What was supposed to be an event-filled day in Washington D.C. turned violent as Trump supporters, in town for a huge MAGA rally to protest what they believe to be rampant voter fraud in the November election, clashed with Capital and metro Washington D.C. police on Wednesday.
Tens of thousands of Trump supporters from all over the country came to make their voices heard on the day Congress was to count electoral votes and officially certify the 2020 Presidential election.
This crowd at the Trump rally is INCREDIBLE!pic.twitter.com/hSCetcCLsb
— Cassandra (@CassyWearsHeels) January 6, 2021
Crowd continues to increase in size with Trump supporters for today’s rally in Washington, DC. pic.twitter.com/poVMoDPBoa
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) January 6, 2021
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Chaos Ensues At The Capitol
However, things took a turn for the worse, as throngs of protesters holding MAGA and Trump flags and signs stormed the Capitol building itself.
The chaos was captured by reporters on the ground and Twitter users who were in Washington.
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Police used pepper spray. The Capitol building itself was evacuated.
BREAKING: THE MOMENT CONGRESS joint session halted, because protestors entered the U.S. Capitol building. All members, including Mike Pence, were evacuated from the building. pic.twitter.com/E6g5c8QtQC
— Cardinal Conservative (@CardinalConserv) January 6, 2021
The Capitol building has been placed on lockdown and it is unknown how long that will be in effect.
A 6pm curfew for the city has been put in place for this evening, while Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had said Monday she would call in the National Guard if the gathering got too out of hand.
As of Wednesday afternoon, President Trump himself called in Guardsmen to restore peace, but not before a protester was shot inside the Capital building.
There were reports that guns were drawn inside the Capitol, near the House chamber.
Police have guns drawn. We are hiding behind chairs and tables on House gallery
— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) January 6, 2021
Woman Shot And Killed
Around 4pm Eastern time, graphic video was posted on Twitter of a young woman being shot.
It is unclear at this time who shot the woman. She was in critical condition at an area hospital, and has now been reported to have died from her wounds.
All this chaos unfolded as thousands of Trump supporters gathered at what was billed the “Save America” march.
Many Trump supporters believe that the election was fraudulent, and that many state and federal officials have failed to address and hold to account those involved, though the media and fact-checkers insist no widespread fraud has occurred.
Twitter was filled with pictures of thousands of peacefully gathered, flag waving people.
Tens of thousands of Trump supporters are out in DC this morning, packing The Ellipse and now filling up much of the space near the Washington Monument as an overflow area to watch the rally #DC #SaveAmericaMarch #WashingtonDC #January6thDC pic.twitter.com/PaYZsRXWk3
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) January 6, 2021
Roughly 40 minutes after the melee had begun, President Trump called upon his supporters to remain calm and end any violence.
About an hour later, he put out a second tweet asking for calm.
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I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
There are mixed feelings on social media about what is taking place.
Some think that the violence, while not justified, has been building for quite some time.
Others feel as if conservatives and Republicans are using the tactics of Antifa and that the violence is in no way justified.
Today’s rally could be the last stand for Trump supporters. Few legal challenges in battleground states remain.
It is unclear at this time when the Senate will continue with the certification process and hearing challenges to those results.
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check it out people the left planned to let people into the capital aka antifa ,watch this cops let people in https://www.instagram.com/p/CJuKPyXh2E4/
The left: "Good, one less Trump supporter, and ready for more good news? Three more, and we sure hope they're ALL white!" You know this is what they are thinking….
After looking at many sources and only keeping what can be verified, this armchair qb sees that 99.99% of the crowd was peaceable and there were at least four large vans of Antifa thugs who went up to the Capitol and threw flares and fought with police and got into the building. This was verified by the FBI and that verification was corroborated by several other sources. The woman who was shot by a Capitol lieutenant was unarmed and was a military veteran with 4 tours of duty, and there is no good explanation of why the lieutenant shot her. There were three other deaths that day, but not because of the protest; they had pre-existing medical conditions such as heart or circulation problems. President Trump did not in any way ask for a riot, it is clear now that the Antifa thugs were sent in (by the Dems, maybe?) to disrupt the peaceful gathering and sway the voting inside. Unfortunately, it worked; it doesn't matter who is voting or what they are voting on, they have the right to have the proceedings to happen fairly. The American people were cheated again.
