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What would have happened if Trump had reached the capital on the 6th?

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It is a question I keep asking myself and others, what would have happened if Trump had reached the capital with his followers on the 6th? It is something to think about.
 
Trump had no intention of reaching the Capitol. He just wanted to rile people up to do his dirty work while he scurried home to hide. Keeps his hands clean in his mind while still hoping to achieve the same goal.
 
Obviously Trump wanted to lead the Proud Boys up the steps of the capital.

He also wanted them armed. He wanted the metal detectors removed from the capital.

Now those videos would have made great news on MSM. The 1/6 commission would have had a field day with that
 
Trump had no intention of reaching the Capitol. He just wanted to rile people up to do his dirty work while he scurried home to hide. Keeps his hands clean in his mind while still hoping to achieve the same goal.
Apparently you have not been watching the hearings. It was Trump's intent to go to the capital, but the Secret Service would not allow it. Please watch something other than Fox News
 
It is a question I keep asking myself and others, what would have happened if Trump had reached the capital with his followers on the 6th? It is something to think about.

It is interesting, but it's hard to imagine a scenario that doesn't get shut down immediately.

SS can't create a secure perimeter in the open amongst a crowd of armed jackasses, certainly not without pre-planning.

The Capitol police aren't going to just part like the Red Sea just because Trump says so. They don't answer to him directly.

Trump is not going to get physically involved at any level.

So what's that leave? Hollerin' into a microphone at a distance? That we've seen.
 
I'm thinking it would have been messier, but the eventual result would have been the same.

I hope that our democracy is strong enough to hold off one asshole and his brainwashed minions.

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Trump had no intention of reaching the Capitol. He just wanted to rile people up to do his dirty work while he scurried home to hide. Keeps his hands clean in his mind while still hoping to achieve the same goal.

You obviously did not watch a single minute of the hearing that featured Cassidy Hutchinson's sworn testimony. She spent the entire time talking about how badly Trump the Terrorist wanted to go there.
 
It is a question I keep asking myself and others, what would have happened if Trump had reached the capital with his followers on the 6th? It is something to think about.

Not much point in speculating but hopefully, eventually he'd have been indicted and it would have been a lot easier to convict him of insurrection.
 
The joke of the idea of an insurrection, is that our process of the transition of power would have happened anyway.
Jan 6 was a bunch of people who were angry their guy lost, there was no chance of that group changing the outcome of the election.
 
Trumps tweets on Jan 6


Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021

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I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Orderrespect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
 
The joke of the idea of an insurrection, is that our process of the transition of power would have happened anyway.
Jan 6 was a bunch of people who were angry their guy lost, there was no chance of that group changing the outcome of the election.

Then why was their leader, The Donald, encouraging them to go to the Capitol and object, make their opinions known, encourage Pence to do something he knew was illegal and unconstitutional?
 
Trumps tweets on Jan 6


Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021

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I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Orderrespect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021

What time were those tweets made?
 
This is what inciting violence looks like.

 
Trumps tweets on Jan 6


Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021

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I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Orderrespect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
 
Then why was their leader, The Donald, encouraging them to go to the Capitol and object, make their opinions known, encourage Pence to do something he knew was illegal and unconstitutional?
Protest is legal, rioting not so much!
 
Obviously Trump wanted to lead the Proud Boys up the steps of the capital.

He also wanted them armed. He wanted the metal detectors removed from the capital.

Now those videos would have made great news on MSM. The 1/6 commission would have had a field day with that
Yes because he knew that all it took was six armed proud boys to overthrow the US government. lol
 
The Donald asking them to go protest an illegal, unconstitutional act is insurrection.
How so?
Had they all gone and done what he asked and peacefully protested in front of the capital, what laws would have been broken?
 
It is a question I keep asking myself and others, what would have happened if Trump had reached the capital with his followers on the 6th? It is something to think about.
You would not have been able to post this...
 
You would not have been able to post this...
Don't be silly, Jan 6 was not going to change anything.
Had Trump wanted to stay in power, he would have claimed some reason to cancel the election.
 
How so?
Had they all gone and done what he asked and peacefully protested in front of the capital, what laws would have been broken?

What if Congress had capitulated? What if Pence had been influenced and attempted it?

What do you think the purpose of protest is? To influence change.
 
Yes because he knew that all it took was six armed proud boys to overthrow the US government. lol

Hundreds of Proud Boys assembled near the Capitol on the mid-morning of Jan. 6 — well before Donald Trump’s speech at the ellipse — and appeared to perform reconnaissance for the attack on the Capitol that they would spearhead later that afternoon.

That was the testimony of British documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, live before the Jan. 6 Committee on Thursday night. Quested was embedded with Proud Boys on that day, and his raw footage of violence during the insurrection was featured at length by the committee.

In his testimony, Quested recalled how hundreds of Proud Boys had ditched the Ellipse and made straight for the Capitol complex at about 10:30 on Jan. 6. They watched as the cops set up bike-rack style barricades, and donned riot gear on the west side perimeter of the Capitol, before circling to the other side of the halls of Congress to see the East side. The Proud Boys finished their recon mission so early that they had time to go out for tacos.

Oath Keepers
In advance of Jan. 6, Rhodes and his loyalists allegedly plotted to travel to the Washington, D.C., area, heavily armed, including with thousands of dollars of weapons that Rhodes purchased on the drive east from Texas.

The militia allegedly kept a large cache of weapons across the river in Northern Virginia, with a “Quick Reaction Force” that Rhodes expected to be able to mobilize when, he hoped, Trump invoked the Insurrection Act and called up militias like the Oath Keepers into what Rhodes forecast would be a “bloody” battle against the president’s enemies.

While Rhodes stayed outside the building, other top Oath Keepers entered the Capitol in military “stack” formation, allegedly determined to disrupt the counting of the votes of the Electoral College. When Rhodes learned that members of Congress were endangered inside, he allegedly replied, “**** ‘em!”
 
Trump had no intention of reaching the Capitol. He just wanted to rile people up to do his dirty work while he scurried home to hide. Keeps his hands clean in his mind while still hoping to achieve the same goal.
Recent committe hearings proved he did attend to go.
 
Don't be silly, Jan 6 was not going to change anything.
Had Trump wanted to stay in power, he would have claimed some reason to cancel the election.
And you are in denial over what kind of man Trump is. The man tried to censor a weather map....just because it made him look bad.
 
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