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Twitter cited dangerous talk and online planning in banning Trump’s account
The planning for Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol happened largely in plain view, with chatters in far-right forums explicitly discussing how to storm the building, handcuff lawmakers with zip ties and disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s election — in what they portrayed as responding to orders from President Trump.
This went far beyond the widely reported, angry talk about thronging Washington that day. Trump supporters exchanged detailed tactical advice about what to bring and what to do once they assembled at the Capitol to conduct “citizen’s arrests” of members of Congress. One poster said, “[expletive] zip ties. I’m bringing rope!”
Such comments were not confined to dark corners of the Web. They were scooped up and catalogued by researchers who made their findings public weeks before a seemingly unprepared Capitol Police force was overrun by thousands of rioters, in an incident that left one officer, one rioter and three other people dead.
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The Capitol Police, the MD NG, the D.C. Police - what role did Trump play in Washington being virtually unprepared for a riot on that scale? Luckily it devolved into a disorganized rabble. Luckily for all of us is the fact that only 5 died & that they did not fulfill their stated objective of holding congressmen hostage.