New details on Capitol's day of terror are devastating indictment of Trump

[DonViejo]

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN

Updated 7:09 AM ET, Thu February 11, 2021

(CNN)Impeachment prosecutors took senators on a wrenching journey inside the horror of the US Capitol insurrection, making a devastating case that Donald Trump had plotted, incited and celebrated a vile crime against the United States.

Their previously unseen video evidence showed a bloodthirsty mob defiling Congress, heroism from overpowered police officers pleading for backup, high-profile lawmakers running for their lives and staffers hiding behind locked doors.

Surveillance footage depicted then-Vice President Mike Pence being hustled away with rioters calling for him to be hanged only yards away. A police officer screamed in pain, trapped between a door and an invading crowd. In a horrific scene, Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt tried to climb through a window smashed by rioters before falling back, shot dead by a Capitol Police officer.

"When his mob overran and occupied the Senate and attacked the House and assaulted law enforcement, (Trump) watched it on TV like a reality show," lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin said Wednesday. "He reveled in it. And he did nothing to help us as commander in chief. Instead, he served as the inciter in chief, sending tweets that only further incited the rampaging mob."

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[N_E_1 for Tennis]

1. The dots connected, the lines drawn...

Timelines established. No sane person could refute the evidence some of the most damning coming from the perpetrators themselves.

YET....

[blm]

2. ✔️

[mopinko]

3. those shots of senators running for safety

how do you look at that, and not convict?

[Irish_Dem]

4. When power and money are more important than human life.

[mopinko]

5. i'd expect them to shrug it off if it was other ppl.

but it was THEM.
how do they not convict when they were the targets of this attack?

[Irish_Dem]

6. Because Dems were the ones targeted mostly.

The GOP, with the exception of Pence, thought they would be safe?

But to your point, it does show you that they love money and power more than they love their own lives.
Truly a pathological addiction.

[mopinko]

7. romney was a dead man.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Him too, but they don't like Romney. So they were OK with him being killed.

I cannot believe what I type, but it is true.

[mopinko]

9. it is hard to believe.

except that it's easy to believe.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Right, shocking but not surprising.

[Aussie105]

11. Ashli Babbitt tried to climb through a window

and was shot dead.

If the others had continued to enter that room, how many would have been killed?

No idea who was in that room, and why it needed defending with lethal force, but from the brief video I've seen, there were several guns drawn.

That brief scene has had little airplay, and no description of what actually went on at the time.
Who was in the room?

[DFW]

12. Only if you're a Democrat

If you're a Republican, this is all a bunch of "so what?"

If they were sympathizers or even inciters of the "rampaging mob," they saw no danger, only allies.