Peter Navarro wants you to know they only intended to overthrow the government peacefully

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The first thing former Trump aide Peter Navarro did during a contentious interview on MSNBC on Tuesday night was try to differentiate his efforts to keep Joe Biden from taking office from those of the putsch that overwhelmed the U.S. Capitol one year ago.

“Great to be with you,” he said to host Ari Melber, then quickly pivoted to his talking points. “The ‘In Trump Time’ book” — he has a book! It is for sale! — “shows unequivocally that both [former Trump adviser] Stephen K. Bannon and President Trump should be exonerated of any violence on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6.”

After all, Navarro continued, their plan — the middle-aged-guys-who-like-action-movies-named “Green Bay Sweep” — was in place, with scores of Republicans ready to object to the results of the 2020 presidential vote in six states. “All this required was peace and calm on Capitol Hill,” he added, pointedly, as though the riot that unfolded on Capitol Hill was an unwelcome detriment to Trump’s otherwise sober effort to steal the presidency.

He played the same card in an interview with the Daily Beast last month, telling the site’s Jose Pagliery that the “sweep” “was a perfect plan. “And it all predicated on peace and calm on Capitol Hill. We didn’t even need any protestors, because we had over 100 congressmen committed to it.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/05/peter-navarro-wants-you-know-they-only-intended-overthrow-government-peacefully/

Hey Navarro, go fuck yourself.

[underpants]

1. This writer seems to be unaware that Green Bay Sweep is a football reference

Vince Lombardi’s powerhouse Packers of the 60’s bread and butter play was a sweep. Hornung and Taylor running the ball. “We need a seal here and a seal here” Lombardi said in the famous NFL film.

[Hoyt]

2. Hell, he'll just cite that to say Jan 6th storming of Capitol was not trumped up.

[viva la]

3. Considering his plan required something to happen to the VP...

And a riot violent enough to postpone or cancel Congress...

I think he's lying. It was predicated on a mob stopping the counting, and it almost happened, and people died.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. The Lincoln Project-Peter Navarro says the quiet part out loud.

Link to tweet

[RussBLib]

5. could be that once Pence declined to cooperate

with the plan, they switched to a backup plan: storm the Capitol and take the boxes that contained the Electoral results. Burn them, by accident.

or kidnap Pence, torture him, and make him cooperate. But Pence refused to get in the black limo with people he did not recognize.

.... and who disengaged Congress' panic buttons?

...and why did it take the National Guard so long to show up?

Many unanswered questions, still, so charges are still premature.