Could Trump have prevented the mob from attacking the Capitol?

With a simple tweet, could he have told them to stand down and not enter?

I think most people would agree that he could have stopped the mob but he chose not to?

What does that mean?

That means that he was not only complicit, he was leading the attack by letting it continue.

There is no other explanation.

Veni, Vidi, Vici...

I Came, I Saw, I Destroyed.

How many of the mob actually went into the Capitol?

Was it several hundred?

Or several thousand?

Did most of them stay outside the building?

It appeared that the most passionate and violent insurrectionists did not hesitate to break into the nations Capitol and threaten the elected representatives of this country.

If they can arrest most of those that were inside the Capitol, they will have decapitated a large part of the Trump cult, in my opinion.

Is there any doubt that it was sedition?

Which Republican Senators would have felt safe if the mob had come into the Senate chambers?

Do they think their close alliance with Mr Trump would have protected them?

Which Senators would have been injured by the mob? Which Senators may have been killed by the mob?

They were fortunate that a Capitol Hill policemen led the mob in a different direction. Otherwise, they might be singing a different tune today?

Those closest to Trump, starting with Guiliani and Don Jr, should be arrested for inciting ...

...an insurrection.

Rudy Guiliani, Trump's personal attorney, was at the rally that preceded the attack upon our nation's Capitol. His words were incendiary. He called for a "trial by combat"? What did he mean by that? Of course Rudy would have an explanation for that. He has an explanation for everything. That is why he is Donald Trump's personal attorney.

Merrick Garland could get off on the right foot if he arrested Mr Guiliani as one of his first acts as the new Attorney General. Both he and Don Jr should be charged with sedition against the government of the United States.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rudy-giuliani-capitol-riot-new-york-bar-b1785512.html

A message to the Republicans on Capitol Hill: "You can't handle the truth!"

You are weak, deluded, seditious, malleable, individuals.

You not only lie to the American people, you lie to yourselves.

If there was truly justice in this country, most of you would be sitting in prison.

You have betrayed your country.

The people do not support you. More than 2 out of 3 think you are nuts.

You are so far up the river of denial that you may not be able to return.

You should be ashamed and sorry for your acts but you don't have enough self-awareness to know your own self.

Why doesn't Trump address the nation?

Is he too chickenshit to come before the press and take questions? Don't answer that.

But, the press should be pressuring him to inform the people about what happened. I guess he must think it's not that important?

Nobody wants to talk about it?

Circle the wagons and protect Donald Trump? Is that the game they want to play?

Republicans - Still Lyin' and Still Denyin'

If they just pretend nothing happened, then maybe the people will believe them.

Those people that violently attacked the Capitol were not "patriots". They were criminals.

They had no respect for our Capitol, no respect for the law, and no respect for the American flag.

They were beating cops with their flags and throwing them like spears.

All the while screaming USA! USA! USA!

This is one of the lies that needs to be cleared up. They are not "patriots".

The Good Americans

This is from an old editorial in the Star Tribune
https://www.startribune.com/good-germans-good-americans-where-are-we-headed/486320971/


If we want to avoid becoming known as “Good Americans,” we need to recognize and resist. Recognize that there is such a thing as truth and that democracy’s foundation is premised on the existence of certain, immutable truths. Recognize that any leader who is incapable of distinguishing truth from prevarication is a significant threat to our democracy. We also need to recognize, resist and defeat at the ballot box any candidate who lacks the courage to confront those who would deliberately promulgate false facts.

By failing to confront the liars we enable them. Enabling leaders who are chronic liars encourages the liars to continue to lie. False statements that are continuously repeated take on an appearance of truth. That is what chronic liars are attempting to achieve. Repeated misstatements and untruths tear at the fabric of our democracy and are normalized by civic and political leaders who look the other way instead of having the courage to confront those in power who threaten our democracy.

If we don’t want to become known as “Good Americans,” it is essential that we resist every effort by those who would aggrandize themselves at the expense of the values that made America Great.