“…All of us here today do not want to see our
election victory stolen by emboldened radical left Democrats, which is what
they’re doing and stolen by the fake news media. That’s what they’ve done and
what they’re doing. We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn’t
happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved…
“We’re going to have to fight much harder and Mike Pence
is going to have to come through for us. If he doesn’t, that will be a sad day
for our country because you’re sworn to uphold our constitution.
“Now it is up to Congress to confront this
egregious assault on our democracy. After this, we’re going to walk down and
I’ll be there with you. We’re going to walk down. We’re going to walk down any
one you want, but I think right here. We’re going walk down to the Capitol, and
we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women. We’re
probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never
take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to
be strong…”
“It’s a very tough period of time. There’s never been a time like this where such a thing happened where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country. This was a fraudulent election. But we can’t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home and go home in peace.”
Trump on Twitter before they locked him out:
“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”
"...While members of Congress took cover beneath their seats, and his supporters roamed though leadership offices, Trump did nothing — but watch the mayhem that he had triggered unfold on TV.
ReplyDelete"One source told CNN's Kaitlin Collins that Trump was more preoccupied with what he sees as Pence's political apostasy after the vice president announced he would not seek to disrupt the certification of Biden's victory — a step he had no power to take in any case. Eventually, Trump issued a video telling protesters to go home but exacerbated the situation by making more disgraceful and false allegations about a stolen election.
"The President's silence when real violence was raging contrasted with his incessant and false pre-election claims that leftist mobs were running rampant through US cities and his calls for the restoration of 'Law and Order.'
"And the apparently meager US Capitol Police forces that were overwhelmed in Congress contrasted sharply with the heavily armed phalanxes of security forces Trump poured onto streets filled by Black Lives Matters protests over the summer. On that notorious occasion, the Justice Department sent federal troops into Lafayette Square with tear gas to clear protesters ahead of an absurd presidential photo-op [so he could hold up a Bible].
"It was left to Biden, who will take office in a country brought to its knees by Trump's divisiveness and a pandemic that is now claiming more than 3,000 American lives per day, to offer the steady hand of leadership. 'This is not dissent. It is disorder. It is chaos. It borders on sedition,' Biden said in a speech in Delaware" (CNN).
The day will indeed be remembered in history, but not as tRump wishes it to be. And that contrast between the police presence for BLM protests and yesterday is appalling. It must be addressed.
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