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In reply to the discussion: Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs having dinner at the Trump hotel with Lindsey Graham [View all]BGBD
(3,282 posts)54. I was going to post this as well
I remember seeing these pictures before and you can tell from no masks on the waiters that it was from before the pandemic.
Also we are focusing way too much on Proud Boys. They were there and I'm sure plenty of them got right in there in the mayhem, but if it were only them and their allies they wouldn't have gotten past the fences. The person who organized this and made it possible was Donald Trump. He talked about the date for weeks, he set up the rally, he used him loyalists to make sure the Capitol was weakly guarded. He's the one that brought the thousands of people in there and whipped them into a frenzy.
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Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs having dinner at the Trump hotel with Lindsey Graham [View all]
tblue37
Jan 2021
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The same Lindsey who whined to the Capitol police that they were not protecting him enough from the
keithbvadu2
Jan 2021
#5
To be completely fair, it could be that Biggs just stopped by Linsey's table and asked for a picture
tblue37
Jan 2021
#14
Hey! - Dudes just have to have their time, like Rafael Carnival CRUZ with donors!
UTUSN
Jan 2021
#16
Disagree. Elected officials should not be pictured smiling with violent white supremacists.
58Sunliner
Jan 2021
#99
Well, Lindsey was screaming at guards during the sedition about a lack of concern for ...
marble falls
Jan 2021
#42
There is no excuse for the Republican enablers but this isn't from immediately before the
ToxMarz
Jan 2021
#44
I have a feeling there will be a lot more of these kind of pictures with Members of Congress exist
Pachamama
Jan 2021
#71