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Hundreds of rioters destroyed property, set fires during Trump’s 2017 inauguration, and all charges were dropped
Biz Pac Review ^ | 01/15/2021 | Jon Dougherty

Posted on 01/16/2021 12:22:57 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

As the FBI continues to arrest dozens of people allegedly involved in the Capitol Building riot earlier this month ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, it was just four years ago when similar rioting took place throughout Washington, D.C., as newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump began his term.

Only then, instead of right-wing protesters, it was a riot dominated by supporters of anarchist groups like Antifa and left-wing organizations including Black Lives Matter.

Video footage that was taken the morning of Trump’s inaugural shows black-clad mobs occupying streets, smashing storefront windows, attacking police officers, overturning trash cans, and generally causing mayhem in protest of what they perceived as a stolen election.

Reports at the time noted that more than 214 people were indicted on felony rioting charges.

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To: SkyDancer
FBI has purchased adds on electronic billboards along the highways asking for information about the “Capitol Riot”. How come this was not done during the “peaceful protests” that occurred this summer. The double standard is sicking!

Also just heard ion the radio that all Federal Prisons are on lockdown till after the inauguration. What’s up with that?
21 posted on 01/16/2021 12:51:12 PM PST by RBW in PA
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To: lowbridge

That’s it, it was a “mostly peaceful” riot.


22 posted on 01/16/2021 12:52:21 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (I do not regret my decision to cut all ties with Fox News. )
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To: snarkytart
I was thinking about Rathergate and the George W Bush National Guard AWOL lie. Imagine if it happened now the bloggers who discover that the documents were fake would have all been kicked off Facebook. Twitter would have banned their tweets and banned their accounts for saying that the documents are fraudulent, the media would have been screaming “there’s no proof! baseless allegations!” it would have never went anywhere.

Not to mention the Swift Boaters, they learned their lesson and weren't going to allow that to happen ever again. And now that they've proven it works, next they will do the same to anyone who denies Climate Change.

23 posted on 01/16/2021 12:54:10 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kid Shelleen
President Trump's inauguration:

The sad thing is that the limo was owned by a middle eastern immigrant who had sunk his life savings into starting a limo business.

24 posted on 01/16/2021 1:01:31 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Stop The Steal)
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To: Eagles6
>>last 4 years have taught us that the Deep State does exist <<

The first Trump presidency will be know as the great uncloaking.
25 posted on 01/16/2021 1:01:32 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Eagles6

You forgot the FBI.


26 posted on 01/16/2021 1:02:40 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: snarkytart

We were able to communicate without social media during Bush era. Now in Biden Administration, we’ll have to do the same. If you haven’t done so already, deactivate your accounts on Facebook and Twitter. The Left can have their own echo chambers. They’ll eventually get bored with it lol.


27 posted on 01/16/2021 1:04:56 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: SkyDancer

They should have been shot by the ordinary people whose lives, persons or property they threatened.


28 posted on 01/16/2021 1:05:05 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Secret Agent Man

You noticed the other day wasn’t called mostly peaceful too?


29 posted on 01/16/2021 1:05:37 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Can we at least be fair, there was rioting and there were fires set in cities across the country, in some cities the local city management decided to in my opinion encourage this behavior.

However when these people started messing with federal buildings they got arrested, and prosecuted. One or two mayors had got upset cause the federal govt was protecting its property.

I do not see much difference in the treatment.

p.s.

I was waiting in line to get into a federal building and some sandwich delivery guy with the shirt and everything had 2 big bags of sandwiches he goes up to security and says lunch for Karen in c-312 they go sure thing, can we see your id, they scanned it and immediately cuffed him up cause he had a warrant..


30 posted on 01/16/2021 1:06:58 PM PST by algore
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To: Kid Shelleen

Petition to impeach Joe Biden!

https://conservativechange.com/petition/impeach-joe-biden/


31 posted on 01/16/2021 1:07:35 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC and America on election/coup/night, Tues., Nov. 03, 2020!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Sickening


32 posted on 01/16/2021 1:09:47 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta ( )
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To: lowbridge
Impeach Them All
33 posted on 01/16/2021 1:12:18 PM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

We live in a corrupt nation now and probably have for some time. I don’t think many of us realized or accepted that until now. TRUMP being elected was an aberration, and it won’t happen again. The firewalls for that will be finalized in the next couple years.


34 posted on 01/16/2021 1:25:41 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: realcleanguy

Strangely, you are more accurate than not. But I know plenty of people from the late 60s on, who still managed not to see the real identities of these rogues and traitors who call themselves “Liberals” but who are in fact Treacherous underminers of American sovereignty. It was irresistible to them,from the beginning, this impulse to jump aboard the Hate-Trump Train. Reconstituted their old community of interests, and made ‘em feel righteous once again. I think the “Liberals/Hippies” you described were even then in the minority.”Living off the land” etc, were ideals that took a lot more long-haul commitment than most Hippies would be able to sustain.
The people now in their 70s still manage to sit, even if a little uncomfortably ,squarely within the current Dem Party and all its transgressions, all its deceit, and all of what should now be recognized as historical inner contradictions (for example, people on the Left are now pro-War, since Trump showed himself to be effectively anti-War. This “uneasy in my easy chair” posture many of them are provisionally feeling may fade fast in the first year of Biden/Harris, as it already looks like they’re having no probl
em putting the Cancel Culture on mega-steroids. Also the Dems/MSM have given a shot in the arm to their designs by managing to brand the Capital Bldg. event as strictly caused by Trump supporters, who then can be branded as “domestic terrorists”. The success of this branding opens up a lot of opportunities for oppression by them. Against us.And all of the proceeding was “Just for openers”.


35 posted on 01/16/2021 1:27:56 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: Rurudyne

In a town close by me a bunch of Antifa people showed up and met armed citizens patrolling the street protecting businesses - they ran away.


36 posted on 01/16/2021 1:28:48 PM PST by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: realcleanguy

On top of that this writer’s second paragraph keeps promulgating the myth that Jan 6 was all Trump supporters, hence making it easier to play into the hands of the Dems, when in fact it was instigated and effectively LED by the same people who did it all summer across America, and also at Trump’s first inauguration. Same people, and they announced publicly they were gonna do it.


37 posted on 01/16/2021 1:32:29 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: Kid Shelleen

Speaking of the fbi!

https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/26/if-the-fbis-contempt-for-the-law-is-not-reined-in-its-abuses-will-get-worse/

CORRUPTION
If The FBI’s Contempt For The Law Is Not Reined In, Its Abuses Will Get Worse
The former CIA and FBI director’s article is a symptom of how the establishment media has become the propaganda arm of an increasingly robust U.S. authoritarian movement.


38 posted on 01/16/2021 1:39:02 PM PST by pilgrim
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To: Rurudyne

yup


39 posted on 01/16/2021 1:41:36 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

More than 200 protesters indicted on rioting charges from Inauguration Day

By Madison Park, CNN

Updated 2:25 AM EST, Wed February 22, 2017

https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/22/politics/trump-inauguration-protesters-indictment/index.html


40 posted on 01/16/2021 1:56:46 PM PST by McGruff (Remain calm, stay in your homes and wear a mask.)
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