How many people bring ladders to peaceful protest, one President Trump assured would be WILD?
President Trump knew exactly what he was doing. I'm sure he enjoyed the mayhem he caused. I would guess Sir Elton John was dismayed.
The Trump riot at the U.S. Capital disturbed former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah.
“Condemn this now, @realDonaldTrump,” she tweeted at her former boss. “You are the only one they will listen to. For our country!” Her tone was increasingly pleading.
A former Capital Police officer said the most basic precautions,outer perimeter, use of horses, massive police presence on the steps of the Capital, were not taken He said it looked like security was designed to fail.
Citizens and the media seemed more aware of the threat of Trump inspired violence than the National Security Agency. Had the administration ordered the NSA to stand down on violent right wing extremists?
During Black Live Matter protests security officials monitored cell phone activity in real time for threats. Trump love got his people a free pass from security officials. That led to their Capital invasion, a forever remembrance according to Trump.
Update 1-9-21: Laura Branigan's estate objected to Trump's use of her song "Gloria" during his last ditch "save his presidency" via violence event.
Twitter banned Trump permanently. Social media algorithms put many nutjobs together, then helped them stay in inflammatory touch.
Update 1-10-21: The Trump White House refused for days to lower the flag in respect for Capital Police Officer Brian Sicknick, the policeman killed by Trump's followers on 1-6-21. It finally lowered the flag this afternoon as a motorcade honoring Sicknick drove through Washington. D.C.
Update 1-18-21: Nearly a month after the presidential election, former attorney general Bill Barr told Donald Trump that his repeated claims of a stolen election were “bullshit,” according to a new report in Axios.
White House counsel Pat Cipollone and a few other aides were there to witness the back-and-forth, in which Barr told the president that the legal team he had brought on to validate his baseless claims was “clownish.”
Update 2-1-21: Trump lawyers prepared the Texas lawsuit attempting to overturn Biden's win at the Supreme Court.. An answer to my question asked earlier in this post:
Former President Donald Trump's baseless warnings about antifa and far-left extremist threats caused federal authorities to divert their attention from credible right-wing threats.
Trump's aides attempted to suppress the use of the phrase "domestic terrorism" and White House and Justice Department officials stopped efforts to talk about right-wing threats publicly
Update 2-4-21: Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman funded more than one Republican working to overthrow the election on Trump's behalf.
Update 2-6-21: Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that Trump bears at least a moderate amount of responsibility for the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including half who say he bears a great deal or quite a bit.
Update 2-7-21: Many Capital Hill arrestees "were middle-class and middle-aged – with an average age of 40. Almost 90% of them had no known links with militant groups. Some 40% were business owners or with white-collar jobs, and they came from relatively lucrative backgrounds as “CEOs, shop owners, doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants”.
Update 3-4-21: As a horrified nation watched the Capital insurrection President Donald Trump cheered, while his Pentagon appointees sat on their hands for over 3 hours.
Pentagon officials did not answer a request to deploy troops during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 for more than three hours, the commanding general of the D.C. National Guard testified Wednesday.
“Immediately after the 1:49 p.m. call with Chief Sund, I alerted the Army Senior Leadership of the request,” Walker said. “The approval for Chief Sund’s request would eventually come from the Acting Secretary of Defense and be relayed to me by Army Senior Leaders at 5:08 p.m. — three hours and 19 minutes later.”
Donald Trump's will was done.
Update 3-8-21: A Proud Boy communicated with someone inside the Trump White House hours before the wilding.
Update 3-20-21: Former President George W. Bush said that the Capitol riot left him sick to his stomach, and he branded the followers of President Donald Trump who stormed the building "hostile forces."