Jumping to conclusions is a fairly normal human trait, but once things settle down and the intelligence reports are in, the truth comes out. And there will be more to this story coming out as the days go by.
Your wife also revealed on Jerry Springer something about a blow-up doll you have, with duct tape ALL over it, dear Simon! Care to fill us all in on that?
Officer Who Killed Ashli Babbitt, Air Force Vet in Capitol Riot, ‘Didn’t Have a Choice,’ GOP Lawmaker Says
The U.S. Capitol Police officer who killed an Air Force vet when a mob stormed the beacon of democracy on Wednesday “didn’t have a choice at that time,” a GOP lawmaker who witnessed the shooting said Thursday. “They were trying to come through the front door, which is where I was at in the chamber, and in the back they were trying to come through the speaker’s lobby, and that’s problematic when you’re trying to defend two fronts,” Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said “When they broke the glass in the back, the [police] lieutenant that was there—him and I already had multiple conversations prior to this—and he didn’t have a choice at that time. The mob was going to come through the door, there was a lot of members and staff that were in danger at the time. And when he [drew] his weapon, that’s a decision that’s very hard for anyone to make and, once you draw your weapon like that, you have to defend yourself with deadly force.”
The officer reportedly shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, a San Diego resident who supported the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory. Mullin said authorities ultimately “showed a lot of restraint” and “did the best they could” amid the chaos.
This noose must be for the BLM/Antifa rioters who murdered people, you mean, dear SIMON? Hypocrite….now get in the ambulance, once and for all. And we're done, psycho.
Sedition and lynching are what the insurrectionists stand for. UGH! MAGA!
Sigh, you keep going on and on and on, except, as your wife revealed on Jerry Springer, on your wedding night. Sorry, but it does explain so much about you, dear Simon.
Congress certified Joe Biden’s victory around 3:40 a.m. Thursday, capping a tragic, democracy-testing day in Washington. And Trump, who was spewing his toxic and dangerous election fraud lies hours earlier, inciting the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, finally agreed to “an orderly transition on January 20th.”
Trump is increasingly isolated and alone at the White House, with some staffers already exiting—or considering resigning—amid fears of what the president could do with 13 more days in power. “He’ll want to burn the whole thing down,” says one Republican strategist. “Trump doesn’t give a hoot about anyone but himself.”
Indeed, Trump was seemingly loving the domestic terrorism occurring in his honor. Remember his now-removed Wednesday tweet praising the “patriots” taking over the Capitol in support of his “sacred landslide election victory.” The chaos inside felt “like an active-shooter drill,” said one Congressional aide.) Finally, Twitter muzzled Trump.
Thank goodness it was a white woman killed if it was someone else of colour BLM would bring wrath of God.
Hard not to stay focused on the murder of a girl reported in one account to be 16 years old, on the Hill yesterday.
Why weren't the ARNGs activated before this? There are photo recognition matches of ANTIFA activists inciting Trumpers to react like they do. And that is the disparity here. In Albany NYS a Bill moved forward that allows them to incarcerate anyone posing a health issue, the problem is the Bill is too loosely worded and activists like AOC, with enemy lists and disparaging talk of political opposition as needing "re education" and Gulags as to make the government itself suspicious and guilty of over reach.
In this instance after a year of ANTIFA and BLM and any other left wing nut destroying private property and public including state buildings none were fired on by law enforcement, in fact that has resulted in defunding the police when any of their perceived masses are shot or OD in police custody.
The disparity is significant. They gunned down a 16 year old girl because she was threatening her "representatives"? She's a martyr and she was murdered by a caste of officials who presumed themselves gods.
Example: Romney was disparaged as a traitor yesterday , the press response was like, that's no way to treat a god. Google, "If a person receives exaltation, they inherit all the attributes of God the Father…. Mormons believe that these people will become gods and goddesses in the afterlife…" Is that what Romney is aiming for?
So, since a peaceful protester, who was unarmed, was shot/killed by Capital Police is that thug going to be arrested and prosecuted ?? Family will get Millions !!!
