President Trump was still giving his speech when they entered the Capitol. He didn’t even know what was going on down the road. It’s not his fault Pelosi refused his offer of National Guard troops that day. At this point, after all that has happened, I wouldn’t be surprised if Pence was in on it.
Nor would I. It was a set up from the gitgo. The Trump supporters walked into a buffalo jump and they were the buffalo.
Why isn’t the DC mayor held to account. She didn’t follow past president for crowds even the RNC event had more road closures. The DC crowd control on the 6th was to be blamed but all went as planned and Nancy got voted in again as planned.
If I recall the chain of command re the calling in of the DC National Guard, it would come from the White House, perhaps the Capitol Police/DC Police Dept. to the Mayor (incompetent Muriel Bowwow Bowser). Then the NG would be under her command and a possible co-command with the federal police agencies.
Remember, as one FReeper wrote, Trump was up Pennsylvania Ave giving a speech so he was out of the communications loop for a while.
Perhaps Pence had the power to ask for National Guard troops from DC or even surrounding areas, or Military Police (of which there are a lot in military facilities in the immediate area (as in down the street from me).
It seems that the Capitol Police were caught off-guard and didn’t have one central commander taking over protective operations for the whole building (Capitol/Congress).
The problem was that there were NOT ENOUGH on-site police of any jurisdiction to take down the real troublemakers before they could mingle with the non-violent protestors and that’s how things went to hell.
No FBI, yet they were right down the street at 9th & Penn. NW. Other Capitol Police in the various House and Senate buildings who could have been detailed immediately to the nearby Capitol. Didn’t happen that I know of (after they shut down their own buildings and left a skeleton crew on duty inside them).
Arlington PD right across the river as was the Alexandria PD. Did the Dept. of Homeland Security have officers available to help? Never heard any mention of them being called. The same for the Old Guard contingent at Arlington National Cemetery. How about members of the Federal Protective Service units guarding federal buildings? (My son was a member of one such emergency response team when he was a federal police officer).
U.S, Marshalls called? Among the best police officers around.
The Left’s war on law enforcement, aided and abetted by Pelosi/Schumer/ the Marxist Black Congressional Caucus and its twin Marxist group, the Democratic Progressive Caucus, and other far-left groups including the criminal Marxist organization BLM, all took a great toll on law enforcement agencies to respond to an emergency such as happened at the Capitol.
If you don’t know the players, you don’t know how the game is played. In DC, incompetence and paralysis were the results of the Dems/Left continual attacks on America’s law enforcement agencies, programs and systems.
I’ve seen this before but no one wanted to listen to those of us who understood what was going on by both the communist Left/racist left and by a few dangerous Far- Right extremists who pissed in the pot and spoiled the image of lawful, peaceful conservative protesters for a long time to come.
Now with a leftist led and crippled DHS (Mayorkas is incompetent to say the least), and an asskissing DOD more concerned with and imaginary right wing white supremacist threat to America, we can expect more authoritarian laws from the best friends the communists ever had, the Democrat Party and its toadies, black con-artist movements, braindead liberals and a president who doesn’t even know where he is.
Cheer up. Tax Day has been moved back a month, if we last that long. Russia is on the move; Red China is on the move; Turkey is on the move; Iran is on the move; ISIS is on the move; and No. Korea is on the move.
As Kevin Bacon said in the movie “Animal House” during a stampede of panicked citizens, “Don’t Panic. All is well”!
Pence in on it? funny you might think that...so do some others.
https://www.neonrevolt.com/2021/01/06/at-the-highest-levels-part-1-of-3/
follow the link to all three...they’re each a short easy read...