BLOODSHED: For 187 harrowing minutes, the president watched his supporters attack the Capitol...

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/what-happened-trump-jan-6-insurrection/?itid=hp-top-table-main

No paywall
https://archive.ph/9btTd

President Donald Trump had just returned to the White House from his rally at the Ellipse on Jan. 6 when he retired to his private dining room just off the Oval Office, flipped on the massive flat-screen television and took in the show. At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, thousands of his supporters were wearing his red caps, waving his blue flags and chanting his name.

Live television news coverage showed the horror accelerating minute by minute after 1:10 p.m., when Trump had called on his followers to march on the U.S. Capitol. The pro-Trump rioters toppled security barricades. They bludgeoned police. They scaled granite walls. And then they smashed windows and doors to breach the hallowed building that has stood for more than two centuries as the seat of American democracy.

The Capitol was under siege — and the president, glued to the television, did nothing. For 187 minutes, Trump resisted entreaties to intervene from advisers, allies and his elder daughter, as well as lawmakers under attack. Even as the violence at the Capitol intensified, even after Vice President Mike Pence, his family and hundreds of Congress members and their staffers hid to protect themselves, even after the first two people died and scores of others were assaulted, Trump declined for more than three hours to tell the renegades rioting in his name to stand down and go home.

During the 187 minutes that Trump stood by, harrowing scenes of violence played out in and around the Capitol. Twenty-five minutes into Trump’s silence, a news photographer was dragged down a flight of stairs and thrown over a wall. Fifty-two minutes in, a police officer was kicked in the chest and surrounded by a mob. Within the first hour, two rioters died as a result of cardiac events. Sixty-four minutes in, a rioter paraded a Confederate battle flag through the Capitol. Seventy-three minutes in, another police officer was sprayed in the face with chemicals. Seventy-eight minutes in, yet another police officer was assaulted with a flagpole. Eighty-three minutes in, rioters broke into and began looting the House speaker’s office. Ninety-three minutes in, another news photographer was surrounded, pushed down and robbed of a camera. Ninety-four minutes in, a rioter was shot and killed. One hundred two minutes in, rioters stormed the Senate chamber, stealing papers and posing for photographs around the dais. One hundred sixteen minutes in, a fourth police officer was crushed in a doorway and beaten with his own baton.1

All in the first two hours.

*snip*

[maxsolomon]

1. President Sociopath.

Last edited Tue Nov 2, 2021, 12:31 AM - Edit history (1)

I could not hate him more. Worst person in America, top 10 worst people on Earth.

On edit: Now that I've read through; I'm fucking appalled again. How close he got to pulling it off, how he shut down and was glued to the TV as his plot came apart, how he gave not one shit about anything but himself. And then the GQP Congress let him off the hook.

[Justice matters.]

55. Also this:

Here’s the Jan. 4 memo from former acting Defense Secretary requiring “personal authorization” for DC National Guard to employ riot control agents & other tactics at Jan. 6 “March for Trump.”

This same day Capitol police knew of a “strong potential” for violence against Congress.

Since he was named acting Sec. Def on November 9 it looks like he was put in there to cause a stand down if that is what Trump wanted.

That’s EXACTLY why he was put there. When doofus started firing top Pentagon people soon after the election, it was the first thing I thought of - he’s preparing some kind of coup and changing the command structure so he has control of the military to deploy against Americans.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Paging United States Attorney General Merrick Garland: HELLO?

[Justice matters.]

58. And this:

Email From Trump Team Lawyer John Eastman Further Proves Conspiracy to Overturn Election Results

Glenn Kirschner

John Eastman is the Trump team lawyer who authored and attempted to implement a 6-point plan to deprive Joe Biden of his election win. New reporting shows that Eastman sent an email to an aide to Vice President Mike Pence on January 6 WHILE THE CAPITOL WAS BEING ATTACKED BY TRUMPS' SUPPORTERS, blaming Pence for the attack because he did not block Joe Biden's win. This email directly contradicts Eastman's own attempts to explain away his memo.

The disclosure of this email shows how valuable the documents, call records, visitor logs, etc., that are maintained by the National Archives will become to the House select committees investigation AND to the Department of Justice.

Nixon never attempted to conspire to violently overturn the results of a Constitutional election!

