I learned something new on Bannon‘s Warroom today..... that, by the time the protesters who had been at the Trump speech arrived at the Capitol, there were no barricades at all. They just walked in, not even realizing that the bicycle rack type barricades had been pushed over.
We have seen the videos of these “insurrectionists” walking through the Capitol rotunda, staying between the velvet ropes. It is a most impressive room in a very impressive building. Many of the people were probably in DC for the first time and most were inside the capitol building for the first time.
A government that could orchestrate the Russia collusion attacks on Trump that one on for years would have no problem orchestrating this fake insurrection. The useful idiots who just walked through have hurt both themselves and the MAGA cause greatly.
The very first group (which included Ray Epps) to approach the Capitol breached the outer security barricades (100 yards or more from the Capitol itself) long before Trump was finished speaking and well before the Proud Boys arrived. They removed the fencing and no-trespassing signs so that people who arrived later wouldn't even know it was a restricted area. The ordinary Trump supporters who arrived later were like cattle being led to slaughter.
That place where the barricades were initially breached was protected by only five police officers.