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ItsjustMe

(11,230 posts)
Sun Jan 2, 2022, 04:52 PM Jan 2022

Cheney reveals what Trump was doing during January 6 insurrection (CNN)

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the vice chair of the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, said in an interview with CBS that the committee has "firsthand testimony" that former President Donald Trump was watching the attack on the Capitol from the White House.

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bucolic_frolic

(43,128 posts)
1. Dereliction of duty, Commander-in-Chief failing to stop assault on the Capitol?
Sun Jan 2, 2022, 04:59 PM
Jan 2022

All that violence, all that damage to that sacred building, to the sovereignty of the nation, to the people and authorities.

alterfurz

(2,474 posts)
3. gross dereliction of duty, reckless endangerment, negligent homicide...
Sun Jan 2, 2022, 05:26 PM
Jan 2022

...prosecute his huge, flabby, orange ass!

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,833 posts)
2. If only the insurrectionists were on the grounds of a church Trump's never visited...
Sun Jan 2, 2022, 05:13 PM
Jan 2022

He'd have been on that like secret sauce on a Big Mac.

Aussie105

(5,380 posts)
4. A full year to clarify what happened on the day?
Sun Jan 2, 2022, 05:40 PM
Jan 2022

Vision and events on the day make it quite clear that:

TFG stirred up the crowd and told them what to do.

TFG sat back and watched, hoping that it would succeed and he would be reinstated.

Others ran around and pleaded with him to stop the violence he had started, but he ignored them.

When it became clear the insurrection was failing, he made a token effort to disconnect.

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I can't get past the idea that the POTUS of the day ignored
his obligations to protect the USA and it's citizens from harm.
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Was it just 'rowdy tourists' on the day, an insurrection to try to overthrow the Government, or an attempted pogrom?

POGROM:
"A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The Slavic term originally entered the English language as a descriptive term for 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews"

In this case, it was an attempted pogrom against Democrats (Pelosi and others) and anyone else who didn't do what TFG wanted done (Pence for instance).



WHITT

(2,868 posts)
6. The Committee
Sun Jan 2, 2022, 08:03 PM
Jan 2022

wants to see the earlier videos of the one they finally released (we love you, you're very special), as it's possible Donnie may have incriminated himself in the earlier versions.



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