Posted on 12/15/2021 5:31:38 PM PST by Ennis85
As cable television broadcast the scenes of Trump supporters breaking past police lines and even smashing their way into the Capitol on January 6, the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., texted Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff: “He’s got to condemn this sh** ASAP. The Capitol Police tweet is not enough.”
A little later, Don Jr. texted again: “We need an Oval office address. He [then-president Trump] has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand.”
It’s that last statement that reveals the whole truth of January 6 for Trump’s supporters. Donald Trump’s claims of massive election fraud (only in the states he lost, btw) were treated by people around him as a kind of naughty habit that had to be tolerated or indulged. When the people who treated these claims very seriously started acting like they were true — when they tried to “Stop the Steal” by interrupting the ceremony in which Congress certifies the results of the presidential election — then it had “gone too far and gotten out of hand.”
For those few hours, several people in the conservative media world who had influence with the president tried to intervene on behalf of reality. “Please, get him on TV — [the Capitol riot is] destroying everything you accomplished,” Brian Kilmeade texted Meadows.
“Can he make a statement, ask people to leave the Capitol?” pleaded Sean Hannity.
Just as Tucker Carlson had once traveled to Mar-a-Lago to ask the president to take the Covid-19 pandemic more seriously, these Fox hosts were intervening with a man who they knew took television seriously, more seriously than his constitutional duties.
Hearing the texts read aloud at this late date in the year does provide a sense of clarity. Many of Trump’s lies before this seemed to have little cost at all. Many of them had been brazened out until they produced a kind of success. The lies that Trump told that day to that crowd had produced this specific, televised disaster. Unfortunately, it was a predicted disaster. But almost everyone knew it was wrong while it was happening. It took effort to forget.
In the months after January 6, the politically correct move for Trump’s cable-news apologists has been to ignore the fact that the people who set about “investigating” the supposed vote fraud have turned up nothing of consequence or merit. Or, it has been to focus obsessively on the potential involvement of the FBI or other intel agencies in the riots, to speculate about who may have been planted as agent provocateurs in the crowd. This is worth inquiring about, especially after the FBI’s cack-handed work trying to instigate a kidnapping plot against Governor Whitmer went south.
But the riot at the Capitol happened because President Donald Trump simply lied, and lied, and lied. On that very day he lied about what the vice president’s powers were. “All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify, and we become president, and you are the happiest people,” he told the crowd.
Presidents have a duty to protect the Constitution; on that day Trump was subverting it. Even as the ugly scenes were unfolding, Trump seemed to be instigating the crowd even further, as if he were trying to put more coercive pressure on his own vice president. He tweeted:
Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!
There is a kind of partisan kick-reflex that is surely active in many people reading this. The reflex kicks: The Left is at war with the Right. It kicks again: Stop punching to your right. It kicks again: Stop trying to police the Right and stop trying to make it respectable to the Left.
But it’s not them I care about. It’s simply the truth. Treating Trump like a baby whose feelings had to be coddled at the end resulted in Ashli Babbitt’s getting shot as she tried to break into Congress against a lawful order to desist. He could no more Stop the Steal than make Mexico pay for the wall. But, pay for his actions? Some people did.
I don’t know which rich leftists are funding National Review but I know it turned into a collection of misfits, unimportant wannabees and servants of Baal who are best ignored.
Michael Brendan "Brandon" Dougherty - vote fraud denier.
Closet Democrat and probably a Commie.
Michael "Brandon" Dougherty, Democrat scum.
“Trump seemed to be instigating the crowd even further...”
Trump’s last words to the rally was to proceed peacefully.
That, of course, is a dog whistle to raise hell. Everybody knows that. Reverse psychology.
Yep, during the hullabaloo, when it seemed to be a totally frenetic, discordant, mindless riot, Trump was coolly ordering the mob and they were listening intently. Yes.
The writer is a complete idiot.
National Review = entryism.
Any one of us here could have told them at the time that the Capitol Riots were either an Antifa or FBI black flag operation. I knew it as soon as I saw it, as did most everyone here on FR.
Worse, where are the similar text messages from the terror sponsors in the DNC over the White House attacks in late May 2020? ShiftySchiff won’t read those messages, now will he?
Or maybe he can’t, because nobody on the left thought those attacks, and that attempted coup, were a problem.
No he didn’t.
I used to buy that rag. If I still bought it, it would be for a TP backup…
William F. must be spinning in his grave.
I believe the ultimate solution to election fraud is to switch the burden of proof away from citizens seeking to prove fraud, to election officials who should be required to demonstrate the complete absence of fraud.
They had better be different election officials, because if they’re the same ones, you’ll never get honesty out of them.
You're absolutely right.