Speaking of "deformity", it seems your wife is STILL upset with what little you've got "DOWNSTAIRS", shall we say?
I'm trying to get him into Shady Hills Sanitarium as we speak, but they don't want him…
Can't take a joke or reality either I see. I suggest a check up for your condition.
"One Hung Lo" – Sorry for your deformity but it's nothing compared to your cerebral damage.
In the early 1900's, the Bolshivicks in Russia confiscated all land and property owned by individuals to be given to their supporters. The method here will to be tax all wealth, not just income, with Biden's 400,000 annual income target just a starting point. Unfortunately, he will be supported because the number of have-not freeloaders on various forms of welfare, including ongoing stimulus checks irregardless of the pandemic or not, continues to increase with 50% of the people paying no taxes at all. Expect that percentage to rise during these next four years. Voters had better learn to smarten up in the 2022 congressional elections before all labor and material acquisitions becomes penalized under socialism followed by communism under a democratic executive and congressional dictatorship. We have this coming into play now in New York, the overtaxed, over regulated, politically corrupt, liberal sanctuary welfare state under Emperor Cuomo and his liberal minions especially in NY City, where people are leaving NY at an average rate of 950 per day, #1 in the nation for escapees. This will mirror a national trend of more leaving the USA in the coming four years – those who still believe in work and those who will try to protect their retirement accumulations from the DemocRATS.
It seems this violent, disruptive behavior has happened previously.
During many of then Presidential Candidate Trump rallies, except those held in airports hangers, extremists mingled with and initiated violence and or shouting matches to induce violent re-actions from Trump supporters.
Could it be these same infiltrated this peaceful protest?
Thereby lending "truth" to the lie, thousands of Trump supporters are really violent, White Supremacist?
Despite the thousands of persons of every color, gender, sexual orientation, age group, etc., attended?
Could it be possible?
It would seem these Trump Supporters suddenly changed their "tactics."
It smacks of the old saying of "Something raw, aka stinks in Denmark."
Democrats CHEER as Patriots are gunned down by Police……
Not shot, murdered, and martyred. How many state buildings had the ANTIFA, BLM and other DNC mobs seized across the USA, did the police shoot any of them?
Not a woman, a girl. A 16 year old girl. A 16 year old UNARMED girl.
I believe.. (and I expect investigation will reveal WHO THE INSTIGATORS OF VIOLENCE WERE TODAY),… that many of the couple hundred who 'stormed' the Capitol WERE ANTIFA/BLM 'PLANTS'… and this whole 'storm-the-Capitol' SCHEME' was an orchestrated-plan by GEORGE SOROS, collaborating with CCP, ..Gates/WEF 'operatives', and the Democrats, in an attempt to ensure a MEDIA-DISTRACTION,.. so as NOT to address the REAL ELECTION FRAUD that has taken place,.. not only in our Presidential-Election,.. but in the Georgia Senate Run-off election last night!!
There is NO WAY that the 200,000 + peaceful protestors I saw assembled– for up to 8 hours, to listen to President Trump's STOP-THE-STEAL RALLY,… would have ANY INCLINATION to 'storm' the Capitol.
I suspected this chaos-orchestration when the Mayor of D.C. days-ago suggested the use of the National-Guard to deal with Trump-supporting protestors,…. have you EVER seen Trump-rally's, and Trump-supporters be anything but polite, considerate of others,… and at the same time VOCAL-??— BUT NEVER VIOLENT!! I knew something was being cooked-up by the LEFT-CORRUPTOCRATS,.. and their Soros-funded 'mobs'.
When the truth comes out,..and it will,… I'm sure this 'stormiing-scheme' was a LEFTIST-orchestrated-event,. to make Trump-supporters look bad,.. AND to distract from the momentous EXPOSURE of the Election-Fraud during the reading/objections to the Electoral votes. IT SHOWS HOW DESPERATE THE GLOBAL-LEFT IS.
