Why are you deflecting now?
Deflecting what? He cxlaimed Pelosi took responsibility for the NG not deploying fast enough, and used a link behind a paywall, and a quote from someone else who claimed the same.
I said I'm not paying to see his "proof" and I'm not accepting a quote of someone
else saying she is at fault as proof.
I know. And you posted about TSS and denying the report. Yet Again your assigning positions to me I've never taken. I've always held Trump culpzble.
Fair enough.
Deflecting again. Can't even concede the it was Team Blue that created a political atmosphere that prevented predeployment of the NG. You're welcome to pretend that Team Blue didn't help contribute to the conditions that lead to J6. Pure delusion.
So Team Red chose to let the events of J6 happen, even though they knew shit was likely to go South in advance of the election:
"At 1:42 a.m., on December 19th, President Trump tweeted: “Big protest
in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” 4
The President’s tweet galvanized tens of thousands of his supporters
around the country. President Trump had been lying to them since election
day, claiming he won, and that the Democrats had stolen victory from him.
Now, with a single tweet, the President focused his supporters’ anger on
the joint session of Congress in Washington, DC on January 6th.
Anika Navaroli, the longest-tenured member of Twitter’s Trust and
Safety Policy team, monitored the reaction to President Trump’s “be wild”
tweet. She told the Select Committee that the President was “essentially
staking a flag in DC . . . for his supporters to come and rally.” 5 The tweet
created a “fire hose” of calls to overthrow the U.S. Government. President
Trump’s supporters had a new sense of urgency because they felt “as if
their Commander in Chief” had summoned them.6
For many extremists and conspiracy theorists, the President’s
announcement was a call to arms.7"
“Stop the Steal” events and other protests throughout 2020 helped
build the momentum for January 6th. The Select Committee collected data
on 85 right-wing events between January 1, 2020, and January 20, 2021,
which were inspired by opposition to COVID-19 lockdown measures, racial
justice protests, and, later, the perceived theft of President Trump’s victory.
54 Far-right extremists protested at or inside State capitols, or at other
government buildings, in at least 68 instances.55 Of those, 49 occurred during
the period after the election through January 6th.56 In the year leading
up to January 6th, there were at least nine events at which far-right actors
entered State capitols.57At least four of these capitol incursions—in
Michigan,58 Idaho,59 Arizona,60 and Oregon61—involved identifiable individuals
who later participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
And team Red thought that if Trump LOST the election, things were just going to be calm? Their big concern was "optics" of having professional people in control (police, sheriff deputies, National Guard, whatever) in place would be bad "optics"?
Bad "optics" for the same people who cheer on the likes of a Kyle Rittenhouse, driving from Illinois to Wisconsin to pretend to be a cop, and killing two people?
Please.
