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Capitol Demonstration Question

Here’s a question no one is asking. Why was Trump, leader of the Executive branch, responsible for protecting the Capitol, the home of the Legislative branch? Why aren’t Schumer and Pelosi on the hook for protecting the Capitol? It’s their office building.
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Carla · 61-69, F
He is charged with protecting our country.
Just curious...
If these people had been blm or antifa, or isis...would trump had called up the national guard?
He sure didn't hesitate to use them, and park police, against peaceful protesters when he wanted to clear them out for a photo op.
redredred · M
@Carla He did offer Pelosi the National guard; she refused.

https://mynbc15.com/news/nation-world/trump-admin-was-ready-to-deploy-national-guard-on-jan-6-capitol-police-timeline-shows-january-donald
Carla · 61-69, F
@redredred that was lie by djt. Just because he said he offered it, doesnt make it so.
Btw...in washington, potus is in charge of the national guard.
Northwest · M
@Carla I like how he calls it a "demonstration". 🤣

We'll call the British sacking of the Capitol a demonstration.
Carla · 61-69, F
@Northwest or the oklahoma bombing. Yes...just demonstrations.
gol979 · 41-45, M
@Carla @Northwest do you not have any questions over the "insurrection"? For starters it makes no sense. These are perceived patriots and sullying the cathedral of statism, capitol building, doesnt really ring true @Carla no questions on the official narrative of okc bombings?
redredred · M
@Carla And POTUS is not allowed to “invade” the Capitol that’s why he had to make the offer to Pelosi (which he did) rather than directly order the guard to deploy.
Northwest · M
@gol979 [quote]do you not have any questions over the "insurrection"? For starters it makes no sense. These are perceived patriots and sullying the cathedral of statism, capitol building, doesnt really ring true[/quote]

Huh? can you switch to English, please.
gol979 · 41-45, M
@Northwest the ppl that allegedly stormed the building are patriots, right? Why would they desecrate of symbol they adore?

Can i ask, what do you think happened?
@redredred claims [quote]He did offer Pelosi the National guard; she refused.[/quote]
Following your link, here's the answer:
[quote]... former President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told Fox News’s Sean Hannity.[/quote]
Meadows said it to Hannity; that doesn't make it true.

For a contrasting perspective,
[quote]Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, testifying remotely through a video link, told a House committee that her agency head had requested military backup about a half-dozen times in the first hour after the Capitol complex was breached on Jan. 6, the day of the insurrection.

Pittman based her assessment on phone records her agency obtained for then-Chief Steven Sund showing he reached out to the Capitol's top security officials starting shortly before 1 p.m. in the first of six calls requesting the National Guard to respond.

"Chief Sund spoke to both sergeants-at-arms to request National Guard support," Pittman told a House panel on Thursday in her first testimony in a public congressional hearing on the siege.

. . .

Pittman said the phone records obtained reflect that Sund first reached out to Irving to request the National Guard at 12:58 p.m. on the day of the attack. She said Sund then called the Senate sergeant-at-arms at the time, Michael Stenger, at 1:05 p.m.

She said Sund repeated his request in a call at 1:28 p.m. and then again at 1:34 p.m., 1:39 p.m. and 1:45 p.m. that day.[/quote]
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/971329984/capitol-police-chief-records-prove-immediate-calls-for-military-backup-on-jan-6
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@ElwoodBlues The Guard was refused by nancy, makes one wonder why, does it not?
Northwest · M
@gol979 [quote]the ppl that allegedly stormed the building are patriots, right? Why would they desecrate of symbol they adore?[/quote]

Are you deaf and blind? Or do you only follow specific sites.
@sunsporter1649 [quote]The Guard was refused by nancy,[/quote]
Says who? That claim doesn't appear in any sworn testimony.

It's just a convenient lie spewed by Meadows & Hannity to be swallowed by suckers like yourself.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@sunsporter1649 Found any of those alleged millions of alleged ballots printed by foreign countries?
No? Not a SINGLE ONE???
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@sunsporter1649 Five people died in Trump's insurrection. Remember how upset you guys got when four people died at Benghazi?

I'll remind you. Republicans in Congress formed eight special committees to investigate the terrorist events in Benghazi. No, I am not making this up. There were eight separate taxpayer funded republican controlled congressional committees who all investigated the events in Benghazi. And now you trivialize the Jan 6 insurrection.

BTW, 185 of Trump's volunteer insurrectionists have already been convicted for their crimes on Jan 6, and over 600 have been charged and are awaiting trial.

But you believe Benghazi was more serious, [b]LOL!!![/b]
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@ElwoodBlues Maybe a bigger one would help.

@sunsporter1649 Found any of those alleged millions of alleged ballots printed by foreign countries?
No? Not a SINGLE ONE??

Maybe that shovel will help, [b]LOL!!![/b]
ron122 · 41-45, M
@Carla Peaceful protesters🤣🤣🤣
@Carla "Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?" DJT. A quote from Defense Secretary Mark Espers' book when protesters descended on D.C. following the murder of George Floyd May 25, 2020.
@redredred And 9/11 was just some tourists who got too close to a landmark.