I never said there was no one in the crowd OUTSIDE the capitol that was armed. Of course there were- just like there were at every BLM/ANTIFA attended riot over multiple years. What I have said repeatedly is that no one in the capitol building was armed, no shots were fired and they did not seem to know where they were going- which flies in the face of there being some pre orchestrated coup attempt that trump and his associates were part of.
I am sure there were plans made by some groups to attend, just like all the other BLM/ANTIFA attended riots where people were bused in. It is ridiculous to think everyone there just woke up that morning and decided "hey, why don't I go to the capitol and protest!"
To your points:
If you are going to insist that trump "sent" them bc he called for them to march to the capitol with him during his speech that day then you also have to acknowledge he called for the protest to be PEACEFULLY bc that was in the very same speech, maybe even the same sentence. No surprise you conveniently left that out. Also not mentioned by you are at least two tweets by Trump calling for NO VIOLENCE and for people to go home and to respect law enforcement within about an hour of the capitol breech.
Finally, the percentage of people who were armed (with guns) was obviously extremely small. Best estimates indicate several thousand protestors that were actually at the capitol. I looked at about ten articles and the highest number I saw was 16 gun arrests. That is less than 1% of the crowd. We know they arrested over 700 people. Again, is it your opinion that Trump and his associates, in an effort to attempt a coup and take control of the capitol sent, summoned, or pre arranged for protestors to show up but told them only one or less out of each hundred could bring a gun and please keep the total under 20? Did he also tell them not to fire under any circumstances?
Also, there were anywhere from 10K-30K trump supporters at the mall. Did all those people he summoned there just suddenly stop listening to him when he "sent" them to the capitol?
I'm not saying Trump did nothing wrong, but all you lunatics suggesting this was some pre planned, organized attack on the capitol have completely detached from reality. NONE of the actual events of that day support this notion at all. Again, not one person in the capitol was found, seen, or reported to have a gun. Not ONE shot was fired ANYWHERE at, in, or around the capitol by protestors even though your claim is many of them were armed with the intent of causing harm to the point of murdering the vp.
Based on your account of what happened that day:
The only trump supporters with guns that made it to the capitol changed their mind about using them, and none of them actually made it in the capitol. Also, everyone that actually knew the layout of the capitol and were to lead the insurrectionist to hang the vp couldn't get in or got lost on the way since the insurrectionist that made it in did not go directly to the legislative chambers and evidently had no idea of escape/emergency protocols. What are the odds of that?
This is why it's useless trying to have a conversation with you. I knew exactly why you wanted us to relay what she said in her testimony instead of WATCHING IT YOURSELF. You didn't give a shit about the facts or the seriousness of what happened that day - you simply wanted to hear what we had to say so you could craft a
new defense around it. Your ridiculous copy/pasted fairy tale, that you've posted here a hundred times, no longer applied so you needed time to regroup so you could create a new manifesto to absolve him of all responsibility.
The only relevant facts are that he knew they were armed and
didn't care! It doesn't matter how many guns were found or that it didn't work - it could have been really, really bad, particularly if they actually found the lawmakers before they were removed from the building.
Trump also stated to let them in regardless of their weapons because they weren't there to "hurt him." Well then who were they there to hurt?? What were the guns and other weapons for? Answer that question!
And I'll repeat this again since you're trying your best to ignore it. THEY DON'T KNOW how many guns there were in the crowd because they couldn't search people because they were FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES!
Michael Fanone even relayed that when he was separated from the other officers and surrounded they were yelling, "get his gun and kill him with it". He also got tased at the base of his neck! After he was beaten unconscious, his partner, Jimmy Albright, who was also injured, brought him to the hospital.
“At the hospital, doctors told me that I had suffered a heart attack, and I was later diagnosed with a concussion, traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder,” Fanone said. He continues to struggle with the “trauma and emotional anxiety” that have stayed with him since that day."
I'll leave you with his words from his first appearance before Congress:
“All I’ve ever cared about is protecting you and the public so you can do your job in service to this country and for those whom you represent,” he said, directly addressing members of Congress.
“What makes the struggle harder and more painful is to know so many of my fellow citizens, including so many of the people I put my life at risk to defend, are downplaying or outright denying what happened,” Fanone said. “I feel like I went to hell and back to protect them and the people in this room. Too many are now telling me that hell doesn't exist, or that hell wasn’t that bad.”
“The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful!”
“My law enforcement career prepared me to cope with some of the aspects of this experience. Being an officer, you know your life is at risk whenever you walk out the door, even if you don’t expect other law-abiding citizens to take up arms against you. But nothing — truly nothing — has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who continue to deny the events of that day, and in doing so, betray their oath of office.”
He's talking about you above. The fact that we still have to put up with bullshit like yours to this day is disgusting. You are not a patriot.
You are a disgrace