Yes,there were rioters. There were also “tourists.” In a real insurrection there would have been more insurrectionists than tourists and they would have been armed to the teeth with firearms.
THE JAN 6TH RIOT WAS NOT AN INSURRECTION.
The rioters who did damage on Jan 6th should be prosecuted. The tourists not so much, especially those who were invited in by the Capitol Police.
Those who burned buildings and looted and pillaged in the summer BLM and Antifa riots should also be prosecuted. So should those who rioted at the White House.
I am all for peaceful demonstrations but not riots.
MORE than 50 Secret Service agents have been injured during ugly clashes outside the White House on a sixth night of violence sparked by the death of George Floyd. The attacks came after President …
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'The summer 2020 riots resulted in some 15 times more injured police officers, 30 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 1,300 times more costly than those of the Capitol riot,' RealClearInvestigations noted in their analysis.
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You do know that a self coup, an auto coup de'tat attempt by an elected leader, who decides to illegally stay in power after losing.....does not need to be violent and usually isn't a take over via violence....
Most rioters thought they were following president Trump's orders by breaking in the U.S. Capitol building, to stop the electoral college vote from being officially counted and entered in to the congressional record. Trump never told them to STOP and GO HOME until 3 Hours later....
You're a smart man, all the evidence and a string of different actions by trump and his crooked lawyers like Giuliani and Powell and Eastman, and Clarke in the Doj, were working different angles to illegally keep trump in power after he LOST....are at your fingertips to inform you of what truth looks like and is, in this situation..... Repeating mind numbing MAGA stolen election LIES to justify Trump and followers breaking in to the Capitol and stopping the electoral count in the records, doesn't make it any less illegal or any less of a Soft Coup attempt of soon to be Ex President.
The Congress critters, the trump lawyers, the state republican legislatures, VP Pence, the rally organizers, the Proud Boys, the oath keepers, the 3 percenters, Steve Bannon crowd, Jeffrey Clarke in doj, the fake electors scheme, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc....
were all intertwined in the chaos for one single goal,
To keep president Trump illegally in power AFTER he LOST the election and was voted out by we the people.
This information is so so so easy to find and see with your own eyes....but it seems most Trumpers have been programmed to not, under any circumstance, review the evidence that was gathered by 1/6 investigators or reported on of Trump and company, coup attempt....
Siding with, or just silence on the self coup attempt of Trump's, is so wrong, so hurtful to our Nation, so damaging to our country, our democratic republic, that it borders being traitorous, at this point imo!!!!