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Hortensis

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3. Personally, I like this testimony from a White House security official
Thu Oct 13, 2022, 04:37 PM
Oct 2022

about how they responded when they learned tRump intended to lead the mob to the Capitol:

"To be completely honest, we were all in a state of shock."

"Because why?"

"Because it just -- One, I think the actual physical feasibility of doing it.

And then also, we all knew what that implicated and what that meant. That this was no longer a rally, that this was going to move to something else if he physically walked to the Capitol.

I don't know if you want to use the word insurrection, coup, whatever. We all knew that this would move from a normal, democratic, you know, public event into something else.

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