Ann – Statistically, this was a fraudulent election. They say when two cultures clash, the one willing to be the most violent, wins. Prog policy is marxist fascist socialist jihadi, not just because Progs are these things/think this way but because they are first and foremost criminals subverting the Amer Way of checks balances & sep of powers since slavery and markedly since the marxist Pres Wilson. I wager these progs will now get what they have dared to promise us: violence in the streets.
Civilized man has always been the greatest minority. There are more RINOs who subvert the Contract, as the progressives do, because they are criminals too (avarice and enterprise). I would love to hear you direct your personality to the greatest evil in American legislative history: omnibus legislation. This all or none style of legislature is definitively corrupted and corrupting. Omnibus ELIMINATES transparency well enough that legislatures are unable to be held accountable to any assembly of constituent voter values, which is the whole idea of a US Congress. Finally – not really – omnibus makes congress easier to bribe by the army of third party special interests just as the 17 amndmnt concentration of power did – 17, the especially successful move to take out states rights.
Omnibus corruption is the logical path of corruption brought forward by marxist Wilson era 17 amndmnt. Every republic in history has fallen to a dictatorship – looks like we just passed the 1/2 point.
The left TRULY screwed up! They thought they could steal this election and they are wrong. Creepy Joe is NOT the true President, you can not CHEAT your way into the presidency as the left thinks. You think the left with their pathetic Antifa and BLM were a problem…imagine what tens of millions of Patriots who LOVE this country are capable of.
Can't handle the truth, can you?
Federal officials said Richard Barnett of Arkansas was taken into custody Friday morning in Little Rock.
Barnett was charged with knowingly entering and remaining in restricted building ground without authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and the theft of public property, officials said.
A resident of Alabama was also charged in connection with the pipe bomb found on the south side of the Capitol building, 11 Molotov cocktails and military-style weapon found in his pickup truck.
Simon, the troll is back at it again.
"They were the only people with guns" Wrong!
D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department released a list of suspects and the crimes they are arrested on suspicion of. The charges include:
Be careful. The Dem/Communists want to destroy us just like the Tea Party. We were fearful that they were going to arrest us and put us in camps. We did believe we were being spied on and our phone conversations were being recorded. The spineless Republican Party had no one in it to stand up and tell the truth. We should have started a new party then.
Oh we all know how the Dems /Communist work – too bad Robert Byrd isn't still around so he could share his bedtime stories about the K l u K l u x K l a n. Or that LBJ isn't still around so he could tell the African Americans of today just how he felt about and what he labeled their ancestors as (those
d a m n n****rs). The Dems/Communists will be the ones to destroy this country….it's just too bad that we can not divide the country in half and let the Dems live their idealist socialist society where EVERYONE lives on the same income and the same medical insurance. While on the other side allow the Republicans/Conservatives to live in their Capitalist society but NO ONE is considered an elite or better than anyone else.
I'm actually happy that I do not have grandchildren as I would never want them to live in what this world has become because of the greedy and hateful ways of the Dems/Socialists/Communists – it's all about them, their $24,000.00 refrigerator/freezer and their $15 a pint of ice cream. I guess for them, those who die with the most toys win….win what – Thank G-d I'm a President Trump supporter!!!
You are right no one can be sure it was Capitol police, but I do believe that this was all planned and paid for by the Dem/Communist. They want to destroy Trump and all of his supporters so that he won't be able to run for President in the future. Now you can see how the Dem/Communists work with Antifa, BLM, and the media to destroy our country and patriotic citizens.
How can you be positive that only the Capitol Police had guns….Antifa was there and so was BLM. Both groups were dressed as Trump Supporters. I have never heard of an Antifa member or a BLM member going to a rally NOT fully dressed, i.e., packing heat!!!
I think, with you dear Simon, they're gonna need a bigger ambulance! What a HUGE ego you got goin' on there, pal!
The woman is Ashli Babbit a strong supporter of President Trump, She climbed onto a small ledge next to a doorway inside the Capitol building immediately before a single loud bang was heard. She then fell to the ground at the top of a stairwell.
Dozens of supporters of President Donald Trump breached the security perimeter and entered the Capitol as Congress was meeting, expected to vote and affirm Joe Biden’s presidential win. They were seen fighting with officers both inside the building and outside.
