear on the Capitol steps, ask for National Guard help, etc., because of the criticism from this summer. But that was a mistake.
sarisataka
(18,733 posts)Why pay when you have plenty of volunteers who will work for free?
The boogie man isn't under every bed. Sometimes a cluster fuck is simply a domestic cluster fuck
duforsure
(11,885 posts)And had cheerleaders start up the chants for others to follow with , I think that same tactic could have been done with this also. Keep them worked up , then promote their actions helping to storm the capital building.
progressoid
(49,992 posts)Those dipshits went willingly.