Posted on 01/08/2021 7:07:46 AM PST by SJackson
Progressives' malicious power grab escalates to the wickedest heights.
A contingent of protestors invaded, vandalized and occupied portions of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th -- as the constitutional process of electoral college certification of the 2020 presidential election results was getting underway. The mob violence was an outright assault on the greatest constitutional republic in the world. But instead of making an effort to unite the country against such anarchy, the Left’s leaders and their friends in the establishment media are applying their usual double standard of “for thee, but not for me.” Not surprisingly, they are blaming President Trump for the Capitol unrest, falsely claiming he incited violence during his speech to supporters at Wednesday’s otherwise peaceful “Save America” rally.
President Trump and his supporters at the rally were simply exercising their First Amendment rights of free speech and peaceable assembly. The president’s refusal to concede an election marred by reports of widespread fraud which troubled many voters was not an incitement to violence, nor was his presentation of evidence of a stolen election.
President Trump told his supporters, “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women.” In so doing, he was clearly urging them merely to march peacefully and petition their government.
President Trump did NOT tell supporters to "storm the Capitol" or anything remotely similar. He was in no way responsible for the actions of a fringe breakaway group. Moreover, it remains a question as to who the rioters actually were. Indeed, there are credible reports of Antifa infiltration of the crowd.
President Trump made a video telling people to avoid violence and he urged calm on Twitter. Yet Twitter locked him out as if he were doing the opposite.
After recessing their electoral college certification proceedings for nearly six hours until the Capitol building was secured by a strengthened law enforcement contingent, the members of Congress reconvened to resume in a bipartisan show of support for constitutional order. The electoral college results were officially certified early Thursday morning.
In a tweet released in President Trump’s name (since Twitter had suspended his account), the president promised “an orderly transition on January 20” while at the same time continuing to “disagree with the outcome of the election.”
Nevertheless, the Trump-haters wasted no time blaming him for the Capitol violence. Joe Biden piled on against the president. So did the presumptive Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“What happened at the U.S. Capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the United States, incited by the president," Schumer said in a statement on Thursday. "This president should not hold office one day longer." He recklessly called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office, even after the president promised an orderly transition to Biden’s presidency.
“I join the Senate Democratic leader in calling on the vice president to remove this president by immediately invoking the 25th amendment,” Pelosi said. “If the Vice President and Cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment. That is the overwhelming sentiment of my caucus,” she added.
Precipitously removing the duly-elected president of the United States less than two weeks before the inauguration of his successor is anything but an orderly transition of power. It is yet another leftwing power play, exacting revenge on a president they hate by twisting the facts about the election and the Capitol occupation, censoring the president, and trying to kick him out of office before the end of his term to humiliate him.
Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went after Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley as well, insisting they “must resign” simply because they raised objections to state electors during the congressional electoral college proceedings.
The leftwing media also chimed in. For example, the front page of The New York Times on January 7th displayed the banner headline in all caps, “TRUMP INCITES MOB.” The Times’ editorial board claimed that “Mr. Trump’s seditious rhetoric prompted a mob of thousands of people to storm the U.S. Capitol building.” False.
CNN’s Don Lemon accused President Trump of being the leader of “a mob insurrection to destroy the Capitol and our democracy.” False.
In contrast, much of the establishment media downplayed, and in many cases excused, the months of violence last year perpetrated by leftwing radicals across the country. Such violence included repeated assaults on a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon. Members of the media called the leftwing riots "mostly peaceful protests" in the cause of "racial and social justice."
As FrontPage Magazine's own Daniel Greenfield pointed out in his January 7th article,
Violent protests, including those targeting public officials and legislative bodies, had been championed and normalized by Democrats and their media over the last four years. That included the harassment of officials, property destruction, and assaulting law enforcement. Now, as the Democrats expect to take power, they suddenly decided that rioting is bad.
Nobody who cares about preserving the rule of law in our constitutional republic applauds what happened at the Capitol on Wednesday. But progressive leaders and their allies in the mainstream media apply an entirely different standard when violence serves their purposes. And driven as they are by malice and hatred, they will surely find any way to justify violence against President Trump personally, his Republican supporters in Congress, and the more than 70 million voters who supported him in the 2020 election.
REJECT the whole premise that it was a “riot”
Had there been a real riot, the half MILLION Trump supporters would’ve FLATTENED DC.
All they got was a few dozen who pushed their way into the Capitol, ran around, broke a glass window til the shooting started.... - from THEIR SIDE.
Gee, it took the Marxist’s a whole day to accuse him. SHOCKED, I AM SHOCKED I TELL YOU!!! :-) Trump DID IT!!! Tried, convicted, sentenced, WITHOUT A TRIAL OR SHOWING OF ANY EVIDENCE!!! That WILL BECOME the way our side is treated from now on. GUILTY until PROVEN innocent. And you can bet your last ruble that there will be no proven innocence forthcoming folks. We are simply guilty of EVERYTHING they don’t like. Okay, I plead guilty of what you don’t like Comrade Pee-lousey. Now YOU, personally, and your fellow Marxist’s, Mr. Comrade Shoe-slimeball-mer. Come on down, the both of you.
I’m willing to categorize those couple dozen, maybe a couple hundred, a rioters, which shouldn’t apply to the non violent supporters. All summer we’ve been told Antifa and BLM riots, real riots with serious damage which will persist for years, that the rioters were peaceful protestors. I’m sure there were peaceful protesters in many occasions, before the violent took over. But the media and left wing bias is clear. Trump supporters are domestic terrorists based on the actions of a few, Antifa/BLM rioters are peaceful if you can find a peaceful protestor anywhere in the vicinity, before the sun goes down when “peaceful” dies. Clear bias, but bias which will have to be addressed. The left won’t let go of this.
Having heard the speech and read most of it after the incident, he didn’t incite it. Of course I speak english, not newspeak, and have no particular axe to grind. Disclosure regarding english, I do and will continue to use gender specific pronouns.
The left incited the “riot” by abusing hard working Americans for years.
Thanks for the article.
Honesty from in this partisan atmosphere is a rarity.
MAGA.
In his next speech, President Trump should say much of this.
If you read Shakespeare the events occurring today are readily understandable. Shakespeare understood human nature which dictates history. He had great insight into the motivation and needs of people. The upsurpers of the established order or the revolutionaries as they are called today, were people who plotted, used any means necessary including personal comprimise of values and conscience to depose the King and the established order. Often they were successful but had a gnawing sense of of illegitimacy. When you steal something, pyschologically you never own it. Often their fears of retribution would come to pass as others would ultimately revolt or seek justice even when it would appear that their positions were secure. IMHO this will ultimately happen to the vile Democrats who stole power, soiled the Democracy and deposed the king. Wouldn’t it be ironic that the son with the medeival name Barron rises up and avenges his father?
Shakespeare understood human nature. He exposed the nature of tyrants and explained these events to the people. That is why the Left so despises great classic writers and thinkers. They are censored and suppressed wherever the Left seizes power.
Have faith Freepers. This too shall pass.
The left? I’m reading the right doing it.
Inciting?
I think Trump was completely surprised by the antifa mob that stormed Congress.
“The mob violence was an outright assault on the greatest constitutional republic in the world.”
Wrong. It was the largest outpouring of grief for its threatened and likely demise. The Left has been waging underground and outright war against it for years. That war has been supported by the media, technoligarchs, globalists, extremists, and those who embrace the culture of death. Not just in the U.S. but worldwide.
Every word and action by the left is best described by one word propaganda they have the fever of hate for freedom.
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