(01-07-2021, 05:15 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-at...ice-2021-1

The supporters of President Donald Trump who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday to stop the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory were attempting a violent coup that multiple European security officials said appeared to have at least tacit support from aspects of the US federal agencies responsible for securing the Capitol complex.

The French police official said they believed that an investigation would find that someone interfered with the deployment of additional federal law-enforcement officials on the perimeter of the Capitol complex; the official has direct knowledge of the proper procedures for security of the facility.

"I cannot believe the failure to establish a proper cordon was a mistake. These are very skilled police officials, but they are federal, and that means they ultimately report to the president. This needs to be investigated."
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Conspiracy theories are fun, aren't they?

You know, I’ve been thinking: there’sa hole in the StroudCrowd crowd’s insistence that it was a left wing plot. That hole is Donald Trump, his kids, and Rudy Giuliani inciting the riot. If anyone, it would have been Trump loyalists that arranged it... and the handling of the situation by the National Guard really opens up questions.

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