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brooklynite

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34. Who are you claiming left it undefended?

Wed Feb 24, 2021, 09:51 PM

Feb 2021

It’s a serious charge, and you should be able to identify someone and show proof.

(No - The Capitol is not the responsibility of the executive Dept, and the Capitol Police were, at the time, jointly under the control of Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader McConnell.)

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The Capitol Building Was Left Un-Defended On Purpose - Who Will Be The First To Say It? [View all] DanieRains Feb 2021 OP

Rec 1,000,000! choie Feb 2021 #1

Well, we can't know who was the first to make this accusation on January 6, Hortensis Feb 2021 #48

I want the testimony of the national guard guy who said bad optics Walleye Feb 2021 #2

And when the trail leads back to Trump, he should be charge$ criminally Kyblue1 Feb 2021 #3

Absolutely Rebl2 Feb 2021 #12

That appears to have been either michael flynn's brother or trump toady chris miller. niyad Feb 2021 #23

Yeah, I'd guess high-level underlings who wanted to make sure calimary Feb 2021 #39

Yep. No doubt about it. Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #4

They made shirts saying CIVIL WAR January 6. Grasswire2 Feb 2021 #5

There have been vague comments about civil war in the hinterlands for months. pazzyanne Feb 2021 #15

Insurrectionist themed Tee-shirts is a cottage industry among their camp follower groupies. jaxexpat Feb 2021 #44

RePutin gas lighting is infuriating poli-junkie Feb 2021 #6

THIS malaise Feb 2021 #7

Of course it was, Butterflylady Feb 2021 #8

Remember those days and weeks wnylib Feb 2021 #55

Time Line PaulnFortWorth Feb 2021 #57

GQP probably told the people who resigned not to admit culpability lindysalsagal Feb 2021 #9

Oh, it was worse than undefended. It was partially defended. So Oldem Feb 2021 #10

But planned by who? Because it certainly made trump look terrible. oldsoftie Feb 2021 #11

trump's not exactly a "think ahead" sort flibbitygiblets Feb 2021 #30

Republican's were willing to overthrow yuiyoshida Feb 2021 #13

The serious portent of this is overlooked Alpeduez21 Feb 2021 #18

The worse thing about is that they yuiyoshida Feb 2021 #35

If Trump (and his minions) don't go to prison, we may not survive as a nation. lagomorph777 Feb 2021 #38

Only tRump would have any interest in leaving it unguarded Blue Owl Feb 2021 #14

Yes PatSeg Feb 2021 #42

The "unspoken truth"...it will come out ashredux Feb 2021 #16

You just did. Corgigal Feb 2021 #17

K&R smirkymonkey Feb 2021 #19

I did that day! LittleGirl Feb 2021 #20

Many of us have been saying it from the 6th IronLionZion Feb 2021 #21

Amen. Joinfortmill Feb 2021 #22

It's so obvious that I wonder at the inability of the press to say it. dchill Feb 2021 #24

And you know, they don't even have to say it definitively PatSeg Feb 2021 #46

Agree. Stand down in code. K&R x 1000! Evolve Dammit Feb 2021 #25

absolutely........ Takket Feb 2021 #26

Oh, Hell Yes ybbor Feb 2021 #27

The GQP is trying to do an apples/oranges thing BigmanPigman Feb 2021 #28

when are we going to say trump did it? AllaN01Bear Feb 2021 #29

You nailed it. It's a miracle there weren't more Congressional deaths. (nt) Paladin Feb 2021 #31

That is for sure PatSeg Feb 2021 #47

I have bern saying this since 1/7/21 apnu Feb 2021 #32

This message was self-deleted by its author moondust Feb 2021 #33

Who are you claiming left it undefended? brooklynite Feb 2021 #34

So it was Pelosi?? Yeah right. triron Feb 2021 #41

The OP claims a purposeful choice was made... brooklynite Feb 2021 #50

Now you have names. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2021 #52

tRump, Miller, Sund, Lewandowski, .... "allowed no helmets, no body armor, no weapons, no arrests" Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2021 #51

Exactly. Mike Niendorff Feb 2021 #36

It's been obvious since January 6th. I don't know why it's so hard for our leaders to just say it. lagomorph777 Feb 2021 #37

And ordered so by Trump. But the media to say this? Sigh. triron Feb 2021 #40

Mainstream media was tweeting about VIOLENT THREATS at least the day before Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2021 #43

EXACTLY seta1950 Feb 2021 #45

Not only a special commission is needed -- BarbD Feb 2021 #49

I've been preaching that sentiment since day one. The first videos and the subsequent Ferrets are Cool Feb 2021 #53

The only other choice is massive incompetence on the part of MANY officials. BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #54

Exactly! I'm not sure why it's still so hard for some people ecstatic Feb 2021 #56