Update 3-30-21: The mother of Capital Hill Policeman Michael Fanone said this of Trump's enablers. “For me to say anything to Trump would be — it wouldn’t matter because he just can’t hear. It’s all the other people that are so complicit in this. That’s who I would speak to,” Fanone said. “How dare you? How dare you? How dare you take advantage of these people who were defending and fighting for their lives that day, to save these people, preserve democracy, civility, to restore the Capitol to what it’s supposed to be? Where are you? With all of these officers stood with you, why don’t you stand with them?”
Update 4-2-21: Two U.S. Capitol Police officers have filed a federal lawsuit against former President Donald Trump that blames him for physical and emotional injuries they sustained during the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The lawsuit lays the blame on Trump by outlining the then-president’s efforts to deny and overturn Joe Biden’s election victory. Trump repeatedly told his supporters on Twitter and elsewhere that ballots had been tossed out and fraudulently cast for his opponent, though there was no evidence of widespread election fraud.
Update 5-16-21: Red team members of Congress unleashed a campaign diminishing the horrific violence of January 6th. A newly elected Georgia congressman compared it to a standard tour. A Capital police officer called the campaign "a slap in the face." It comes from more middle aged white men.
Update 6-1-21: Texas elected officials from the Red Team attended a conference put on by a prominent QANON follower. General Michael Flynn spoke and supported a Myanmar style military coup to reinstate Trump. Trump, aka "Biff", wants his Presidency back and is telling friends he'll be reinstated as U.S. President by August.
Insurrection is corporate, according to Mother Jones:
(The conference founder) "revealed that he was talking to Flynn about turning these events into “a collaboration.” He added, “This is a business now. The Patriot Voice is a corporation.”
Update 10-6-21: Trump strategist Steve Bannon called for 20,000 shock troops to storm the federal government should the Red Team take back the White House in 2024. How many of the 20.000 shock troops will be middle aged white men prone to violence?
Pathological former President Trump called January 6th a legitimate protest against a rigged election. It was that way only in his mind. Me thinks he wants another wilding.
Update 10-26-21: Did then President Trump help plan his middle aged wilding? Former President Donald Trump reportedly called into a “war room” at the Willard hotel in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.
Update 11-1-21: Trump's January 6th insurrection might repeat as "almost one-third of Republicans say they think violence may be necessary to solve the problems facing the United States."
Update 11-12-21: Threatening to hang V.P. Mike Pence was "just common sense", according to former President Donald Trump.
Update 12-4-21: Wingnuts are so emboldened they are running for office. Legislative agendas are not needed for the Red Team, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Update 12-12-21: More than the average citizen was disturbed by Trump's wilding. Don Jr. and numerous Fox News hosts sent White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows concerning texts on Jan. 6th. All asked the President to do something about it. Trump did nothing for hours.
Update 12-16-21: Esquire reported:
They (Fox News hosts and Donald Trump Jr.) knew something fundamental: Trump was watching this unfold on TV and doing nothing to stop it. The Capitol of the United States was under attack, and the president didn't lift a finger.
Update 12-18-21: AP reported on one member of Trump's middle aged, right wingnut wilding:
A Capitol rioter who attacked police officers working to hold back the angry pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6 was sentenced Friday to more than five years behind bars, the most so far for anyone sentenced in the insurrection.
Robert Palmer, 54, of Largo, Florida, wept as he told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan that he recently watched a video of his actions that day and could not believe what he was seeing.
Update 1-2-22: Former President Trump plans to hold a press conference from Maro Lago on January 6th, the one year anniversary of his white, middle aged Capital wilding. Lord, help us all.
Update 1-3-22: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is calling the committee investigating January 6th a "partisan political weapon." The Sunday letter to his colleagues came after the public learned President Trump sat on his keister in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching the Capital attack on television, ignoring two requests from daughter Ivanka to intervene.
Update 1-6-22: It's the one year anniversary of Donald Trump's Middle Aged Wilding at the Capital. Many Red Team leaders walked back their initial assessment that Trump bore responsibility for the carnage.
