Trump Blames Pelosi for Capitol Riots

[babylonsister]

Such a GD liar...this doesn't even make sense, but does it really need to?

https://politicalwire.com/2022/04/07/trump-blames-pelosi-for-capitol-riots/

Trump Blames Pelosi for Capitol Riots
April 7, 2022 at 6:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

“Former president Donald Trump voiced regret Wednesday over not marching to the U.S. Capitol the day his supporters stormed the building, and he defended his long silence during the attack by claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were responsible for ending the deadly violence,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Trump: “I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why isn’t she doing something about it? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi doing something about it? And the mayor of D.C. also. The mayor of D.C. and Nancy Pelosi are in charge.”

He added: “I hated seeing it. I hated seeing it. And I said, ‘It’s got to be taken care of,’ and I assumed they were taking care of it.”

[gademocrat7]

1. Unrepentant criminal

who is a treasonous bastard.

[Samrob]

41. But Trump Jr. texted that they (Trump regime) controlled them all. nt

[JohnSJ]

2. That they even give this jackass the forum to push his lies is a disgrace.

[Walleye]

3. He hated seeing it, did he? Ivanka may have testified to the contrary

[True Blue American]

10. We can only hope Ivanka told the truth!

Mitch came out on the Senate and said ,” The Republicans have tried their best to keep the Supreme Court non political, but Democrats are turning it political!”

How do you like that bare arsed lie? I thought sure lightning would strike! Wishful thinking on my part?

[Walleye]

13. They are rapidly learning from Russian propagandists

[PufPuf23]

19. Would have been better had Ivanka and Jared testified not talked

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separately but where Ivanaka could not talk to Jared about his testimony before the testimony of her own. Have a hard time thinking that those willingly testifying do so in a manner to lessen the crimes and make the action less premeditated and in concert.

Wish the prosecution of the Jan 6 disrupters to be fast and straightforward and include higher ups directing and financing operations.

Hope those convicted accept the punishment and learn rather than be further radicalization or at least be less nut bag.

[Walleye]

23. I think Jared thought since he wasn't there that day, he could just go in and keep his skirts clean

Trying to stay above it all. I think his alibi may be that he was hanging out with a bone saw murderer. Ivanka is an actual eyewitness of fact to the overt crime

[smirkymonkey]

5. He makes me absolutely sick.

He is the most loathsome "thing" on the face of the earth. I cannot wait until he leaves it.

[llmart]

16. +1

I will rejoice heartedly when that day comes. The earth will be a better place once he's gone.

[smirkymonkey]

34. It will be the one day that I won't mind his name being the only topic of discussion.

I long for the day it happens.

[Totally Tunsie]

29. Hope I live long enough to see the day, smirky.

His obituary will give me the greatest pleasure I've had in years!

[smirkymonkey]

33. Oh, Tunsie! That will be the most glorious day ever!

We will all be dancing in the streets, even me. And I hate dancing.

[Emile]

6. It's what Republicans do. They sit on their hemorrhoid ass and point their

shit stained finger at innocent people to cover up their misdeeds!

They been doing this shit for years!

[SmallFry]

7. Victim blaming.

He knows little else.

[elleng]

8. and putin blames Ukrainians for deaths.

brothers of a different mother?

[WiVoter]

9. He Is Beyond Delusional

And his cult loves it. I am glad to see that the media is using the term cult more often. I think it should be used whenever his followers are referenced. I don’t know what will stop this orange monster, but I know its out there.

[global1]

11. And So It Begins - The Throwing Under The Bus Of His Supporters That...

stormed the Capitol. You know the ones that he incited in the first place. And artfully shifting the blame to others as he plays his characteristic i'm innocent act.

I wouldn't be surprised if he rehearsed this excuse with Ivanka, Jared & Meadows so they are all spewing the same crap.

You got to ask him why then was he getting the calls by Repugs in the Capitol to call it off. To make statements to the rioters.

Those Repugs knew he was in charge.

We're seeing the little scared boy Donny (bully act) play out here.

This is 'classic' Tr**p in action.

[Totally Tunsie]

30. He's being given way too much time in which to rewrite the history

of that day and spew it to his cohorts. Lather, rinse, repeat...this is the pattern he's created and followed throughout his miserable life. Deny, deny, deny.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

36. He hated seeing it, huh?

Is that why he told them the night of January 6th that "we love you, you're very special"?

Get that mother fucker on a witness stand and grill his ass under oath. He's not president anymore, why can't they do this?

Garland and the Dems need to stop effing around with this because if the Repukes get the House back, they will kill any more investigations.

[global1]

37. You Said It - He's Not President Anymore.....

What's so sacred about a president - particularly a former president - that he can't be subject to criminal investigations, be indicted and held accountable?

If a person committed a crime they should be held accountable - no matter if that person was a president or not. And as you said - he's not the president anymore.

When you think of it - I don't know of any president other than Nixon - that might have even come close to all the laws that TFG manipulated or broke.

When you compare TFG to what Nixon was accused of and resigned for - what Nixon did was small time in comparison.

In my mind - one would want to indict and jail a president (any president) that committed crimes - if only just to dissuade others in the future from even attempting anything like what TFG has been party to.

[MiHale]

12. Floating a "I didn't know" defense...

“I thought it was her job, not mine, I was only the president.”

Yeah, that works. Plus Donnie, assumptions are not a defense.

