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The nadir of Donald Trump’s presidency occurred at 4.17 p.m. EST on Wednesday, hours after a pro-Trump mob had stormed the American Capitol. Four hours earlier, Trump had addressed a “Stop the Steal” rally at the Ellipse in Washington. Thousands of Trump supporters had convened to protest the alleged rigging of the presidential election and to demand that the Senate and House not certify the results that would put Joe Biden in the White House on January 20. Speaking to the Stop the Steal crowd, Trump repeated his usual claim of widespread election fraud, with a particular emphasis on Georgia....

Capitol police appeared to let a mass of Trump demonstrators right into the Capitol building at one entry point Wednesday after the crowd breached the perimeter surrounding the complex.

A printing company in Maryland saw the photo on Twitter Wednesday night: an employee roaming the halls of the U.S. Capitol with a company badge around his neck. He was fired the next day. Others are facing similar repercussions at work for their participation in Wednesday’s riot at the U.S. Capitol. Some business owners are being trashed on social media and their establishments boycotted, while rank-and-file employees at other businesses have been fired. The printing company, Navistar Direct Marketing, declined to name the worker but said it can’t offer employment to people “demonstrating dangerous conduct that endangers the health and...

President Trump is not considering resigning from office before Inauguration Day, according to two senior administration sources.... a senior administration official said there had been no discussion of resignation and there was no chance that Trump would cut his term short. “Zero,” he said.

Trump spoke for about 70 minutes at the Ellipse across the street from the south lawn of the White House, beginning at about noon, eastern time. His speech ended at about 1:10 p.m. The protesters began at about 1:10 p.m., pulling down barricades near the west side of the Capitol. Given the distance and the density of the crowd, how much time would it have taken somebody to go from where they could hear Trump's speech to the place where the barricades were first pulled down or another part of the Capitol was entered? I estimate that it was at...

4. The riot ended Trump’s presidency. Although the Congressional session was widely described in the press as the “confirmation vote” for Joe Biden’s election victory, it was actually rather more than that. VP Mike Pence was chairing a joint-session which intended to allow full speeches from those opposing the election and maintaining there had been fraud. The violence brought this session to an end prematurely, totally undermined Trump’s legal and procedural challenges and killed any chance he had of overturning the electoral college vote. No sooner was the “attack” over, than many of the Republicans in both houses who were...

Richard Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Arkansas was arrested today in Bentonville, Arkansas on multiple criminal charges related to his alleged unlawful activities earlier this week at the U.S. Capitol Building where he was photographed with his feet up on a desk in the Speaker of the House of Representatives’ office.Barnett is scheduled to make his initial appearance in federal court on Tuesday. He will ultimately be extradited to Washington, D.C.“The shocking images of Mr. Barnett with his boots up on a desk in the Speaker of the House’s office on Wednesday was repulsive,” said Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General...

President Trump is being accused of inciting people to break into the Capitol Building during his speech at the rally just before the Congress was going to open the electoral votes. If you find any such incitement in his speech, please send me the time in this video www.c-span.org/video/?507744-1/rally-electoral-college-vote-certification at which this occurred. I can't find it. Go to 2:19:10 - 2:24:50 for Rudy Guilliani. Go to 2:24:50 - 2:27:30 for Prof. John Eastman. Go to 3:31:20 - 4:42:45 for President Trump -- at 3:47:40 Trump says: "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol...

One of the five people killed in the DC riots was a pro-Trump protester who was trampled to death, according to her friend. Rosanne Boyland, of Kennesaw, Ga., died as the mob stormed the Capitol building, squaring off with police Wednesday. The friend she was with, Justin Winchell, recalled her final moments as protesters began falling over one another. “I put my arm underneath her and was pulling her out and then another guy fell on top of her, and another guy was just walking [on top of her],” Winchell told CBS46. “There were people stacked two, three deep …...

Driving into DCTuesday morning January 5, 2021 I was struck by a couple things as I drove into the DC Metro Area: 1. The wealth, and 2. Residents dutifully wearing masks and staying six feet apart.After briefly stopping at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, I noticed our founding forefather’s estate seemed modest in comparison to many suburban DC homes. Regarding masks, everyone in DC proper seemed to be wearing masks and keeping their six foot distance like obedient subjects of a dictitorial King…that is, until a millon or so Trump supporters arrived.Who were these Trump supporters? Most of them 50+ year...

