As the joint session of Congress stutters towards certifying Biden as president, hundreds of Trump brownshirts are assaulting the Capitol Building.
Is this what Giuliani meant by “trial by combat?”
This is a developing story.
Washington Post reporter Rebecca Tan says on Twitter that the terrorists stormed barricades at the rear of the Capitol and are attempting to charge up the Capitol steps, presumably to break into the Capitol Building itself. The DC police are trying to keep them out of the building.
Hundreds of Trump supporters have stormed the barricades at the back of the Capitol and are marching toward the building. pic.twitter.com/68nB7QyiP9
— Rebecca Tan (@rebtanhs) January 6, 2021
Protesters are charging toward the Captiol steps. Some tried to scale the construction structures and have been tackled by police. They want to enter the building and are making attempts at intervals. Capitol police trying to hold them back. pic.twitter.com/YflxS1miBw
— Rebecca Tan (@rebtanhs) January 6, 2021
Protesters are charging toward the Captiol steps. Some tried to scale the construction structures and have been tackled by police. They want to enter the building and are making attempts at intervals. Capitol police trying to hold them back. pic.twitter.com/YflxS1miBw
— Rebecca Tan (@rebtanhs) January 6, 2021
Blaze reporter Elijah Schaffer seems appalled by the assault on Congress his own followers are attempting. He says he saw the rioters tearing down layers of security fencing and are attempting to “occupy” the building, “fighting federal police who are overrun.”
This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can’t stop them.
BREAKING: 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
This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can’t stop them pic.twitter.com/VVdTUwV5YN
— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) January 6, 2021
From what I’m seeing, Elijah’s a little overwrought. There are hundreds, not thousands, and so far the police are containing the thugs. Gee, you’d think widdle Ewijah would be out there with them.
Huffington Post reporter Philip Lewis posts:
Whoa: Trump supporters going at it with the police on the steps of the Capitol as Congress counts the Electoral College ballots inside pic.twitter.com/LiQhaa5KkQ
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 6, 2021
This is WILD.
This is WILD pic.twitter.com/dC8whGzIgw
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 6, 2021
The Capitol Police have ordered staff members to evacuate the Cannon and Madison Office Buildings.
Wow: Capitol Police have told staff to evacuate the Cannon House Office Building https://t.co/llCXWG6ARk
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 6, 2021
.@mkraju and @Phil_Mattingly report the Cannon and Madison congressional office buildings are being evacuated
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 6, 2021
Sarah Cooper sums it up:
[H]e’s telling his supporters to violently take over the government, and we can’t impeach him, we never even censured him. [W]e have him on tape committing a crime and he’s going to just walk around inciting violence for as long as he wants? [H]e needs to be removed and arrested.
he's telling his supporters to violently take over the government, and we can't impeach him, we never even censured him. we have him on tape committing a crime and he's going to just walk around inciting violence for as long as he wants? he needs to be removed and arrested
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) January 6, 2021
From what I understand of the earlier reporting, Trump wanted to lead this “army” of corpulent Nazi wannabes in their assault on Congress.
We’ll see if the DC and Capitol Police treat these goons with the same savagery as the Portland Police treated the peaceful BLM protesters after the George Floyd murder.
More to follow.
Nailed it. Trump brown shirts. Does this piss anyone else off that 45 has incited this? Tomorrow – impeach for so many things!!!
Impeach and don’t forget arrest.
Did any of these numbskulls have the good sense to cover their face? If not, finding them later should be very easy.
The Capitol is being evacuated.
MSNBC is reporting that at least a few of the terrorists are in the Capitol itself.
They are terrorists, aren’t they?
But they’re RWNJ terrorists so they’re unlikely to be called that by corporate media.
Isn’t it weird that the left is so often described as ‘radical’ but they’re not the ones carrying around assault rifles, denying science, denying a democratic election and storming Congress?
When will these people be called what they are by the general media?
If not now, when?
There is another word to use along with sedition.
Insurrection.
What’s the penalty for that?
News cameras are showing them strolling through the Capitol unchallenged.
Like Trump’s chickensh*t self would actually participate in something like this. Bring the tear gas, rubber bullets and how about some police dogs?
Where is the National Guard? They were put on stand by yesterday.
MSNBC is speaking to Rep. Brendan Boyle. He says that the representatives are holed up in their offices and some of the senior officials — Grassley, Pelosi, etc — are in “secure facilities.” Currently, scores of terrorists are in the building without being screened. Presumably some of them are armed.
The Senate is being evacuated. Claire McCaskill says the Capitol Police have lost control. Jim Hines says tear gas is being used inside the building.
Trump has tweeted that his terrorists need to respect the police.
So. Trump incited a terrorist attack on the US Capitol building. He can invoke the Insurrection Act to “protect” Congress. Where does this go?
Someone needs to get that nuclear football from this terrorist.
Trump is probably cowering in his bunker, shitting himself.
Why? He incited this. He loves this.
No, he doesn’t. What he loves is control and even HIS lizard brain has grasped how OUT of control this has gotten. If he wasn’t on the hook for federal charges before, he sure as hell is now. He basically blew up his own escape route.
You know what really pisses me off? These assholes are the ones that get all the press coverage. The vast majority of Americans, who don’t support this crap, never get any coverage. If we are the “silent majority”, it’s because the media don’t cover us, not because we don’t want to say anything or don’t have anything interesting to say.
May I respectfully suggest we remedy that problem over the next several days? If ever there was a time for us to raise our voices loud and proud, now would be the time. To use the title of a very terrible movie, scream and scream again.