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Mitch McConnell slams ‘shocking failures’ of security at US Capitol
nypost ^ | 01/07/2021 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 01/07/2021 12:12:24 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he’s concerned about the “shocking failures” of security at the Capitol, when a mob of President Trump’s supporters was able to break into the premises in an attempt to halt certification of Trump’s re-election defeat.

“The ultimate blame for yesterday lies with the unhinged criminals who broke down doors, trampled our nation’s flag, fought with law enforcement, and tried to disrupt our democracy, and with those who incited them,” McConnell said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: capitol; gopshockingfailure; mcconnell; security; slams
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Must be Trumps fault again.
1 posted on 01/07/2021 12:12:24 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He was hiding in his shell. Too bad a semi didnt come along and run over him.


2 posted on 01/07/2021 12:13:47 PM PST by Old Yeller (Joe McCarthy was right.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

FUMM and your Chinese whore.


3 posted on 01/07/2021 12:14:32 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There you have it. At least 90% of DC is against the patriots. Any thoughts of the military or the police supporting conservatives is probably gone now.


4 posted on 01/07/2021 12:14:47 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Deep State left the doors unsecured.

Deliberately.


5 posted on 01/07/2021 12:15:10 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Says the criminal who allowed massive fraud without a whimper of protest. He has been the enemy all along.


6 posted on 01/07/2021 12:15:45 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
and with those who incited them

See where this is going.
7 posted on 01/07/2021 12:15:48 PM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

after nancy got mad over the social distancing..and ordered people out of chambers..they all had to gather in a tight knit crowd

a bunch of them should be getting Covid soon from the super spreader event.


8 posted on 01/07/2021 12:18:13 PM PST by RummyChick (I do not advocate laying siege on the Capitol. Keep me off that list.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bitch McConnel should shut the F’ up. All this bastard has done is whatever it takes to hide his backroom, under the table deals with the Chinese communists. That’s why he’s stabbed us all in the back and helped the democrats win everything, all to keep anyone in the media from exposing his selling us down the river to China.

Yeah, I hate him.


9 posted on 01/07/2021 12:19:10 PM PST by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another example showing that the deep state is incredibly inept at security and intelligence. And this was in the deep state’s front yard.


10 posted on 01/07/2021 12:20:21 PM PST by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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Mitch McConnell slams ‘shocking failures’ of security at US Capitol

All I heard on the tube was "how prepared and professional the Capital Hill Police" were, but I kept thinking:

1. They KNEW a huge, emotional crowd was planned;
2. They KNEW, or should've known, that a contentious electoral count was scheduled with BOTH Houses of congress;
3. They had previously received threats, including that a plane was going to crash into the Capital.

So how did protestors gain entry, apparently with relative ease?

11 posted on 01/07/2021 12:20:34 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (A Deplorable behind enemy lines in the newly occupied socialist state of Georgia)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So he’s pretending to be all outraged? He must KNOW that the capitol “security” was in on the deal, to encourage the “protestors” to enter the building, if not worse.


12 posted on 01/07/2021 12:20:42 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Four people are dead, one shot, 3 by medical emergencies after being shoved around by police , without cause.
But you’ll hear nothing in the news, Meanwhile thousands looted and committed arson without ANY gun barrels leveled at them in Minneapolis and Seattle.

They were unarmed at the Capitol and simply going into the People’s House.No acts of looting or arson were committed like in Minneapolis and Portland. The Pearl Clutchers, particularly in the Republican Party, were almost dying of apoplexy because the supposedly sacred precincts of Congress used to attempt a usurpation of the President for 4 long years were invaded while the precincts of Minneapolis and Seattle are defined as less sacred? A line was crossed? Buahahahahahahahaha!

Democrat lefty srson, and lootimg violence OK, Republican protest BAD!Shoot the Republicans?

What a laugh? The Democrats CAUSED THIS. But the Republicans are clutching their pearls instead of fighting back.

The pearl clutchers are so upset over the fact that Republicans became slightly “violent” after 4 years of the Swamp trying to usurp a duly elected president of the United States.

Ashli Babbit was shot by an elderly man in a suit, it was video taped. Yet the man remains unidentified? Murder was committed against an unarmed woman squeezing through a barrier in a hallway.

This is not over.

Mitch himself and his tongue in cheek back stabbing of the President helped cause this over 4 years.


13 posted on 01/07/2021 12:21:59 PM PST by Candor7
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To: RummyChick

Just shut up you useless turd. Crawl backinto your shell and wait for your next installment from China.


14 posted on 01/07/2021 12:22:36 PM PST by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I suspect Pelosi PLANNED it


15 posted on 01/07/2021 12:23:07 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

“So how did protestors gain entry, apparently with relative ease?”

Because up to now conservatives have never BLM at marches or protest. We picked up our garbage at the end of a rally. We were safe compared to BLM or Antifa and the police let their guard down.

That will be the last time.


16 posted on 01/07/2021 12:25:06 PM PST by setter
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To: dfwgator

Reading the excerpt NY Post is sounding like the NY Times.

Not a smidgen of election fraud. Not a smidgen.

Of course we always knew Democrats and the GOPe would back the Democrat coup.


17 posted on 01/07/2021 12:25:47 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: JayAr36

He’s not wrong. There were many media reports this week of Iran threatening the Capitol with an airplane strike. Foreign enemies could have easily blended in with the Trump supporters and shot up or bombed the place with an inadequete Capitol Police to defend the Congressman and women.

The national security failure is shockingly scary. Apparently, the DC mayor is the one who refused to have the national guard protecting the capitol the day before.


18 posted on 01/07/2021 12:26:12 PM PST by springwater13
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To: ChicagoConservative27
How is colluding with the enemy "failure"?

They Opened the damn gates for the Antifa False Flag brigade, and they knew what the plan was!

19 posted on 01/07/2021 12:26:33 PM PST by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“The 1954 United States Capitol shooting was an attack on March 1, 1954, by four Puerto Rican nationalists; they shot 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols from the Ladies’ Gallery (a balcony for visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber in the United States Capitol. They wanted to highlight their desire for Puerto Rican independence from US rule.”

They had bullet proof glass installed after this happened. We should have given them the independence they wanted. Would have been a lot cheaper for us.


20 posted on 01/07/2021 12:26:37 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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