It's all an illusion.  I watched the events unfold live and monitored both FOX News and CNN just to see the narrative.  The biggest concern was the crowd and in both feeds they showed a bunch of people being patriotic, nothing more.  The videos of the guy wearing the stupid costume show him being escorted in by a Capitol police officer.  I saw no violence or destruction.

The few video clips that show violence don't fit what was "the norm" that day.

We still don't know exactly why an un-armed woman was shot almost point-blank by a Capitol police officer and the justification for the shooting.

However, a certain segment of the public just laps up the narrative that it was a "violent protest" and an "insurrection".

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