Posted on 12/23/2022 1:56:17 PM PST by Dahoser
At least 28,000 supporters of President Donald Trump flocked to the nation’s capital on Jan. 6, 2021 — many of them carrying weaponry ranging from firearms to brass knuckles to screwdrivers, the House select committee investigating the events of that day revealed in its final report.
The 814-page document, released late Thursday, draws the previously unreported crowd figure from data from Secret Service magnetometers stationed at Trump’s pre-riot speech on the Ellipse near the White House — though hundreds of the most hardcore rioters skipped the rally and went directly to the Capitol.
The committee of seven Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans voted Monday to ask the Justice Department to charge the 76-year-old former president with crimes including inciting an insurrection — and the report suggests many attendees were indeed ready for violence.
Secret Service confiscated a haul of weapons from the 28,000 spectators who did pass through the magnetometers: 242 cannisters of pepper spray, 269 knives or blades, 18 brass knuckles, 18 tasers, 6 pieces of body armor, 3 gas masks, 30 batons or blunt instruments, and 17 miscellaneous items like scissors, needles, or screwdrivers,” the report says.
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And FBI with red hats on.
They and antifa thought their ringleader Pelosi would protect them.
Bur she wouldn’t have.
The FBI Insurrectionists, yeah.
She protected the USCP cop who murdered Ashli Babbitt.
And not one shot fired. Funny, that
The “New Math” is back. Stupid, stupid, stupid, and that is just the government people involved.
One good Antifa insurrection in Seattle or Portland had more weapons and terrorists in them, plus the weapons of Molotov cocktails, bottle rockets, stones, body armor and pointed umbrellas, stones, bottles, wood,etc
Our law enforcement agencies under Obama/Biden control are now illegally politicized beyond belief and I come from a
law enforcement family. We have been betrayed as has America.
If someone were in possesion of a gas mask, they wouldn’t even make it to the ‘magnetometer’.
And yet only Ashli Babbit was killed, gunned down by a racist capital policeman in cold blood.
Terrorist! /s
This is so absurd.
“I feel your pain, I had them take a nice folding knife off me in Amsterdam.”
From one of my favorite movies, “Spartan”, written and directed by David Mamet, and starring Val Kilmer as “Scott”:
Grace : Nice knife.
Scott : Yeah. Got it off an East German fella.
Grace : He give it to ya for a gift?
Scott : No. As I recall, he was... rather reluctant to part with it.
I got a nice knife for Christmas yesterday, btw.
👍👍👍
if they were, and were organized, DJT would be still President, and a lot of these POS congress critters would have been lynched.
26 million organized people coulda wiped the FIB out too.
Yet everyone is still alive and well
That’s not armed, it’s tools and emergency items.
IF They were really Armed there would have been personally owned 6x6 vehicles with green cammo and mounted weapons, etc.
“Why would body armor or pepper spray be confiscated?”
The body armor was confiscated to make it easier for the crapital police thugs to murder peaceful protestors.
ANTIFA and BLM were no where to be found. Same as all the other riots in major cities to overthrow the government for black superiority prior to Jan6th, those ANTIFA/BLM perps could not be found, the FBI is still (NOT) looking for them but the Jan 6 "perps" connected to Trump were easy to round up.
Fake news
26,000 “armed, pissed off” people and not a single shot fired.
Sure, Jan.
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