US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has accused President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, of provoking the January 6 riot at the Capitol.
"The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the President and other powerful people," McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday.
That mob beat a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher and flagpoles. They stormed the Capitol to seize power and kill Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi, and others. This isn’t speculation. It’s on hours of video, and in a waterfall of indictments. Mobs seek blood. Trump’s mob sought it that day, and failed.
America is protected by some Providence, be it divine or just the stumbling, ratfuck incompetence of so many of our enemies. The effort to seize the Capitol was a strategic failure and a tactical mess.
Heroic D.C. Police and Capitol Police pushed back the mob and ended the first and let us hope only battle of the Trump Civil War. They protected elected leaders of both parties from assault, violence, and murder. — Rick Wilson
When the ex-president's farewell attracts more audiences than the inauguration of his successor, it is impossible to fail to realize that the result of the election is somewhat doubtful. — Banjo
There were very few people at his farewell speech btw: mostly media, his family and the military he requested. — Kenosha Kid
Fake news, the crowed was HUGE. No ones ever seen a farewell crowd so massive. — praxis
Fake news, the crowed was HUGE. No ones ever seen a farewell crowd so massive. — praxis
What will the hysterical masses do without the winds of Trump directing their moral weathervane? — NOS4A2
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