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Eyeball_Kid

(7,433 posts)
1. DOJ will comb the communications patterns between the White House and the unsurrectionists.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 12:06 PM
Jan 2021

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)
2. Trump would never spend his own money
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 12:09 PM
Jan 2021

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)
3. There were a lot of Trump shirts and flags everywhere.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 12:12 PM
Jan 2021

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)
4. The rally has been planned for weeks and trump was encouraging them. I still cannot understand
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 12:23 PM
Jan 2021

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)
5. It was publicly planned for weeks
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 12:23 PM
Jan 2021

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)
6. Just like he's done with his rally's where he's paid people to attend,
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 12:38 PM
Jan 2021

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.

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