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@David Blogmaster, best wishes of the holiday season and may you enjoy continued success in 2023 and well beyond. Peace!
@John Fellow your continued support of the comic-book super hero wannabe, non fungible token money grabbing former POTUS is understood but to continue to distort facts which clearly disprove your opinions is not … that’s just disturbing!
“Pelosi et al” as you termed it do NOT control or have ANY chain of command over the National Guard.
It is LUDRICOUS to suggest that the SAME man who appointed loyal subordinates to 1) Acting Sec of Def, (Miller) 2) Sec of the Army (McCarthy), Chief of Staff to Sec Def (Kash Patel) ALL of whom REFUSED to authorize the Nat Guard soldiers to proceed IMMEDIATELY to the capitol was some how prescient or being proactive with his off-hand remark about 10,000 troops!
The simple fact is that at ANY point in time on Jan 6 .. particularly after about 1:00 PM when it is reported that urgent calls were made for reinforcements the UNDISPUTED commander-in-chief could have ENFORCED his supposed prescient requests and DIRECTED guard soldiers to Washington.
And one can add : ‘as he essentially did to support the police against BLM protestors just a year previously’!
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de pedantic Dribbler
on December 26, 2022 at 3:32 PM said:
Rate This“Pelosi et al” as you termed it do NOT control or have ANY chain of command over the National Guard.
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So, who deployed the National Guard and put up all the fences around the building after J6 at a cost of over 1/2 billion dollars up to a year ago?
Have they been ordered to stand down and if so, who gave the order?
Pelosi as Speaker is responsible for security at the Capitol it’s really very simple.
Mitch holds some blame too.
Trump offered the National Guard, all she had to do was accept!!
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Pelosi et al
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“Capitol security is not solely the responsibility of the House speaker. It is provided by the sergeants-at-arms of the House and Senate, and by the Capitol Police.
The House sergeant-at-arms reports to the House speaker, or Pelosi at the time of the attack. The Senate sergeant-at-arms reports to the Senate majority leader — on Jan. 6, Sen. Mitch McConnell.
News reports indicate that in the days before the attack, House sergeant-at-arms Paul Irving resisted calls from the Capitol Police to bring in the National Guard for extra security at the Capitol because of “optics.” Irving later testified that intelligence reports didn’t show the need for the extra security, not that he rejected it because of optics.”
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A Black President triggered the racists.
When he returned Winston Churchill’s Bust to “Great” Britain it triggered Johnson Farage and UK Media.
Racists became trolls on Social Media and followed a nonsense “Birther Movement” where Trump became it’s figurehead.
When Obama roasted Trump in the Annual Press Conference dinner he decided to run for office. -
Looks like the J6 Committee has withdrawn the subpoena to compel Trump’s testimony.
I guess under new leadership it will get to the bottom of the lapse in security and get to hear from Pelosi et al.
Trump having a ball.
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Looks like this book might be a good read.
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With the extensive reports compiled by the Senate investigatory committees and Jan6 committee it is very clear whether Speaker Pelosi, Mitch McConnel, the Sergeants-at-arms of the House and Senate, the local Washington police chiefs or the former President is directly or indirectly responsible for the lapses, delays and dsyfunction! VERY clear.
You are either being deliberately deceptively fooling or just being a bit facetiously ‘fool-ish’ like that Republican fella Santos did with his ‘ish’!! 😎🤣🤣
**It was 45 who spoke of having 10,000 soldiers to PROTECT him and the protesters he invited to the capitol for his insurrectionist march. He NEVER asked, recommended or ordered soldiers to protect the capitol when the situation became violent!
*It was 45’s acting army secretary who SPECIFICALLY changed the chain of command just prior to Jan 6 to ORDER that any request for Nat guard soldiers had to be approved by him …
* Thus when that very request came from the police chiefs in Washington and was duly sent up to his office … for some INEXPLICABLE reason it took THREE hours to be finally approved and for soldiers to be on site!
*So it’s evidently total BULL cow-dung to continue the narrative that any sergeant-at-arms “resisted calls from the Capitol Police to bring in the National Guard for extra security at the Capitol because of ‘optics.’” It’s BULL!
*Such talk was offered from the offices of the Sec of Def, Gen. Flynn at Nat Guard (brother to the other infamous Flynn) and others but again the simple fact remains: a clear and direct order from the relevant folks in Homeland Security or Defense Dept would have IMMEDIATELY changed all the confusion!
They didn’t because they were cowed and CONCERNED about the true intent of their President!
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This is good.
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This is too.
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Sounds like the DOJ has prosecuted 800 plus people after the disturbance at the Capitol and in order to get convictions have claimed that the perps acted on their own and could not use a claim they were incited to violence by Trump or anyone else!!
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People who testified that they were “following presidential orders” from Donald Trump when they stormed the U.S. Capitol have been convicted …
FBI was reportedly warned agents were ‘sympathetic’ to Capitol rioters
The congressional panel claims Trump was the singular figure responsible for the attack on the Capitol
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House Music on January 1, 2023 at 1:56 AM said:
Rate ThisPeople who testified that they were “following presidential orders” from Donald Trump when they stormed the U.S. Capitol have been convicted …
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The individuals charged claimed to have been following Trump’s lead to escape conviction.
However, the prosecution, DOJ, argued they acted alone so as to convict them independently of Trump for their independent breach of the law!!!
Trump was not on the docket, they were, and their actions independent of Trump are what the DOJ relied on to gain convictions.
That is the comedy because having achieved 800 plus convictions they can’t turn around now and try to prosecute Trump for incitement!!
What they should have done is to include Trump in the 800 plus cases and make them one, but of course they would have got nothing.
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“Following Presidential Orders” was not a valid excuse
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Oh oh!!
Trouble in de town.
Ms. Mockley and the Judges better watch themselves!!
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Wrongs on January 2, 2023 at 2:17 AM said:
Rate This“Following Presidential Orders” was not a valid excuse
Trump acted illegally and so did the rioters++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
There has been absolutely no trial of Donald Trump.
No evidence he acted illegally!!
In fact, Congress is now looking at the Constitution to make future attempts like Trumps illegal …. which means he acted in accord with the highest law of the land.
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*Raw Dub Mix 2*
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It will be interesting to see how the Supreme Court decides in this case tomorrow.
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I see Biden has now been caught with classified documents held in an unsecured private office from his time as Vice President.
Only the President can declassify, whether by thought word or deed!!
Will be fun watching the drive by media squirm.
If they deal with this honestly, it means there are moves afoot to rid America of its fraudulently elected president.
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Why they got to humbug Trump.
It always backfires!!
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1 Corinthians 1:27
King James Version
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;It gets funnier and funnier!!
They should have left Trump alone.
Somebody up top laughing hard!!
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