So, it is mostly true. That's better than SNOPES.
It's not even mostly true
There were multiple security failures on multiple levels - much of which has to do with the fact that no one though the mob was really that dangerous and no one wanted the "optics" of a militarized looking capital.
JOE BIDEN took care of that real quick.
Biden had little to nothing to do with it. It's Congress' purview and frankly - can you blame them after what happened?
Many rioters came prepared for violence. They came with baseball bats, solid metal "flag poles", zip ties, bear spray (you don't find that hanging around the capital), pepper spray and stun guns.
That is mostly true. So I point oput again, the riot was planned, and secret service doesn't let people bring bats and poles and bear spray and other things into close proximity withna prtesident, sdo none of that shit was at the Eclipse Rally. Whatever showed up at the Capitol was premeditated and brought there with the intent of doing battle with security, NOT because of anything Trump said at the rally, UNLIKE EVERYTHING CLAIMED BY BOTH THE LEFT-WING MEDIA AND THE IMPEACHMENT OFFICERS DURING THAT 2ND STUPID FARCE TRIAL.
Not quite. It's illegal to bring guns. In their communications they were told not to bring guns but bring a variety of other things that can be used as weapons. In a crowd of thousands they don't search everyone for pepper spray, baseball bats etc. That stuff would have been with them at the rally because there is enough distance between the people and the president for safety. Despite that though...there were a considerable number of guns around as well as Molotov cocktails and two bombs set at the GoP and Dem headquarters. I do agree that among many, there was planning for violence. IMO those are the ones that should face serious charges of terrorism.
I disagree with you on Trump's role - the mob was fed and fertilized for MONTHS on Trump's constant refrain of a "stolen election" that came up in every speech and tweet and utterance to his base.
They were groomed.
The mob was a mix of people - those who came for the protest and got caught up in the moment, those who came as individuals looking to cause mayhem, those who came as part of organized groups.
Most of them were simple family people with their wives and children looking to hear Trump and to show simple harmless support at the Capitol.
And those were the ones that STOPPED SHORT of entering the capital. I listened to inverviews during that day, and there were a number of people who clearly were uncomfortable with the direction things were going and either left to go home or stayed outside the capital. That's the line between protestors and rioters, who broke in, vandalized, stole and assaulted. Ashli Babbit was part of the latter, not the former.
The police did not have the time or the luxury to assume that because Babbit was a "little woman" she posed "no danger". For all they knew she could have had a gun on her they didn't see
Pure speculation. A few people trapped behind locked doors with no weapons couldn't be stopped with pepper spray or some other agent?
I'm sorry. The real victim here was America's pride. First, a few irate people essentially wearing street clothes unarmed not even covering their faces nearly took out the entire Congress? At one of its highest moments certifying a new president? And were labeled "insurrectionists looking to overturn democracy" after a stolen election?
A FEW people? This was a MOB who overwhelmed the police presence, beat the shit out of the police (including some serious injuries) and were converging on congressional members still in the chamber. Do you really think a volatile ANGRY mob can be stopped that easily? Mob violence is insanity. People act in ways they never would otherwise.
They were there to overturn the election plain and simple. That is an insurrection.
America looks like an idiot. Little Richard could have knocked over the Capitol that day wearing a dress. Our enemies are laughing. And that is the REAL STORY: Biden put those 25,000 around Washington after that claiming fear of reprisal from Trump supporters. THE TRUTH is they realized ANYONE could come in there and kick their ass and they feared one of our real enemies would try next!
America looks like an idiot but not for that reason.
We always had respect for our institutions, like the Capital, as hallowed ground. Until January 6th, when a Trump inspired mob descended on it, our capital, and in an act of desecration.
We never before needed a fence.
What have we done now?
We can't EVEN unify enough to condemn this!