Specifically Pelosi and her DC internal contacts and fibbies with BLM/AntiFA local plants on their payroll ran a false flag operation.
Which is why we will never see this so called J6 “commission” demand Pelosi’s texts and phone logs— because the truth is, she ran it. She controls the Capitol Police.. and somebody allowed the electronic vault like security doors to the Capitol to be opened, and tole the Police to let people in.
Videographers hired to document 14K hours of video— not allowed to be seen, but cached by some dedicated Patriots.
The Senate Republicans in the select 6 states— were going to object to the Certification of the EVs from their state, as is their oversight in the Constitution. Pelosi could not allow this to happen— so this is how she foiled this. And she had help (seen bumping elbows with Mike Pence after the “certification” because of — what they have on Pence).
The priority of trying to federalize our national elections— and take it away from the Constitution’s “States run them and the Electoral College power— is PROOF they cannot allow States to have the ability in the process to prevent their STEALS.
This is what they call ridiculously— “Voter’s Rights Act” -— so far from the truth of their wanting a permanent LOCK on free elections.
To the point they want to eliminate the Filibuster to do so— and they MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO DO THIS.
Who is this A@@ clown— Liz Cheney’s publicist? What an octo maroon at a magazine that Bill Buckley would have fired this clown— actually NEVER allowed to write anything for them.
Outstanding resources and posting of them! Thank you. Saving to file— this is serious evidence. Baric is still at UNC, and the “chinese” scientist stole the stuff and took off to china— she was People’s Liberation Army. Another one was caught in edmonton, Canada airport with 18 vials— he didn’t take them with him, but they still let him go.
this was a PLAN, very precisely worked out.
Michael Brendan Dougherty looks like he ought to be on a sex offender registry.
“The man had every right to be upset. Unverified mail in voting might as well be a copy machine contest.”
The cheating was massive. Anyone with two eyeballs and an once of common sense knows this. Everyone is thinking small. They dumped around 500,000 extra votes in most battleground states except two (those dumps happened early morning in a few-hour span after stopping vote counting). The two battleground states left they only added a few hundred thousand.
One thing we are letting slide is Facebook’s $400,000,000 contributions in staffing the cheating. The cheating was well funded by big tech along with the censoring. I don’t think the Dems would have been able to cheat so massively without Facebook’s help.
One last thing. We are expected to believe that 84% of all adults in VA turned out for the Presidential election. When the national average was around 55% in 2016.
VA voter participation was 84% of all voting age adults.
WI voter participation was 74% of all voting age adults.
GA voter participation was 80% of all voting age adults.
Less Cheating after DeSantis replace Dade County Supervisor
FL voter participation was 59% of all voting age adults.
The average voter turnout for presidential elections is around 55%. Yet, almost all battleground states (suspected of cheating) managed over 80% turnout.
Presidential Elections VA - The unwatched 2020 election Biden picks up 500,000 extra voters. Way out of the statistical norm.
Obama 1 = 1,959,532
Obama 2 = 1,971,820
Hillary = 1,981,473
Biden = 2,413,568
GA
1,773,827 Obama
1,837,300 Clinton GA
2,473,633 Biden (+35%)
Penn
2,990,274 Obama
2,926,441 Clinton
3,459,923 Biden (+19%)
MI
2,564,569 Obama
2,268,839 Clinton
2,804,040 Biden (+24%)
WI
1,620,985 Obama
1,382,536 Clinton
1,630,866 Biden (+18%)
AZ
1,025,232 Obama
1,161,167 Clinton
1,672,143 Biden (+44%)
NV
531,373 Obama
539,260 Clinton
703,486 Biden (+30)
“The man had every right to be upset. Unverified mail in voting might as well be a copy machine contest.”
Exactly,
If absentee and mail in ballots don’t have names, addresses, and a signatures on the “Stinking Ballots.”
How can forensic geniuses verify the legitimacy of our elections?
Answer:
They can’t, because once “cheat by mail” ballots leave the signature envelopes, getting mixed in with other ballots, they lose their paper trail.
Perry Mason or Sherlock Holmes wouldn’t have a chance, in a courtroom with this election fraud.
Urban voters have been cheating since Tammany Hall days with Boss Tweed. Either we get tough or cheat better.
A 1/2 hour ago I just registered 2 new Trump Republicans who didn’t vote in the last election. Its surprising, how far a free 6 pack of beer and Trump hats can go to furthering an objective.
Great post BushCountry,
What I like about you.
Is you’re a numbers and data type.
The number of irregularities in 2020 is undeniable. The 2020 election fraud doesn’t need a courtroom, its clear to everyone but ideologues & the blind that Trump was cheated.
Thanks for doing the work.
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