[GoCubsGo]

14. Of course, he does.

Just like he ignores the fact that there's another house of Congress occupying that building, which was, at the time, controlled by his shitbag party. Always blame the Democrat, especially if it's a woman or a black person, for your own crimes. Same shit, different day. And, his cult followers slurp it up like it was Dom Perignon and prime rib, and not the shit sandwiches he has been feeding them all along.

[kentuck]

15. The Liar

[Achilleaze]

17. Republican draft dodger whines about FAILING to lead

"It wasn't my fault I had to whimp out on violently attacking America. Hilary's emails wouldn't let me. Whine."

- Republican Whiner-in-Chief

[Tommy Carcetti]

18. "She was asking for it. Shouldn't have been wearing that dress."

Sorry, but that's basically what he's saying. Sick bastard.

[leftyladyfrommo]

20. They are going to have to screw that guy into the

ground when he croaks.

Let's hope it's soon.

[MissMillie]

21. He also has a bridge to sell you... and membership to a non-functioning social networking platorm

Only an idiot would buy this crap.

[Emile]

24. The same idiots who vote for tax breaks for tax evading billionaires?

[randr]

22. Repetition is his tell

Of course with an echo chamber in his head it is unavoidable.

[Kid Berwyn]

25. So why did Trump order the National Guard, etc. to stand down?

Pentagon placed limits on D.C. Guard ahead of pro-Trump protests due to narrow mission

By Paul Sonne, Peter Hermann and Missy Ryan
Washington Post, Jan. 7, 2021 at 9:43 p.m. EST

The Pentagon placed tight limits on the D.C. National Guard ahead of pro-Trump protests this week, trying to ensure the use of military force remained constrained, as the Guard carried out a narrow, unarmed mission requested by the city’s mayor to help handle traffic ahead of planned protests.

In memos issued Monday and Tuesday in response to a request from the D.C. mayor, the Pentagon prohibited the District’s guardsmen from receiving ammunition or riot gear, interacting with protesters unless necessary for self-defense, sharing equipment with local law enforcement, or using Guard surveillance and air assets without the defense secretary’s explicit sign-off, according to officials familiar with the orders. The limits were established because the Guard hadn’t been asked to assist with crowd or riot control.

The D.C. Guard was also told it would be allowed to deploy a quick-reaction force only as a measure of last resort, the officials said.

Then the mission abruptly changed — and the Pentagon is now facing criticism from governors and local officials who say it moved too slowly to send National Guard troops to respond, a charge that its leaders denied Thursday.

Continues...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-protests-washington-guard-military/2021/01/07/c5299b56-510e-11eb-b2e8-3339e73d9da2_story.html

[gratuitous]

32. Huh, I guess this minor detail slipped the former guy's "mind"

But we remember, and we have to keep reminding an amnesiac media that would prefer not to think about a sitting president siccing an angry violent mob on Congress that day. Also, the former guy's "regret" that he didn't march with the mob he turned loose is laughable. That fucker couldn't even walk 700 yards on the centenary observance of the end of World War I.

[twodogsbarking]

26. You fuckin' did this

you fuckin' fuck.

Channeling Ruth from Ozark.

[kentuck]

27. "And I was watching it on TV and I said..."

"Look at those flags with my brand on them! It was a great feeling! Then, a few people got out of hand, but honestly, they were just defending themselves from the police, and they actually made it worse, and I said, 'somebody should stop this'....where's Nancy? She was the one in charge...but she was too busy trying to impeach your favorite President, and finally I had to go out and speak to the people, very fine people, and they immediately left the building, or it could have been much worse. I never even got a 'Thank you' from Pelosi, after I did her job for her. It was a disgrace!"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. TFG made some amazing and dumb admissions in this interview

TFG keeps on making admissions that would drive any first rate attorney nuts which is why TFG has been relegated to using shopping center lawyers. Hint-if a lawyers office is in a shopping center, they are NOT a top rated lawyer. TFG just admitted to the Washington Post that he talked to McCarthy, Gym Jordan and others on Jan. 6 (despite a lack of phone logs concerning these calls). These statements are admissions that AG Garland can use

Confessing to illegal conduct does not make such conduct legal

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/07/trump-interview-jan-6-pressure-garland/

A central feature of Trump’s corruption is that he sometimes confesses to it in public. In this circular wizardry, Trump’s conduct can’t possibly be corrupt if he’s so eager to cop to it openly.

Here Trump appears to blithely confirm he spoke to lawmakers during the insurrection, and suggests there was nothing wrong with those calls. Presto! All wrongdoing goes poof!.....

“The key is to understand Trump’s communications about whether he intended to disrupt the electoral count through the weaponization of the rioters,” NYU law professor Ryan Goodman, who has deeply researched the insurrection’s timeline, told me.

“It’s important to know whether Trump made statements pressuring members of Congress to delay certification while the violence was going on,” Goodman said. “It could satisfy a key element of the criminal statute, which requires prosecutors to prove he was corruptly motivated in his actions.”

If TFG has engaged a criminal defense attorney, that attorney would not be happy with the Washington Post interview

[Ohio Joe]

31. 'It's got to be taken care of,'

And yet the fucker did nothing for hours... Shows his bullshit lies for what they are.

[obamanut2012]

35. Gaslighting sociopath

[struggle4progress]

38. Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.

All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!

[Bengus81]

39. Gawd...would you just STROKE out Trump??

[niyad]

40. Hey, politicalwire, it was an ATTEMPTED COUP, not a "riot".