Originally Posted by Matter-eater Man
Donald Trump Resisted Pleas to Stop Capitol Rioters: 'People Will Die'
“ As his own supporters breached the U.S. Capitol and began ransacking the seat of American democracy on Jan. 6, then-President Donald Trump remained holed up in his dining room. There, he watched the increasingly violent scene play out on television and resisted calls from those closest to him to urge the rioters to disperse, instead stewing over his recent electoral loss.
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Liberal narrative, not to be confused with actual facts.

AGAIN: Of the 600 or so who entered the Capitol (many tricked into entering by police, who held open the doors for them) 90% were only guilty of "trespassing".
Of the 60 or so who actually broke windows, committed vandalism or violently clashed with police , "at least 20" (in the FBI's own investigation reports) are "un-indicted co-conspirators" (i.e. FBI agents DISGUISED as Trump supporters, who did violence and tried to provoke the crowd, i.e., agents provocateur.
And another 20 or so were (as proven on videotape) John Earle Sullivan and his BLM / Antifa rioters, ALSO pretending to be Trump supporters, trying to incite the mob.

So again: If at least 40 of the 60 were agents trying to frame the well-over 100,000 Trump supporters, it can't fairly be portrayed as a "Trump-incited riot", when the overwhelming majority of violent offenders were >>NOT<<< Trump supporters, but people there to frame them. And Trump repeatedly in his 71-minute speech that day, in his repeated tweets about every 30 minutes throughout the afternoon, and his final video message that day instructing everyone to "go home and leave in peace", ALL encouraged peaceful demonstration, and NONE of them advocated violence.

Add to that how Trump in the week prior to Jan 6th ordered 10,000 National Guard troops to be there that day to insure peace, and how Pelosi and other Democrat apparatchiks made that national guard order disappear, even when Capitol police and other commanding officers on Jan 6th desperately requested those national guard troops 5 or 6 times throughout the day.

Don't blame Trump, when it is clear he did everything in advance to prevent violence, and Democrats, who wanted the chaos for their own narrative, scuttled those preventive measures, and did everything to make violence happen.