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President Trump Speaks to the Nation: January 13, 2021
What is needed now is for us to listen to one another, not to silence one another.
All of us can choose, by our actions, to rise above the rancor and find common ground and shared purpose.
We must focus on advancing the interests of the whole nation.
Early on January 13, 2021, the White House posted this statement, which the leftist billionaires have blocked from social (control) media.
LAW & JUSTICE Issued on: January 13, 2021
In light of reports of more demonstrations, I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind. That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers. Thank You.
He then gave a brief address far more presidential and truly American than anything mouthed by Joe Biden. This post begins with a quote from that address. I advise you download the video before Google/YouTube disappears it.
Here is the automated transcript from C-SPAN, edited by me for regular capitalization and correcting errors:
Published in PoliticsMy fellow Americans, I want to speak to you tonight about the troubling events of the past week.
As I have said, the incursion of the U.S. Capitol struck at the very heart of our republic. It angered and appalled millions of Americans across the political spectrum.
I want to be very clear. I unequivocally condemn the violence that we saw last week. Violence and vandalism have absolutely no place in our country, and no place in our movement. Making America Great Again has always been about do defending the rule of law, supporting the men and women of law enforcement, and upholding our nation’s most sacred traditions and values.
Mob violence goes against everything that i believe in, and everything that are movement stands for. No true supporter of mine could ever endorse political violence. No true supporter of mine can ever disrespect law enforcement or our great American flag. No true supporter of mine could ever threaten or harass their fellow Americans.
If you do any of these things, you are not supporting our movement. You are attacking it, and you are attacking our country. We cannot tolerate it. Tragically, over the course of the last year, made so difficult because of COVID-19, we’ve seen political violence spiral out of control. We have seen too many riots, too many mobs, too many acts of intimidation and destruction. It must stop. Whether you are on the right or on the left, a Democrat or a Republican, there is never a justification for violence, no excuses, no exceptions. America is a nation of laws. Those who engaged in the attacks last week, will be brought to justice.
Now I am asking everyone who has ever believed in our agenda, to be thinking of ways to ease tensions, calm tempers, and help to promote peace in our country. There has been reporting that additional demonstrations are being planned in the coming days, both here in Washington, and across the country. I have been briefed by the U.S. Secret Service on the potential threats.
Every American deserves to have their voice heard in a respectful and peaceful way. That is your First Amendment right. But i cannot emphasize that there must be no violence, no lawbreaking, and no vandalism of any kind. Everyone must follow our laws and obey the instructions of law enforcement.
I have directed federal agencies to use all necessary resources to maintain order. In Washington D.C., we are bringing in thousands of National Guard members to secure the city and ensure that a transition can occur safely and without incident. Like all of you, I was shocked and deeply saddened by the calamity at the capitol last week. I want to thank the hundreds of millions of incredible American citizens who have responded to this moment with calm, moderation, and grace. We will get through this challenge, just like we always do.
I also want to say a few words about the unprecedented assault on free speech we have seen in recent days. These are tense and difficult times. The efforts to censor, cancel, and blacklist our fellow citizens are wrong and they are dangerous. What is needed now is for us to listen to one another, not to silence to one another.
All of us can choose by our actions to rise above the rancor and find common ground and shared purpose. We must focus on advancing the interests of the whole nation, delivering the miracle vaccines, defeating the pandemic, rebuilding the economy, protecting our national security, and upholding the rule of law.
Today, i am calling on all Americans to overcome the passions of the moment and joined together as one American people. Let us choose to move forward united for the good of our families, our communities, and our country.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
I keep quoting Gary Scott Morson’s Suicide of the Liberals, but it keeps on seeming relevant. For example, regarding the liberals of pre-Revolutionary Russia:
We must all be very careful with the Democrats. The Democrats tell themselves and our children that they are the kumbaya doves of the world and the Republicans are the hawks. Every violent bad thing in the world that has ever happened and will happen was done or will be done at the hands of the war-mongering racist rich Republicans.
I grew up in a small town north of Boston, and I was so completely brainwashed that it took years to get out of it intellectually. The Democrats have been controlling education for decades, and their mind control runs very deep. As Lincoln said, the hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation.
When I was in my thirties, I was jolted into earthquake-level shock by the thought that it was a Democrat who authorized our dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and another one on Nagasaki. I have had a lifelong battle in my head over that decision–there are compelling arguments on both sides as to whether it was morally right. My point here, however, is that the brainwashing and mind-control efforts and successes on the left are wild and effective.
People focus on the year in the title 1984, but I think it’s more important to focus on its copyright date: 1949.
They have been at this for a long time, they have brainwashed millions of people, and their ranks are growing, not shrinking.
I think the Washington Democrats have been putting tremendous pressure on President Trump. That’s why that rally on January 6 meant so much to him. It’s why he is plainly exhausted.
a double post–sorry :-)
Yes.
