"He Wanted To Help" - The Lincoln Project

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1. "We don't have the assets.....we're not going to go to the capitol", said the SS.

Not that "there are insurrectionists at the capitol", not "those people are breaking the law and you can't help them", certainly not "we're not going to aid these people by chauffeuring you to them".

The Secret Service didn't have the ASSETS to contend with that situation.

My question? My point? If the SS had the assets, what exactly would they have done at the Capitol? Part the crowd for his entrance? Shove Capitol police out of his way? Would they have assisted his entrance to a building where he is not allowed without an invitation from congress? And congress, at that moment, was too busy to be inviting him over.

It seems to me that when Kevin Costner quit the service, the whole thing went to hell.