You know how little kids touch everything in sight?

[LuckyCharms]

I just watched the video from The New Yorker again where those idiots were rummaging through the Senate.

Shuffling through papers, opening and closing desks, touching shit that did not belong to them...with no gloves on.

So let's see:

Bringing your own phone while performing felonious acts,

Recording themselves performing felonious acts,

Leaving fingerprints all over the Senate.

Mensa members. Criminal masterminds.

[flor-de-jasmim]

1. hoped someone dusted for prints before the next COVID cleaning

[lagomorph777]

2. No doubt!

[magicarpet]

3. They are the only patriots acting in the best interests of AmeriKKKa.

Everyone else is a liberal commie.

Don't ya know ?

[spooky3]

4. You forgot: leaving your DNA when you smeared feces in the walls

and floors.

[SlogginThroughIt]

5. They didn't worry about being caught.

Because they thought they were justified. They had a 1776 fantasy going on in their head.

[Pantagruel]

6. Fingerprints?

The morans are on 100's of videotapes not to mention the incriminating selfies and video they are bragging about on social media. They're identifying and convicting themselves.

[LuckyCharms]

7. For the many who may be unclear on video, or for the ones who are not bragging,

or for those where the video may have caught just the back of their head, or for those who wore face coverings...

Fingerprints may help identify individuals who were not otherwise captured on video, assuming that their prints are on record with authorities.

Anyway, the point of my OP was not to say that their fingerprints will do them in, but rather, leaving prints is just another novice mistake when performing a criminal act.

This means:

1) They do not care if they get caught, or

2) They are so dead stupid, they didn't know they were committing federal crimes.