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Dejected Trump supporters leave Washington, create new theories for Capitol violence
NBC News / Comcast ^ | January 7, 2021 | By Phil McCausland

Posted on 01/08/2021 5:26:49 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

A Trump supporter cried in the lobby of the Capitol Hill Hotel on Thursday as she poured herself a cup of coffee and told her friend that her son had disowned her for joining in Wednesday's chaos at the U.S. Capitol. But minutes later, when the driver of a car yelled at a group of haggard Trump supporters to "get the f--- out of our city," she joined a chorus of others to respond with their own expletives.

While supporters of President Donald Trump checked out of their hotels in Washington on Thursday morning, sharing feelings of sadness, anger, defensiveness and paranoia with one another, residents of the nation's capital said they were glad to see them leave after a day of terror.

"As a brown person, I wasn't allowed to go out," said a man who lives near Capitol Hill, who asked to remain anonymous because he is a government employee. "I watched it on television. It's really unbelievable that something like that could happen. When the BLM protests were going on, we saw so much more police presence. I don't know or understand what happened yesterday."

Trump supporters did not have many answers, either, although they provided numerous conspiracy theories.

As many of Trump's fiercest partisans packed their cars or ordered rides to the airport, they talked about their experiences and developed fresh ideas about potential cabals aimed at undermining them. They appeared to make many leaps about how a protest in support of Trump in the early afternoon became a full-blown riot within the chambers of Congress by the time the sun set over the Potomac River.

Some claimed that their protest had been infiltrated by the network of loosely organized radical groups called "antifa," although there is no evidence.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2020; journalism; media; press
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1 posted on 01/08/2021 5:26:49 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-fight-against-austerity-started-here/

REMEMBER WHEN STORMING A CAPITAL WAS OK? 2011 WISCONSIN


2 posted on 01/08/2021 5:28:44 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

History is written by the winners.


3 posted on 01/08/2021 5:30:02 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: americas.best.days...

All those bastard mediavomits are in for a rude awakening once the water subside!


4 posted on 01/08/2021 5:31:02 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...Some claimed that their protest had been infiltrated by the network of loosely organized radical groups called “antifa,” although there is no evidence....”
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Sure, NBC, we believe you. You wouldn’t lie. There’s absolutely zero evidence. /sarc


5 posted on 01/08/2021 5:33:23 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The author’s archive includes “Democrats gear up to fight gerrymandering after state House losses”, “Judge orders further sweeps of Postal Service facilities for undelivered ballots”, and “Biden’s win would give Democrats 4 years of power. State legislatures could give them 10”. No bias here, eh?


6 posted on 01/08/2021 5:33:54 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
How about this "theory?"


7 posted on 01/08/2021 5:35:19 AM PST by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They can’t help themselves. Good. Keep it up Nothin But Commies. If you think you’re making points your digging a deeper grave for yourselves.


8 posted on 01/08/2021 5:38:23 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“As a brown person, I wasn’t allowed to go out,”

White people weren’t allowed to go out either as they were kept in hotel rooms.


9 posted on 01/08/2021 5:40:06 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
When the BLM protests were going on, we saw so much more police presence.

Just an outright falsehood. They were allowed to riot, loot, burn, vandalize and pillage for months on end this past sumer, and cried about "police brutality" when one of them got a face full of mace for stealing.

Meanwhile, a woman was shut dead on January 6.

I am out of patience for the mainstream media's bullcrap at this point, and I know this was a quote, but it's a quote that came about because of the media's reporting.

10 posted on 01/08/2021 5:41:55 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Some claimed that their protest had been infiltrated by the network of loosely organized radical groups called “antifa,” although there is no evidence.”


but as the media has told us- all that violence in places like Portland and Seattle were started by “right wing” groups...


11 posted on 01/08/2021 5:46:32 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“When the BLM protests were going on, we saw so much more police presence. I don’t know or understand what happened yesterday.”

what you don’t understand is the Trump administration offered to send in the national guard but the Capitol police refused...


12 posted on 01/08/2021 5:49:54 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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“her son had disowned her for joining in Wednesday’s chaos”

My Dad disowned me several months ago. At 40 years old, how dare I have my own opinions!!!!! LOL, welcome to the club lady.


13 posted on 01/08/2021 5:52:12 AM PST by Durbin
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Bomb explodes in Capitol building

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bomb-explodes-in-capitol-building

How many Weather Underground has been welcomed with open arms into the Media-Dem Party. 0bama started his political career with the endorsement of Bill Ayers who bragged about being “guilty as Hell, but free as a bird”.

https://georgetowner.com/articles/2018/10/08/angry-anti-kavanaugh-protesters-storm-capitol-hill-photos/


14 posted on 01/08/2021 5:57:47 AM PST by euram
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It seems that Media-Dem Party outrage at political violence is rather self-serving, don’t ya think?

1954 Shooting in the House Chamber

https://history.house.gov/Oral-History/Events/1954-Shooting/

Figueroa Cordero was released in 1978. One year later, in 1979, President Jimmy Carter commuted the sentences of the remaining Nationalists. The Nationalists were received in Puerto Rico with a heroes’ welcome from roughly 5,000 people at San Juan International Airport.[


15 posted on 01/08/2021 6:06:53 AM PST by euram
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Question- Can we claim that Antifa inflitrated and instigated, but still claim that the people killed/injured or photographed inside were/are ‘patriots’.

Do we get it both ways in that Antifa is to blame for the violence and actual breaching, but that the actions of some were patriotic?

I ask because I have been condemned for being consistent; I think a full measure of force should have been used on the scum who destroyed cities in 2020, but also on anyone disrupting on the 6th.

I don’t like protestors, period, regardless of even if they are protesting for something I agree with, but I’d probably have been a Loyalist right up to the second of the signing of the Declaration, admittedly.


16 posted on 01/08/2021 6:23:45 AM PST by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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I had to laugh when Jimmy Carter commented on this because he was the one who ordered the release of the. Puerto Rican terrorists who shot up the Capitol in 1954, and the lefties gave them a heroes welcome.

And I note the media hasn’t even mentioned that attack so they can forward the narrative that this kind of thing is unprecedented.


17 posted on 01/08/2021 6:29:20 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: euram

Didn’t see your post.

I would add one more little tidbit, one of the first things the terrorists did when they left prison was to fly to New York to go to the UN and gave a news conference there. Unbelievable!

Again another inconvenient fact the media doesn’t point out.


18 posted on 01/08/2021 6:33:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
While supporters of President Donald Trump checked out of their hotels in Washington on Thursday morning, sharing feelings of sadness, anger, defensiveness and paranoia with one another, residents of the nation's capital said they were glad to see them leave after a day of terror.

Just another negative hit piece by the MSM.

The issue being avoided by the MSM is election integrity. What needs to be done was outlined in Trump's speech.

If alleged election irregularities are not addressed and properly fixed, our country is over.

19 posted on 01/08/2021 7:03:53 AM PST by olezip
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The Left will continue to marginalize and denigrate the Right, while removing their ability to even voice an objection or alternate opinion. Great way to create a pressure cooker situation by backing people into a corner.


20 posted on 01/08/2021 7:08:58 AM PST by Flick Lives
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