There was plenty of finger-pointing at yesterday’s Senate hearing, which was mostly a preview of a coming attraction.
The memo was the topic of much discussion at yesterday’s Senate hearings on the January 6 riot. It came from the FBI’s Norfolk office on January 5, and it provided a stark warning. It also painted a picture of unequivocal premeditation by a relative handful of zealots — not a picture of thousands of garden-variety Trump supporters who’d heard the president speak just moments before and decided to head up Pennsylvania Avenue to start a riot at the Capitol building.
And the memo was reported on by The Washington Post just six days after the riot, so the incessant “incitement” claim made by House Democrats in their impeachment of President Trump was already a dubious one. But we knew that.
The FBI’s memo spoke of “individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and South Carolina and head in groups to Washington.”
“As of 5 January 2021,” the document says, “FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington, D.C. An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa [sic] slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
“These people came specifically with equipment,” said former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund during a rare joint hearing with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Rules Committee. “You’re bringing climbing gear to a demonstration, explosives, chemical spray — you’re coming prepared. The fact that the group attacked our West Front 20 minutes before the event at the Ellipse ended — they were planning on our agency not being at full strength at that time.”
Well, gosh! That certainly doesn’t support the Left’s narrative of the events!
The hurry to certify electors was planned by Pelosi, et al, who clearly knew of
the events about to unfold, and perhaps gave orders to minimize defense of
the Capitol to promote the unlawful ingress of anti-Trump, paramilitary-trained
provocateurs.
Im tellin ya….lame stream is jammin Jan 6th down everyones throats…most arent listening. Most need the stim…(long term huts everyone)…hell lame stream did an audible with TIGER. Nothing about the stock market shitting a brick. Nothing about gas prices. Hell truly nothing about our military action overseas. Jan 6th. R u kidding me?
Failure is lame stream.