[peppertree]

59. His one regret while watching the attack: that they looked "trashy"

If that isn't him all over: a trashy, sociopathic snob.

[Progressive Jones]

86. He was absolutely correct in his "trashy" comment. The whole crowd was treasonous trash. nt

[flying_wahini]

63. You forgot Worst EVER.... Teehee

[Norbert]

2. More and more I think he is the antichrist.

[wnylib]

3. Not part of my religious belief, but

if it were, I would agree that he fits the title. But don't tell him that because it would only swell his ego even more.

[Wingus Dingus]

7. Pretty close.

[SharonAnn]

9. I have believed that for some time. Or Satan.

And I didn’t believe in that stuff a few years ago.

[Martin Eden]

15. Evangelicals believe he was chosen by God to lead America

Your belief makes more sense.

[PatSeg]

23. And I think some may actually believe

he is the anti-Christ and they take it as a sign that the End Times are at hand. They want it so badly, they will do what they can to hurry it up. These are not rational people.

[Martin Eden]

28. That's why some religious nutcases support the expansion of Israeli settlements

The End Times will supposedly come about when Jews reclaim all of the Promised Land.

disclaimer:
I do not intend this as taking any position on the I/P conflict; I'm just expanding on the irrational End Time beliefs.

[PatSeg]

31. Exactly

They are very impatient and anxious to meet their savior. They believe in the prophecies, but apparently not enough to let things unfold according to "divine plan". I guess their Lord just isn't expedient enough to suit them.

[FakeNoose]

40. There are a few crazy Catholics who believe that too

Have you ever heard of Opus Dei?

[Martin Eden]

43. Opens Dei

Extremist sect that made its way into the DaVinci Code plot, as I recall.

[Grasswire2]

74. Barr and Pompeo and Prince are all Dominionists.

Rapture ready and they were hoping to bring it using the world's greatest military for Armageddon.

[Hekate]

26. Those who believe in the Rapture also believe we'll have 1,000 years of destruction & chaos before...

… Christ comes to reign — something like that. In any case, chaos and destruction is part of the Plan.

Keep an eye on those folks.

[Martin Eden]

29. Therefore, "destruction & chaos" are to be desired

Sounds logical, though clearly insane.

[PatSeg]

32. Yep

"Oh goody, look at all that death and destruction! It must mean Jesus is on his way. Whoopee!" These are very strange people.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

81. Not sure which group is more insane--

the religious radicals or the Q-Anons. Each are increasingly dangerous, with leaders encouraging them to use lies, cruelty, & violence to achieve their goals.

[PatSeg]

82. They appear to be cut from the same cloth

I believe they share the same weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Whatever can make religious fanatics blindly follow their church leaders is probably the same with Q-Anon followers. I am sure psychologists and sociologists will be studying this phenomenon for years to come.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

83. Yeah, if they ever get out of the gulag.

Totalitarians despise intellectuals.

[PatSeg]

93. Sadly, that dawned on me as well

Who will our future scholars and historians be?

[yellowdogintexas]

53. There is a church back in my home town which literally imploded

over that thousand years. One group firmly believed the thousand years of chaos and destruction would come before Christ's return, one group believed Christ would return first and trigger the thousand years.

There was a third group which did not really care.

Following the first group, it would seem that the AntiChrist comes first, triggers the thousand years then Christ would return. In this scenario we have had our thousand years and TFG is the personification of Christ returned.

In the second belief, TFG is actually Christ and we can look forward to another thousand years of chaos.

One of the groups split off, bought an old Methodist church building and started a new congregation.

I don't know which one was which since this was when I was in my teens, but the ones that stayed in the original location had to import a preacher from Louisville because there were not that many who believed the way THEY did.

[flying_wahini]

64. Chaos and Destruction from Evangelicals. Who'da thunk it?

Non believer here, just saying I wish they would get their Rapture and just Leave Now.
The world may be a lot nicer without all the religious zealots.

[calimary]

67. Ahh yes. The CRAPture.

I do find myself wondering about trump being the antiChrist. I vaguely remember reading about Jeane Dixon or some such famous psychic warning about an antiChrist - “he is alive now” and I think the added comment was about him having blond hair. But it was quite awhile ago - back in the mid-late 60s.

Back then, for some reason, I was fascinated by Jeane Dixon.

