President Trump cannot be an insurrectionist because there was no insurrection. There was no riot either. There was an election integrity protest, wherein the protesters were freely admitted to the Capitol by security and peacefully escorted as they paraded through the building. We've all seen the videos.
President Trump cannot be an insurrectionist because there was no insurrection. There was no riot either. There was an election integrity protest, wherein the protesters were freely admitted to the Capitol by security and peacefully escorted as they paraded through the building. We've all seen the videos.
There was no riot, and they're was definitely no military or paramilitary activity. No one attempted to form a new government, nor was there any effort to seize & hold the Capitol. The only major criminal act was the theft of Enemy of the People Speaker Pelosi's lectern.
Anyone who calls the January 6 election integrity protest an insurrection is either cluelessly ignorant, or lying. That's it.
I continue to wonder how much money the Injustices of the Colorado Supreme Kangaroo Court accepted from hostile foreign agents and NGOs. Or perhaps it was blackmail?
When there is video of windows being broken and people climbing through them--and there is video of that in the archive released by Speaker Johnson, yes, it's a riot.
Nor can we say the protestors were "peacefully escorted"--the shooting (and arguably murder) of Ashley Babbitt by Capitol Hill Police cuts rather conclusively against that grain.
But a riot is not an insurrection. This riot certainly was not an insurrection.
I dunno. The videos I've seen, of a couple fairly obvious "Anti" Fascists breaking windows - to the dismay of nearby protestors - still didn't look like much of a "riot". Particularly given the context of very real, very large black supremacy riots that year.
Nor does the murder of an unarmed peaceful protestor by a trigger happy (& perhaps ideologically motivated?) copper somehow make the election integrity protestors into rioters.
Sorry, I just can't buy it. It looked a whole lot more like a traditional peaceful political protest than any sort of riot. A whole lot more.
President Trump cannot be an insurrectionist because there was no insurrection. There was no riot either. There was an election integrity protest, wherein the protesters were freely admitted to the Capitol by security and peacefully escorted as they paraded through the building. We've all seen the videos.
There was no riot, and they're was definitely no military or paramilitary activity. No one attempted to form a new government, nor was there any effort to seize & hold the Capitol. The only major criminal act was the theft of Enemy of the People Speaker Pelosi's lectern.
Anyone who calls the January 6 election integrity protest an insurrection is either cluelessly ignorant, or lying. That's it.
I continue to wonder how much money the Injustices of the Colorado Supreme Kangaroo Court accepted from hostile foreign agents and NGOs. Or perhaps it was blackmail?
When there is video of windows being broken and people climbing through them--and there is video of that in the archive released by Speaker Johnson, yes, it's a riot.
Nor can we say the protestors were "peacefully escorted"--the shooting (and arguably murder) of Ashley Babbitt by Capitol Hill Police cuts rather conclusively against that grain.
But a riot is not an insurrection. This riot certainly was not an insurrection.
I dunno. The videos I've seen, of a couple fairly obvious "Anti" Fascists breaking windows - to the dismay of nearby protestors - still didn't look like much of a "riot". Particularly given the context of very real, very large black supremacy riots that year.
Nor does the murder of an unarmed peaceful protestor by a trigger happy (& perhaps ideologically motivated?) copper somehow make the election integrity protestors into rioters.
Sorry, I just can't buy it. It looked a whole lot more like a traditional peaceful political protest than any sort of riot. A whole lot more.