The professional fallout came quickly Thursday for a few Chicagoans who attended the “Stop the Steal” rally in the nation’s capital that later devolved into chaos and violence. A city real estate agent was publicly fired after she posted to social media about attending the event. After workers at a tattoo shop posted about attending the rally, the shop was savaged on social media and was hit with graffiti accusing the store of employing “Nazis.” A Vietnamese restaurant, whose owners reportedly also attended the rally, was overwhelmed with negative online reviews.

The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security has called for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the FBI to ban those involved in Wednesday's insurrection that breached the U.S. Capitol building from flying on airplanes... ..."This should include all individuals identified as having entered the Capitol building—an intrusion which threatened the safety of Members of Congress and staff and served as an attack on our Nation."

The president of Chicago’s police union came to the defense of the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol Wednesday, arguing that referring to the the demonstrators as “treasonous” is “beyond ridiculous and ignorant.” In a phone interview Wednesday evening with Chicago public radio station WBEZ, John Catanzara, who leads the city’s Fraternal Order of Police, claimed that the riots, which led to four deaths and many more injuries, was the result of “a bunch of pissed-off people that feel an election was stolen, somehow, some way.” “There was no arson, there was no burning of anything, there was no looting,...

Linked is my video of a portion of the hundreds of thousands of America-loving Patriots moving from the Whitehouse to the Capitol on 1/6/2021. They are not a violent mob! I recorded for about an hour from this one location on Constitution Ave near 15th NW. This is shown at double speed. As you can see from the video, my shirt caught some attention. It said: "God is on His throne. Jesus is Lord!"

I want to get this down while it is still fresh in my mind so no responses tonight. I'll answer any questions, as I can, tomorrow. People need to hear what happened to keep abreast of the media narrative that is being formulated. Drove into D. C. and got into town around 4:30 PM. Since I have never been to DC I did the usual tourist thing of walking around and taking pictures of various historical monuments. I even scouted out the are around the National Christmas Tree where the main event was supposed to take place. I waved at...

The police officer who shot Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt dead has been suspended and the incident is currently under investigation. Babbitt was shot in the neck at almost point blank range during yesterday’s chaos in DC during the storming of the Capitol building. Footage of the shocking incident clearly shows that non-lethal measures could have been used against Babbitt, who served her country during a 14 year stint in the Air Force. The officer who shot Babbitt, who was wearing a suit and positioned inside the Senate chamber when he opened fire, has now been suspended pending an investigation. US...

The Daily Mail reports that the FBI already has a list of the ‘MAGA Most Wanted”Daily Mail reported today’s list from the FBI of their most wanted who waltzed into the Capitol Building yesterday:Hunt for MAGA’s most wanted: FBI releases pictures of Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol https://t.co/eWfvnYOJNr pic.twitter.com/zbxAnUJJ3Q— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) January 7, 2021In addition to the list above, the Justice Department has not discarded President Trump’s role in events yesterday at the Capitol:Federal prosecutors have announced President Trump could potentially face charges over his role in inciting the violent siege of the US Capitol after he...

If Trump was declared victor, the entire country would be in flames by now with. DC was a police state on November 3rd with stores boarded up and a huge fence fortifying the White House. It was expected that tens of thousands of ANTIFA would storm the White House if Trump was re-elected and burn it to the ground. This is what everyone was preparing for. So for the Democrats and media to be outraged by the riot is unbelievable hypocrisy. If Trump was declared victor, every large city in America would have been burning. And Nancy and Chuck would...

I began my day around 8 a.m. at the rally/protest between the Washington Monument and the Ellipse, in a sea of flags and people. The crowd most definitely looked like America, and I was struck by how incredibly many women were there. There were also black faces and absolutely scores of Asians. Judging from their signs and flags a large number of these were Chinese and Vietnamese Americans, who have a much fresher and more personal impression of communism than the rest of us. At least one other account I have read describes a feeling of menace in the air....

Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said he witnessed the moment a police officer shot a woman inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and insisted the officer had no other choice. A pro-Trump mob of rioters rammed their way into the Capitol Wednesday as Congress held a joint session to certify the election results, sending lawmakers into hiding. Video shows a group attempting to force itself into the House chamber, where lawmakers were present. As protesters were breaking glass on the doors that kept them out to force their way through, a law enforcement officer fired a shot. One woman, Ashli Babbitt,...