🤪

[Alexander Of Assyria]

60. Then they are all willing spawns of Satan.

[shrike3]

30. John Paul II thought Dubya was.

Obviously, he jumped the gun.

[PatSeg]

33. Yeah, he got a little ahead of himself

Probably couldn't even begin to imagine someone like Trump in the White House. Makes GW look like a clueless country bumpkin.

[Pepsidog]

41. Proof TFG is the Antichrist.

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/|

[Fritz67]

49. That article scared the heck out of me...

...and I'm an agnostic.

[Pepsidog]

54. Me too.

[SergeStorms]

61. As far as the "7 hills" go...

supposedly meaning 7 Trump Towers, Trump's name has been removed from at least one of them (Trump Tower Toronto) and I think a few others.

That said, biblical interpretation is so vague it can be folded, spindled and mutilated to mean anything, anyone wishes.

Don't lose any sleep about this, OK?

[Pepsidog]

73. I'm not much into religion but when I read that article when I came out I sent it to all my

Evangelical friends who were not amused. To coin a phrase though, it’s just like the TFG “Is right out of central casting” to be the Antichrist.

[SergeStorms]

79. That's probably why...

he keeps his hair and rug all twirled around in that ridiculous mop on top of his head, to cover the '666' tattooed on his head! 😱

[murielm99]

71. My late brother believed this.

[slightlv]

75. This is the exact article I thought of when I saw that comment!

I had no idea someone besides me saw it AND read it! Man, did it fit TFG to the bone, or did it fit! LOL!

I was one of those who saw GW as the anti-christ til TFG came on stage. I've changed my mind. Now I figure there are antichrists, plural. Each one paves the way for the next one to do a bit more dirtier work. But gods help us if there's one worse than TFG. I simply couldn't imagine, back in the day of GW, of someone like Trump. You can imagine where my lack of imagination is today. I guess today's youngsters, with their familiarity of slice and dice horror movies might better be prepared than this oldster with the love of Godzilla in her heart.

[Blue Owl]

85. Beelzeblob

[uponit7771]

97. lol

[Evolve Dammit]

4. Clearly enjoyed the coup attempt. "Stimulated"

[young_at_heart]

5. I'm 82 years old....NEVER thought I would read such a thing!!

Or....watch such a horrendous event on my television. I remember at the time, thinking....."this can't be happening" and "how is this happening?". For so many of my years our nation's capital seemed safe from "attack"! It seems the stress this horrible man has created in most of us has become permanent.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Psycho ex Machina

[UTUSN]

8. My local radio wingnut hosts called it a "protest". & Drumpf broke W. Shrub's record

of 7 minutes on 9/11 reading My Pet Goat.

[lame54]

22. Thought it was tourists...

Wait - it was Antifa and BLM
Wait - it was a false flag
Wait - it never happened
Wait...

[cilla4progress]

10. Awesome you can share this, Nevilledog!

I'm about to dig in.

KUDOS TO WAPO for this investigation and reporting! We just KNOW Congress is using this investigation, as well as Bobs Costa and Woodward book "Peril" for THEIR investigation!

Got to get this out as much as possible. No matter how it "lands," since, I'm reading on DU that 30% of Rs now believe in using violence to get theier way - it's SO important to do the right thing, make the historical record. SOME DAY reason "may" again prevail here.

[Nevilledog]

18. ...

[cilla4progress]

21. They've done a good job of laying it out.

I saw the article in Sunday's edition, but it was too much to digest in one chunk. I like how they've broken it into "chapters," with summaries at the top. And the bio of key players.

Jeezus, I hope this helps put TFG and his cadre behind bars as traitors.

187 minutes. Who was injured and/or died in that time? I hope they line it out. Back to reading.

Thanks again, Nevilledog.

*EDIT - I just discovered the timeline on the left margin, too. Wow - great job WAPO. Pulitzer-worthy for sure! Now let's just hope this helps save democracy...

[DENVERPOPS]

38. Awesome job

They have give the investigating committee a blueprint and outline to use of the entire matter they are investigating......
It went on for over THREE HORRIFICALLY LONG HOURS. It is no wonder that many trying to defend the capital are having major PTSD.

My fear is tha either way this investigation comes out, the MAGAts will be emboldened even more than they were on Jan 6th.

