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Wow that was overwhelming. I'm guessing this will get a Pulitzer. I guess we already knew a lot of it, it's just good to see it organized, with pictures, and sound bytes. Some organizers need to start going to jail or Garland needs to resign.
Anonymous wrote:For those who can’t read the “Before” part of the WaPo expose (and all three parts are quite long), this is a good short thread about it, though I disagree with this guy’s conclusion that it was a failure of imagination. I think that there were GOP agents in the government who were flat out working to make the coup succeed.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/
I’ve just gotten to the Donell Harvin part. It’s horrifying. It’s not like it wasn’t clear that day that it was horrifying, but seeing so much more evidence laid out… I don’t get it. Have so many Republican extremists infiltrated all those agencies? Was it just Trump appointees at the top that choked an appropriate response? Or are those agencies that incompetent?
Even in this piece, they’re focused on the GOP’s take on it. Why not ask any of the Democratic lawmakers who were at risk that day?
DP still working my way through this article. It’s amazing that after all this time even Trump’s own staff STILL didn’t take him literally or seriously.
“Still, many White House and campaign aides did not view Jan. 6 as a critical day and were not worried about violence. The goal of Trump’s tweet in which he said Jan. 6 would “be wild,” they believed, was simply to attract a big crowd to give the television cameras a counternarrative to the coverage of the Capitol that day.
One senior administration official said he only realized how much Trump’s focus on Jan. 6 was activating his supporters when his mother, who lives in a Southern state, told him in late December that her friends were coming by bus. “A lot of people from the church are going to D.C. on January 6 — are you going to be there?” she asked him.”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This expose is![]()
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/
I’ve just gotten to the Donell Harvin part. It’s horrifying. It’s not like it wasn’t clear that day that it was horrifying, but seeing so much more evidence laid out… I don’t get it. Have so many Republican extremists infiltrated all those agencies? Was it just Trump appointees at the top that choked an appropriate response? Or are those agencies that incompetent?
Even in this piece, they’re focused on the GOP’s take on it. Why not ask any of the Democratic lawmakers who were at risk that day?
Anonymous wrote:Crickets from the right on that Washington Post piece.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/