“Then he INSISTS that there was no antifa”
I have seen him interviewed. He said that on the side of the Capitol where he was, they saw no Antifa. The Antifa thuggery was happening in another area which they couldn’t see — the opposite side of the building. As far as HE knew, there was no Antifa.
That is so, to an extent. I know that on the one side of the building there was very little antifa activity, and where it did go on, it was concentrated. They (antifa) embedded themselves ahead of time in with MAGA people who seemed to be more animated and upset, then sort of “took over” and encouraged action, egging MAGA people on as hard as they could.
I also watched it live streamed on some bloggers channel - he had five or six streams running. People on the ground stream to him. MAGA people walked within the velvet ropes, and exited the building when the fire alarms were turned on. Pretty different than painted to be. I watched as the doors were opened from inside - the doors were not busted open. MAGA people were actually pretty content to hang out on the outside of the Capital.