[cilla4progress]

47. Yep

[cilla4progress]

48. You know what, though?

Get the fuckers in jail while we still hold Congress and then let the chips fall where they may.

This is no longer a situation for even the "long game." We gotta kill this in the crib... Hmm...where have I heard that!

[Justice matters.]

69. "Get the fuckers in jail" (Agreed!)

For that, the DOJ must see that timeline, and open criminal investigations on the mob boss and his henchmen.

I wonder if sending those links to the WP timeline to Merrick Garland would help, 11 months after the treasonous conspiracy against the United States.

That's a LONG time after their crimes...

[DENVERPOPS]

95. Hell, today, 11-2

It is being reported that some of the insurrectionists are running for elected office and stand a good chance of winning a position in the NC government....

WASoooooooooF'ed.............

[Nevilledog]

65. Here's Part 1 RED FLAGS

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216004428

[malaise]

50. Great post

[Farmer-Rick]

11. On Jan 6, 2021, we watched a bunch of traitors declare war against

And attack the United States. They plotted and planned for months then set their mobs on Congress.

Yet 10 months later, not one of them has been charged for Treason.

Where is our Attorney General?

[DENVERPOPS]

39. I have though

that Garland is not the man and must be replaced by a highly trained prosecutor.........

[Champp]

12. The Republicans assaulted 140 cops that day

And their casino-hustling, draft-dodging Traitor-in-Chief pulled their strings and got the Republican proles to jerk along to his hateful, fascist plans to attack the USA violently.

Sick Republicans need to be tried, convicted, then imprisoned or banished from America since they hate our nation so twistedly.

[LaMouffette]

24. Don't forget the "bone spurs" that kept him from serving in Vietnam! Must be why he didn't march

with his minions to the Capitol like he said he would.

Will his supporters ever wake up and realize they're just pawns? Or rather, "checkerboard pieces"?

[FakeNoose]

44. They should have provided him a golf cart

He just doesn't walk anywhere, not even on a golf course.

[LaMouffette]

96. Good one! I don't think that would have projected the mighty warrior image he is so fond of

cultivating, though! Imagine Mel Gibson in Braveheart riding into battle on a golf cart!

[Mr. Ected]

13. An American Benghazi right under Trump's nose and with his full endorsement

Why can't we Benghazi his ass for a few years?

[KS Toronado]

14. And the real shame of all this is that

Almost every reQublicOn congress person voted against an investigation, nothing to see here.

[SergeStorms]

16. No, no, this is all wrong.

Those were not Trump's supporters, those were FBI Agents in league with AntiFa members who stormed the Capitol and caused all that damage. 🙄

Trump knew all of his true supporters had packed up and gone home, and then the FBI Agents, along with AntiFa rioters - wearing the very same clothes and carrying the exact same Trump flags - stormed the Capitol.

Well, there was one true Trump supporter - Ashley Babbit - who was fooled by the FBI Agents and AntiFa, and they gunned her down in a hail of bullets just because she was innocently watching everything unfold, after the FBI carried her into the Capitol against her wishes. 🙄

So that's the real truth of what happened, if we're supposed to believe Trump and his republican cult. 😉

[Justice matters.]

70. She was only visiting on a tourist tour and came up to a locked door...

... and Antifa rioter broke the window and she wanted to pass through it to visit the Chamber and take selfies...

[SergeStorms]

77. Yeah, that's the ticket!

I believe you 100%, because if there's one thing I know about Trump supporters, it's how polite and well mannered they are.

[world wide wally]

17. Apparently, this prick has all the money he can ever use so his

goal can be explained in one word: POWER
He will embrace support from any source to gain it.

[ShazamIam]

19. I guess 187 minutes sounds shorter than 3 hours, the directions must be, always minimize, even when

pretending to be critical.

[jeffreyi]

20. Crap.

Couldn't even finish.

[Champp]

25. Republican Zero fiddles with his wee winkie while Washington burns

[Escurumbele]

27. What else is new? Why is it that he is still roaming around spewing hate when he should be in jail?

This gets worst every day, why aren't Democrats doing more? Why is Garland still there if he is not going to do anything about it?

I am so tired, so sick and frustrated about the whole thing...a minority getting away with murder, because that is what it is.

[marieo1]

34. Disgusting piece of humanity

My question is "WHY THE HELL ISN'T DJT IN PRISON?"

