This is silly stuff, that taking 3 hours to act somehow makes you complicit in events.
He might as well say 3 minutes. Three hours for a president to figure out what to do is hardly a crime.
It’s like on 911 the democrats said Bush was a coward because the secret service didn’t return him to Washington for several hours.
He issued 2 tweets during this 3 hours for the protestors to stand down. Sine the SS wouldn’t let him personally address the crowd what else could he do?
I disagree. Trump should have made a statement right away when things went south. He was the President, he had a duty to say something to make an attempt to tell his supporters not to enter the capital, not to go there, period. I saw it happening and I was like where is the President and his statement. His own people were telling him to make a statement. He refused. He sat and watched on TV instead. The longer it went on, the worse it got for his supporters. Woman was beaten in a tunnel during those 3 hours of silence by capital police. People are paying high price now for those 3 hours of silence. Had he taken a few minutes to tell his supporters not to go there, he might have saved them from being jailed, arrested, raided, harassed, pursued, by the deep state.
His statement could have been I had ordered 10K national guard troops to protect the capital. It was denied by both Sgt of Arms of Capital and Pelosi. Pelosi has sole responsibility for the protection of Congress members at the Capital. Do not go to the capital, do not enter the Capital.
“This is silly stuff, that taking 3 hours to act somehow makes you complicit in events.”
Roll the clock back. Remember Benghazi. Obama and Hillary were “unavailable” to authorize a military raid to save the ambassador and others? By the standard Cobb is proclaiming weren’t Obama and Hillary complicit in the Benghazi deaths?