(01-14-2021, 09:32 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(01-14-2021, 09:28 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: So, Trump announces a big "Stop the Steal" rally for January 6, and invites his supporters to attend.  As a result, thousands of "Proud Boys," Q-anon adherents, conspiracy theorists, white nationalists, neo-confederates, militia members, and various other far-right idiots show up in Washington DC, inflamed by right wing talk radio and ready to do whatever is necessary to "stop the steal."

At the rally, Trump tells the crowd that Mike Pence has the power to overturn the election "if he has the courage" (paraphrasing).   And of course he tells them the same pack of lies he's been telling them for a couple of months about how the election was stolen, it was the biggest fraud in history, and they have to fight to save the country, and how they won't win with weakness, etc.  Rudy Giuliani says we need "trial by combat."  

Then Trump directs them to march on the Capitol.  

And then, as if things weren't explosive enough, the crowd finds out Mike Pence has "betrayed" them and will not overturn the election.  So the crowd, which was angry, and now is REALLY angry, goes right through the police barricades and into the Capitol, forcing the House and the Senate to flee for their lives.  The world witnesses the United States Capitol building taken over by a bunch of thugs waving Trump banners, vandalizing the place, and forcing the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives to flee for their lives.  What an image to send out to the world.  

No wonder the House and Senate are hopping mad, and angry enough to re-impeach the guy.  Trump set up the rally, invited the participants to the site, harangued the crowd, lied to them about how Pence could overturn the election, and directed them to march on the Capitol.  

And then he sat in the White House and watched it all for several hours without doing or saying anything.  

Then he says he bears no responsibility for what happened!

Is this a diary entry?