[gratuitous]

35. All these facts are and have been publicly available

But for some reason, the details have slipped down the collective Memory Hole of the media and the reporters covering this. It's very helpful that the Post has put together this timeline, but it's an appalling indictment of the media that so much of this has been forgotten.

[DENVERPOPS]

42. It helps immensely

that 80+% of the Media in America is owned by rich or uber wealthy Republicans.........

[LymphocyteLover]

36. Pure evil, & the GOP is in thrall to it or is too cowardly to confront their deranged base

and neither is the media a whole lot better in calling out trump for the evil traitor he is.

[Pas-de-Calais]

37. No doubt gave him a chubby

[DENVERPOPS]

45. Trump

AND countless other Republican Politicians who were envisioning that they would be in office forever due to this event ending legitimate elections in the United States.....................No more fundraising events, no more debates, etc etc etc

[lame54]

51. Think you mean a Shiitake

[samplegirl]

46. And the beat goes on..

N.E. Ohio Republican Headquarters and downtown.

[cilla4progress]

52. HERE WE GO

NICOLLE WALLACE!

GO GET 'IM NICOLLE!

[DeeNice]

56. I almost missed that there are 3 parts to this...

See the Before, During, and After links under the title.
Great journalism has saved us in the past. I hope it does here too but it's a way different world.

[chia]

57. Just finished all the BEFORE/RED FLAG chapters, now starting BLOODSHED

One of the most stunning investigative pieces I've ever read.

[Nevilledog]

66. I wasn't around much yesterday, missed the Red Flags.

I did an op on it now, no paywall

[chia]

76. I rec'd it this afternoon. :) I'm a WAPO subscriber so can give excerpts if the no pay wall changes

[tanyev]

62. He was waiting for it to succeed.

Then he would have wanted to go to the Capitol and strut around like a newly-crowned God Emperor.

[SunSeeker]

88. Exactly. He only called them off when it became obvious Pence wouldn't play along.

[The Jungle 1]

68. There were no rioters.

There were treasonous terrorist who assaulted my government.
It was not a fucking roit! It was treason!

[live love laugh]

72. And he was never in danger or afraid nor were Secret Svc.

[sarcasmo]

78. 187 minutes, TFG thought the election would be over turned.

[calimary]

80. This is one WOWZER of a report.

Stunning stuff!

[YoshidaYui]

84. He had to be very happy

on that thing alone, he should be checked mentally. being full of glee , while watching an insurrection he started..

[SunSeeker]

87. When he finally spoke, he told them he loved them.

[EndlessWire]

89. All of them really stupid people

They should be jailed just for being really stupid.

I think that most of them were Trump supporters hell bent on supporting the bozo that promised to march with them. But, I think that most them were used as cover for a few of them who knew what was really going on. How do you sort that out? Yes, they supported Trump, but did they think they were doing a coup on the Congress? I dunno. They are all lucky, well except a few, they weren't ALL shot down for what they did. Other countries would have sprayed them with automatic fire and been done with that.

Timing is everything. I think the report on 1/6 will be ready to support Midterms. I am not against Garland; we don't know the strategy. And, I'm not sad that every last shriveled ass one of those idiots isn't languishing in jail. They have a lot to think about. If I were one of them, I wouldn't be supporting Trump anymore. He didn't live up to the hype.

[DeeDeeNY]

90. How is it that Trump hasn't been indicted yet?

[lindysalsagal]

91. "Trump watched the attack play out on television and resisted acting, neither to coordinate a federa

federal response nor to instruct his supporters to disperse. He all but abdicated his responsibilities as commander in chief — a president reduced to mere bystander. "

Twice impeached and continuously investigated, never winning the majority of votes.

[mnmoderatedem]

92. of all the ironies engulfing trump supporters, the worst is this:

in the aftermath of the insurrection, trump hobnobbed with Ashli Babbit family members, sympathized with them, and tried to turn Babbit into a martyr.

However if he had not sat on his ass for 2 1/2 hours doing nothing before calling off his rabid base, Babbit would still be alive.

[oldsoftie]

94. If the cops had opened fire at the first violence, it would've ended.

I know if I had been the cop getting smashed between the door & frame,I would've emptied my weapon and dealt with the action later.
Fuck anyone attacking like that