Well it's not fair attacking white supremacists and extremists, there are some fine people there.
I can't believe Hannity said that with a straight face.
Military Veterans Overrepresented In Those Charged In Jan. 6 Capitol Riot : NPRNearly 1 In 5 Defendants In Capitol Riot Cases Served In The Military
Military vets started plotting violent insurrection within days of Trump's election loss: Indictments - Raw Story - Celebrating 16 Years of Independent Journalism
Some military veterans began recruitment efforts within days of the election to challenge the congressional certification of Joe Biden's victory, according to prosecutors.
Indictments against a pair of Ohio militia members and a Virginia man show some of former president Donald Trump's supporters recruited, trained and transported militants to Washington, D.C, to disrupt the joint session of Congress and overturn Biden's win, reported the Washington Post.
A four-count indictment accuses three military veterans -- 38-year-old Jessica Marie Watkins and 50-year-old Donovan Ray Crowl, both of Woodstock, Ohio, and 66-year-old Thomas Caldwell, of Berryville, Virginia -- of conspiring to obstruct Congress and other counts punishable up to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors say Caldwell appears to have ties to the anti-government Oath Keepers organization, although his attorney denies he's a member, and accused him and Watkins of contacting recruits Nov. 9, two days after Biden was projected as the election winner, and holding "basic training" near Columbus, Ohio, to get them "fighting fit by inauguration."
The newly unsealed indictment also alleges Watkins took part in an encrypted "leadership only" call to coordinate the violent action, and that Caldwell arranged with someone to bring weapons and at least 40 people from North Carolina ahead of Jan. 6.
All three have denied wrongdoing in the Capitol insurrection.
I was "warned" on ThaiVisa for suggesting that such "protestors" be shot. Why is this forum more liberal?
Not so easy for the "protesters"... unlike in other countries, where many foreign delegates in high positions come to cheer them up...
Indeed. Glad to see that SOME people "get it". This was not a protest, this was insurrection. Hang them.
Woman charged in Capitol riot said she wanted to shoot Pelosi 'in the friggin' brain,' FBI says
WASHINGTON - Federal authorities arrested two women in Pennsylvania on Friday on charges related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol building after the FBI said one of the women expressed an intent to shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Dawn Bancroft and Diana Santos-Smith were identified by law enforcement after the FBI said it received a tip on Jan. 12 with a video purportedly capturing the two women as they left the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 amid a large mob of people, according to a criminal complaint.
"We broke into the Capitol. . . . We got inside, we did our part," Bancroft said in the video she sent to her children, according to the FBI. "We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin' brain, but we didn't find her."
The women - who the FBI said initially lied to authorities - face three federal charges, including knowingly entering a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and impeding in government business by engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.
Information about their initial appearances in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania was not immediately available. The women could not be reached Friday evening.
News of their arrest and alleged threats come amid heightened security for U.S. lawmakers. Capitol Police asked members of Congress to report travel plans, while the agency beefed up protection for traveling lawmakers in major airports in the region, as well as Washington's Union Station, The Post reported Friday. Pelosi said on Thursday that part of the threat is an "enemy" within the chamber, referencing colleagues who "want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of Congress."
MORE Woman charged in Capitol riot said she wanted to shoot Pelosi 'in the friggin' brain,' FBI says
A Major Trump Forum Scrubs Its Archives of Thousands of Pre-Riot Posts
In the days ahead of the January 6 Capitol riot, there were warnings, but no guarantee that the day would turn violent. But users of TheDonald.win, a major online pro-Trump forum, were preparing for a fight, posting maps of the Capitol and swapping messages about being ready to die.
In the wake of the carnage, law enforcement identified TheDonald.win as a key planning platform for the insurrectionists. And on Inauguration Day, the forum established a new domain, rebranding as Patriots.win. Alongside that transition, thousands of posts from lead up to the riot have disappeared from the site as though they were never there.
MORE A Major Trump Forum Scrubs Its Archives of Thousands of Pre-Riot Posts – Mother Jones
A majority of the people arrested for Capitol riot had a history of financial trouble
Jenna Ryan seemed like an unlikely participant in the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. She was a real estate agent from Texas. She flew into Washington on a private jet. And she was dressed that day in clothes better suited for a winter tailgate than a war.
Yet Ryan, 50, is accused of rushing into the Capitol past broken glass and blaring security alarms and, according to federal prosecutors, shouting: “Fight for freedom! Fight for freedom!”
But in a different way, she fit right in.
Despite her outward signs of success, Ryan had struggled financially for years. She was still paying off a $37,000 lien for unpaid federal taxes when she was arrested. She’d nearly lost her home to foreclosure before that. She filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and faced another IRS tax lien in 2010.
Nearly 60 percent of the people facing charges related to the Capitol riot showed signs of prior money troubles, including bankruptcies, notices of eviction or foreclosure, bad debts, or unpaid taxes over the past two decades, according to a Washington Post analysis of public records for 125 defendants with sufficient information to detail their financial histories.
The group’s bankruptcy rate — 18 percent — was nearly twice as high as that of the American public, The Post found. A quarter of them had been sued for money owed to a creditor. And 1 in 5 of them faced losing their home at one point, according to court filings.
The financial problems are revealing because they offer potential clues for understanding why so many Trump supporters — many with professional careers and few with violent criminal histories — were willing to participate in an attack egged on by the president’s rhetoric painting him and his supporters as undeserving victims.
While no single factor explains why someone decided to join in, experts say, Donald Trump and his brand of grievance politics tapped into something that resonated with the hundreds of people who descended on the Capitol in a historic burst of violence.
MORE A majority of the people arrested for Capitol riot had a history of financial trouble
Understand that I'm not an apologist for Trumps massive misjudgement on the day of the riot.
I'd like to know how many people were actually involved in the storming of the Capitol. After a thorough search of the net the only answer I get is "many".
This has been all over all the news channels for the last two days. I've had to forego my favourite programs for this fucking witchhunt masquerading as a trial.
This "trial" is going nowhere, there will never be a conviction, nor should there imo be one. The fact that the libtart news networks (probably under pressure from their respective political masters) are covering every song and dance coming out of the Democrats mouths is regrettable not to mention quite boring.
Now these idiots are talking about being on the right or wrong side of history. What utter nonsense. The sooner this charade ends, the better.
Trump is an uneducated idiot and as it turns out a dangerous man. That we can all agree on.
The cynical side of me fears this whole thing was stage managed. How many times did the Capital police request backup and were denied? Perhaps this should be the subject of the next thorough Senate investigation. I would caution all to resist jumping on this bandwagon. That's far more a threat to democracy than a handful of disenfranchised people behaving inappropriately at the Capital.
My two cents, fire away.
A true diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a manner that you will be asking for directions.
^ I beg to disagree lom. I've seen estimates of anywhere from 10,00-100,000. I was watching the event live and I thought maybe 100 to 200.
If anybody has a more accurate number please, I'm all ears.
I'm not an apologist for Trump. I just hate the feeding frenzy. If I'm perceived otherwise, I'll have to live with it.
Take good care.
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