Update 1-8-22: "The Shock of January 6th" program by the University of Virginia Center for Politics had a number of interesting guests, members of Red and Blue political teams. UVA Law grad and U.S. Senator John Cornyn, Red Team-Texas said he had no plans to memorialize the day, and he doesn’t think others should, either. “This thing has already become way too politicized, and that would just further exacerbate it,” he said. Trump’s false claims of voter fraud have continued to foment division, met mostly with silence from Republicans in Congress unwilling to contradict his version of events.
Update 1-9-22: Red Team strategist Karl Rove wrote "There can be no soft-pedaling what happened and no absolution for those who planned, encouraged and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy. Love of country demands nothing less. That’s true patriotism.”
Update 1-13-22: Red Team members refuse to cooperate with the Jan. 6th Committee.
Rep. Liz Cheney said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was trying to "cover up" what happened at the Capitol riot by refusing to work with the House committee investigating it.
How deep is the rabbit hole? The public has no right to know.
Update 2-10-22: The RNC wants to take out all the violence and criminal behavior displayed on January 6th. In their rush to fluff up Pormer Fresident Tonald Drump's ego the RNC failed to follow basic procedures in approving the resolution that termed January 6th as legitimate political discourse. So incompetence was used to promote arrogance. Do they actually listen to themselves?
Update 5-29-22: Drump called the insurrection "a hoax" at a Wyoming rally. Seven people died as a result of Trump's right wing middle-aged wilding.
Update 6-5-22: Watergate journalist Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein weighed in on the January 6th insurrection.
“What we have is really a seditious president of the United States trying to foment insurrection to keep his successor from taking office, staging a coup,” said Carl Bernstein.
“What the Jan. 6th committee is doing ... is establishing a timeline that will show definitively how Donald Trump, his lawyers, and those closest to him attempted to stage this coup so there would be no real election of the president of the United States, and Trump would continue to be in office,” he added.
“It is a crime to subvert the lawful function of government,” said Bob Woodward. “It is not ambiguous. It goes back 100 years ... this is exactly the sort of trickery and deceit that is a crime.”
“We have in hand all the evidence, and the Justice Department realizes this, as does the Jan. 6th committee, to show that this was an organized conspiracy to subvert democracy. Can’t say it any more directly,” he added.
Update 6-19-22: Among self-described independents, 62% think Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in Jan. 6th and 61% think he bears a "great deal" or a "good amount" of responsibility.
Update 6-20-22: “There is violence in the future, I’m going to tell you,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said on ABC’s “This Week” program. “And until we get a grip on telling people the truth, we can’t expect any differently.”
Update 9-24-22: Elton John performed a concert on The White House lawn, saying this is icing on the cake. Sir Elton John was honored "for raising the soul of our nation." Contrast this with the Trump team's use of Elton John's music to incite an insurrection.
The Trump team asked rally supporters to drop the QAnon one finger salute as it looks similar to the Nazi salute. Trump shared a Truth Social post that had the former President second only to Jesus. Investors backed out of their $139 million stake in the company that planned to merge with Trump's media enterprise.
Meta could allow Trump back on Facebook and Instagram come January 2023.
Update 1-2-23: Senior Trump aide Hope Hicks wrote after Jan. 6th:
"...We all look like domestic terrorists now.”
That they did. Many still do.
Update 1-16-23: Trump called the Capital rioters "great patriots" and their deserved prison sentences "a disgrace." Spoken like a Chief Domestic Terrorist.
Update 1-23-24: Insurrection Inc. involved millions in donations.
Update 3-19-24: Trump flip flopped on the Jan. 6th rioters. Strangely, nobody cares that a petty, vengeful, easily distracted, sexual predator has a shot at returning to our country's seat of power. The list of former Trump aides working against that very notion continues to grow.
Trump's campaign has gone full delusional with its portrayal of Jan. 6th. The televised horror of that day is seared in my mind. Trump celebrates his cult of violence and for that America suffers.
