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Impeach. Remove. Bar from Office.
For two months, President Donald Trump has promoted increasingly unhinged conspiracy theories and fanned the flames of outrage among his most dedicated supporters. Today, America learned that some people on the fringe took this all too seriously. Following a particularly ugly Trump speech, the crowd tore down barriers surrounding the US Capitol, assaulted police officers, and forced their way in. The following photos are not from Caracas or Minsk, but the capital city of the most powerful nation on earth.
At the Trump rally, Rudy Giuliani called for a “trial by combat.” He got it. Multiple injuries to law enforcement officers have been reported by the Capitol Police.
Shots were reported fired in the Capitol itself. One “protestor” was shot in the neck and carried away on a stretcher.
As the siege intensified, Trump blasted his own vice president on Twitter for refusing to break the law and overturn the election.
Senators, Representatives, and Capitol Hill staff fled the building for safety.
Later, Trump tweeted that his supporters shouldn’t use violence against the police. It was already too late.
Trump finally uploaded a video, spending the vast majority of the time claiming the election was stolen, but adding that the mob ransacking the Capitol should go home.
These are not protestors. They are terrorists. They are insurrectionists.
Just like Antifa over the summer, MAGAtifa needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
GOP Senators planning to protest the vote need to stop their grandstanding and accept the results.
Since the sitting president seems unwilling to strenuously condemn the violence he urged on, Vice President Pence should confer with the Cabinet to remove Trump via the 25th Amendment of the Constitution.
Congress should then bar Donald Trump from ever holding a future federal office.
Enough.
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Yes.
So the left was right all along.
“Orange Man bad” is an understatement.
What is happening at the Capitol is atrocious.
This post seems to be a serious overreaction.
I’m glad we’ve already figured out the allegiances of all those involved. That saves a lot of trouble.
By the way, news reports (including this from the NY Post) indicate that President Trump has called out the National Guard to put down this lawlessness. So the President has done more than condemn the violence. He is taking concrete and proper action.
The unhinged cries of fraud are crazy- I am not saying there wasn’t fraud- but if you have no good evidence then you don’t make accusations. But many here sadly continue to assert that the tweets & press releases alleging fraud are PROOF of fraud. Meanwhile, in court cases Powell et al don’t contest the vote d/t fraud but claim procedural problems with NO serious evidence that it altered the outcome. Trump (and even more some some of his supporters) is destroying any chance of a positive legacy. You do not endanger the Constitution for partisan advantage, especially when you have exactly no chance.
Both parties have to get serious about dialing back the rhetoric & truthfully condemning the nuts on their side of the spectrum- no more mostly peaceful BLM protests- not more MAGA they stole the election rallies.
addendum- any one claiming this is a false flag operation is probably beyond help…..that is exactly what the left claimed during riots last summer….
Now matter how low Trump goes, he can not hit bottom. What a disgrace Trump is to the United States of America.
He invited them and he incited them. And the only words he had to say after the mob took over were to encourage more of the same. A disgrace unfit for office.
Interesting shots. They add credence to the AntiFa infiltration theory. It’s unlikely that many MAGA-types take Black Helmets — like we’ve seen throughout Antifastan — to rallies.
I just wish Biden, Pelosi, et al had made statements like the following back in the Spring/Summer:
Yes. Trump can be impeached after his term ends. The conviction would not remove him from office but would permanently prohibit him from holding any future public office.
There must be a consequence for Trump’s pressure of Georgia’s Secretary of State, and then his egging on of the protesters. Prosecution, impeachment, 25th Amendment, I don’t know which is best. But there must be a consequence other than a mere “tut, tut.”
The helmets started 4 years ago, because the police let the violence happen.
The bitterness continues and the shallow thinkers take their victory laps. How telling it is that you can’t contain a view that you’ve already expressed ad nauseam at such a serious time.
Sitting here trying to come up with something to add, but nah. Seconded.
Anyone who got into the Capitol needs to be fully prosecuted. And we can sort out who is who.
No
As he should. Unlike Mayor Muriel.
Yeah. I suspect some of the insurrectionists are not Trump supporters. Pretty easy to infiltrate a rally and perpetrate some false flag violence. However: the rally itself should never have taken place. To even think of holding such an event on the day the Senate ceremoniously hands over power from one administration to another is an insult to our Constitutional order. Louie Gomert (“be as violent as antifa”) and Rudy Giuliani (“trial by combat”) should arrested and tried for inciting violence. And Trump should be impeached and removed before he officially leaves office.
But that is all you want for Biden’s in person pressuring of the Ukrainian government…
Whoever breaches the Capitol must be fully prosecuted. We will sort out who is who while they are in prison.
If true, will this be covered in the press?
Editor of Ricochet jumping to conclusion before any formal reports. WOW!
“I’m dousing you in gasoline. Please do not smoke on your way out.”
Seeing a Confederate flag marched through the capitol building has done it for me. The President has damaged this country and corrupted the party in a way that will take decades to recover. My feeling about my 3rd party vote in 2016 is a lot better right now than my vote for Trump in 2020. This is what I feared most: leaving the bulwark against progressive excess in shambles.
It didn’t have to happen this way. He had a decent presidential legacy. But he had to pretend there was a grand conspiracy that stole millions of votes from him, and then pretend there was a way to contest this after court after court threw out the cases.
Apparently if it’s not on Fox News it’s not to be believed.
CNN might trot out the “Fiery, but otherwise Peaceful” chryon
The ridding of all the hobby horses is certainly amusing.
I suppose that we should all be outraged that one person with a Confederate battle flag made his way into the Capitol. It would be interesting to find out how Trump managed to smuggle him in, but, then, since it was one person, I suppose it wouldn’t have been too hard.
I had to look twice to be sure I had the author of this post right, as at first glance I just assumed it was the resident Never Trumper and supporter of such left-wing causes as The Lincoln Project, @garyrobbins, and must say I find Jerry’s words “serious overreaction” to be as kind as anyone could put it; mine would be much less diplomatic. Perhaps my post of a few minutes ago (#20 to the post “I hated it in Seattle and Portland and I hate it now too) will illustrate my concern for this kind of “overreaction” and seriously questionable judgment, now coming from the Editor of this esteemed publication. What in the hell are we coming to?