“And Brutus is an honorable man.”
Very telling was that when the Capitol was under attack, Trump watched with glee, and did nothing to order in the National Guard to protect the capitol. Actions are stronger than words.
This is the Big Lie. Trump forces had over 60 Court hearings to be able to introduce evidence of said “steal.” They did not. If they had had evidence, they would have presented it. But they didn’t. It is time to set aside the Big Lie that the Democrats stole the 2020 election.
I don’t support the persecution of the Trump children, with the exception of DJTJ.
I’m sorry you’re so cynical that you have to deny plain and obvious words. You might be taken more seriously here if you did not have to lamely dispute everything that doesn’t fit your preferred narrative. Please substantiate your comment that Trump watched with “glee.”
I feel sorry for the Trump family and the whole mess. Trump has fought back against lies and trumped up charges for his entire presidency. There was no honeymoon period after he was sworn in, totally unlike past presidencies. He leaves embittered and pursued by an angry mob of leftists who will be after him until his dying day. When I think back to the times I have been disappointed in some of his intemperate remarks, I now wonder how anyone would react as they watch the lies being told about them day after day.
This is just plain sick. Shame on you.
Is it possible that President Trump is under some kind of bizarre
house arrestsupervision right now? The unanimous negative statement about him from the generals is concerning. And he sounds very strained in this five-minute speech.Are Jared Kushner and Kayley McEnany still on the White House premises with him?
I hope he hires his own private security after he leaves office so he does not take the Democrats’ Secret Service with him.
He went to Texas the other day.
Good. :-)
Assuming facts not in evidence.
Looks like the BLM guy is being changed after all. Justice. He claimed he was a journalist just filming it, but he wasn’t. I wonder if the article that said he was released without charges was faux news.
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/fbi-agent-says-progressive-activist-was-participating-capitol-riot
That could be very good news if it indicates they’re willing to go anywhere this leads. There’s a video (linked to here someplace) of the Babbitt shooting in which two other guys are very prominent in the mayhem. I want to know who they are.
Yes, he was there to celebrate the completion of some number of miles of border fence and to highlight the effectiveness of the wall and the fact that new “caravans” are forming to rush our border with Biden assumed to let them in and let them stay.
Here is Mr. Sullivan in his native habitat. Warning for non-COC compliant foul language (of course).
@garyrobbins you should look at Wikipedia’s definition of “persecution”.
Read the text. Stopped the video when Comey came on, that was a bridge too far.
There is nothing I read or heard in the link that might give me hope “investigators” will find any evidence that anybody but normal Trump supporters are responsible for the trouble. I did note that CNN managed to suggest direct involvement of Republican congressmen.
And I certainly read nothing to make me think CNN would honestly report it if/when good evidence of left wing involvement shows up.
Got that right!
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Here is the factual basis for my statement that Trump was delighted and excited with the assault on the Capitol https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533403-sasse-says-trump-was-delighted-and-excited-by-reports-of-capitol-riot
“Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said Friday that he heard from senior White House officials that President Trump was ‘delighted’ to hear that his supporters were breaking into the Capitol building in a riot Wednesday that turned deadly.
“‘As this was unfolding on television, Donald Trump was walking around the White House confused about why other people on his team weren’t as excited as he was as you had rioters pushing against Capitol Police trying to get into the building,’ Sasse told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt in an interview. ‘That was happening. He was delighted.'”
I hope I am not too off-topic, but what do you think of this article? It sounds similar to what Michael Yon has reported.
https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2021/01/13/covert-cadre-what-i-saw-leading-up-to-the-us-capitol-attack/
We should at least be happy for an answer. The fact that it is double hearsay–so incredibly lame–is certainly a sign of the irresponsibility of posting this. As always, we can count on a member with no credibility to continue to contest the obvious. So what else is new?
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As to claims, pro and con, I refer readers to “It Ain’t Necessarily So.”
And where was the incitation to violence? Just the time mark.
Trump was never at the Capitol, nor in sight of it. He delivered his address a mile and a half away, and his supporters than marched to the Capitol. And the Secretary of the Army engaged immediately when the situation went south, before Trump had even completed his address. The Capitol Police are a creature of Congress, not the executive, and their lack of preparation was a concern among government agencies that would normally coordinate support for s large event. And the mayor of Washington was advising the feds that they would not be needed while she provided no assistance.
The National Guard for every local jurisdiction was activated, formed a perimeter, and cleared the building quickly and efficiently given the circumstances.
Your lurid fantasies have no foundation in reality.
Is this an outright threat or just hyperbole?
Why can’t they ever just do their job? It’s always we didn’t know but we’ll prepare, then we didn’t prepare, but now we’ll know, or we knew what we should do – we just didn’t do it. Scouts have more sense than that.