Posted on 01/02/2022 9:24:09 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump “did nothing” to stop the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol as we came “perilously close to losing our democracy.”
Thompson said, “Let me say that what we have been able to ascertain is that we came perilously close to losing our democracy as we come to learn it. Had those insurrectionists been successful, we are not certain what we would have had, had it not been for the brave men and women who protected the Capitol in spite of being woefully outnumbered. We were in a difficult situation. We know former President Trump invited people to come to Washington on January 6, that he said it was going to be wild. We know that the speeches weaponized a lot of people by telling them that people at the Capitol were trying to steal the election from them and they should go and be heard. So we are now in the process of interviewing witnesses, collecting thousands of pages of documents to say who actually occurred. ”
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The Corporate USA has been bankrupted.
These people hear and repeat this nonsense so often I think they actually believe it.
The biggest threat to our democracy is not a bunch of rabble rousers descending on the Capitol Building.
If I remember correctly, evidence of voter fraud was to be discussed, so who would gain by stopping the hearings by any means necessary?
The whole thing is idiotic. This includes those that stormed the Capital. What did they think they were going to do when they reached the House floor?
Sustaining the Steal … how deep state Leftist scum roll.
Bennie Thompson talkin’ bout losin “our democracy”?
Would he be referring to the Republic of New Afrika, the black nationalist movement he headed up in the ‘60s?
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/republic-new-africa-1968/
Maybe that’s the democracy he be rappin bout.
Me, I think when there’s a massive coordinated criminal conspiracy to steal a Presidential election, THAT is “losin ouah mocracy”.
Trump did nothing WRONG.
And we DID lose our Constitutional Republic, Bennie.
....Thanks to scumbags like you and Pelosi. with a little assist by Pence.
EXACTLY!
I literally died when I first heard this
-PJ
We were going to lose our democracy to several hundred unorganized people who were carrying no guns. Okay.
Our democracy was lost when the election was stolen by the Deep State.
It s not my “democracy”, its theirs. I have no say in it. I am enslaved by it.
Missed it by that much.
The country is no where near the country that was founded or envisioned. People regularly go to the Supreme Court to ensure the federal government has additional enshrined rights with no sense of irony.
Democrats only believe in “democracy” when elections go their way.
Loosing our democracy AKA our control
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