Posted on 01/06/2021 11:29:18 AM PST by Red Badger
Hundreds of Trump supporters breached security barricades and stormed up to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., as both chambers of Congress convened to affirm the Electoral College votes cast in the 2020 election Wednesday afternoon.
Thousands had traveled from out of state to gather in Washington in protest of the election, which President Trump and his allies have maintained was fraudulent.
Things appeared to carry on peacefully earlier in the day, but as the joint session of Congress kicked off in the early afternoon, a large group of individuals appeared to storm through outer barricades surrounding the Capitol building, where lawmakers deliberated inside.
Video posted to Twitter by Washington Post reporter Rebecca Tan showed Trump supporters approaching the rear of the building.
Hundreds of Trump supporters have stormed the barricades at the back of the Capitol and are marching toward the bui… https://t.co/3VEdyaOR4r — Rebecca Tan (@Rebecca Tan)1609956048.0
Then, BlazeTV reporter Elijah Schaeffer posted video as the group reached the outside of the building and were confronted by police.
"Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are attempting to occupy the building — fighting federal police who are overrun," he tweeted. "This is the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can't stop them."
(Content Warning: Video contains vulgar language)
BREAKING: Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are at… https://t.co/ldYHmHplxV — ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ELIJAH SCHAFFER)1609956659.0
More video from the scene posted on social media showed a large group of individuals continuing to wrestle with law enforcement outside the U.S. Capitol.
Trump supporters got into fights with the Capitol Police after they tried to enter the Capitol Building. https://t.co/ZQjn3fOVtL — Julio Rosas (@Julio Rosas)1609959009.0
Politico's Melanie Zanona reported that the Madison building on Capitol Hill was evacuated as a result of the increasingly hostile protests.
DEVELOPING: The Madison building on Capitol Hill is being evacuated, sources tell me & @sarahnferris — Melanie Zanona (@Melanie Zanona)1609956961.0
It is unclear at this point whether the storming of the Capitol was a coordinated or impromptu event. Interestingly, a paper notice found in the National Mall indicated that "a national militia" was being organized to "defend the Constitution and the Republic." However, there is no evidence connecting the movement from the crowd with the notice.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Several people at Fox News have been saying the same BS.
If Capitol security deliberately allowed provocateurs to enter the Capitol complex in order to create some sympathy for Congress...
That woman’s blood is on their hands.
that looks like it felt good
It isn’t bull.
Those doors were left unsecured.
Why
No, not sympathy...
To give Congress cover in order to conduct their vote off site and/ or in secret...?
I definitely do try to stay alert. Especially these days.
Interesting times.
That’s what I thought of too they were everywhere.
Looks like the shooting is an overreaction but we will see.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/national-guard-capitol-army.html
Defense and administration officials said it was Vice President Mike Pence, not President Trump, who approved the order to deploy the D.C. National Guard. It was unclear why the president, who incited the protesters to storm the Capitol and who is still the commander in chief, did not give the order.
I don’t think the shooting was deliberate.
I do think the doors being left unsecured WAS a deliberate act that led to that woman’s shooting.
Thanks for that!
I figured most of the more serious stuff was being done by anarcho-communists like Antifa posing as rightwingers.
...so, has pence pulled a 25A move on trump now?
Joe Biden Reno.
What do you think its going to take to assure free and fair elections?
It’s ‘bull’ that the Capitol had never been breached before.
Communist groups in the 60s were all over its grounds, and even set a bomb off inside of it.
And also the fact that the communist-revolutionary, North Vietnam-supporting, Weather Underground openly admitted to bombing the US Capitol!
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In 1954, a group of Puerto Rican separatists got onto the House floor and opened fire with handguns. Five members of the House were wounded in the attack, including Rep. Alvin Bentley (Mich.). He's in the photo below, being carried out by pages.
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I am one Trump supporter fully willing to start a fight. You see, I live in Pennsylvania. Democrats and RINOs took away my right to vote thru fraud and corruption. I no longer can vote for representatives because my vote does not count. My vote has been negated by dead people, fabricated ballots, illegal aliens, and Democrats voting multiple times.
Our founding fathers fought a revolution of not having representation. I am willing to fight as well, because once Democrats and RINOs take full control of government institutions there is not a hope in hell that my vote ever counts again.
My soul is right with God. I am prepared to die for my children and grandchildren.
CBS “predominantly a while male crowd”
Honestly? A military coup.
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