The Metropolitan Police Department says an investigation into her death continues.
She was shot by the Capitol police. They were the only people with guns. There will be no outrage from the Dem/Communists. They will celebrate because there is one less white Trump supporter.
As the picture reveals, weed is needed to hang around you for more than 5 minutes, dear Simon! Isn't this your grand daughter visiting you on News Year's (she was forced to, by the way)….exactly 5 minutes after saying "Hello" to you, pal?
Antifa plants? You're smoking too much weed?
Not Trump supporters but Antifa plants. Why would a Trump supporter shoot their own? That's the thumb print of Antifa and their violent tactics.
Word was Antifa was brought in dressed in Maga gear so they could blame the patriots! I believe this and the blood is on the hands of the democrats!!
I am so sorry for this brave woman and all who are taking a stand against the dishonest cheating liars of the government. I believe it is far from over so sad that the gangster mentality has now taken over this once great country and people who feel they are so above the law sit in judgement of the real hard working men and women of this county. I will say prayers tonight for all of those people who are fighting this take over of our country. I will pray that the greedy haters of the regime will fail
George Soros money again paying Antifa & BLM thugs to mix into Trump rallies to cause destruction & make bad news !
I think when the dust clears you will find ANTIFA did their job… This part of the rally was disgusting. As was the previous year of "protests" with nothing from the democrats as to the violence, burning and hate. NOTHING!! Nothing when history was being dismantled. NOTHING! The simple solution would have been voter idenity. Pure and simple. No questions asked. But for the democrats to not even question voter integrity leads to more questions. Did some dead people vote, were some people told they had already voted when they went to the polls. Were votes put into the system over and over. No one questioning that. WOW!!! Communist at their best.
Identify the woman. Is she a Trump supporter or Antifa? Give us her background.
Correction friend,,, POTUS is NOT responsible,,,, the E-v-i-l DemoFats and Swamp are. Those in power have turned a blind eye to the massive display of Corruption, Lies and Deceit in OUR Nation.
How about jello with nice whipped cream…just for you, dear Simon! Hurry now, as the sedatives for you are starting to wear off…
The woman is Ashli Babbit a strong supporter of President Trump, She climbed onto a small ledge next to a doorway inside the Capitol building immediately before a single loud bang was heard. She then fell to the ground at the top of a stairwell.
Dozens of supporters of Trump breached the security perimeter and entered the Capitol as Congress was meeting, expected to vote and affirm Joe Biden’s presidential win. They were seen fighting with officers both inside the building and outside.
The Metropolitan Police Department says an investigation into her death continues.
LAW & ORDER??? MAGA???
The young woman who lost her life today was, in essence, murdered. She was standing in a crowd, unarmed, then shot by an errand bullet fired by officer or officer who panicked. She appeared to be stunned, realizing she had been shot, and in shock, at the vary act of being shot, for no apparent reason. She later died at the hospital. An unarmed bystander, who made no aggressive move towards law enforcement is dead. This is what happen when the politicians refuse to hear the people's grievances that an election was stolen. Everyone is to blame for this disaster. The states' legislators, the state courts, SCOTUS, politicians, Congress, POTUS, protestors. But no, no one would listen. And so they vented their rage on Congress. Violence begets violence. Peaceful protest is the only way to present grievances. It really makes you wonder what January 21st has in store for us.
Get ready for the Demoncrats to begin mass arrests and imprisonment of Trump supporters and people NOT registered as "Demoncrats" down at the office of the Supervisor of Elections. . . Hitler ain't got shit on the treasons and horrors of the Communist TRAITORS who have stolen OUR election and begun the death roll of OUR America. . .as planned by the Kenyan Terrorist who would be "KING", brak insane Obama and his Demoncrat Communist Horde.
THIS is where we are going to see REAL News vs FAKE news!! Bus-loads of antifa were spotted in DC to infiltrate the AMERICAN crowd. Then we have a screen shot of a post an antifa member posted, around election time, that stated 'Comrades should DRESS AS TRUMP SUPPORTERS' so that they will go unnoticed. OBVIOUSLY these AGENT PROVOCATEURS did the same, today, and then STORMED the Capital. There MAY have been some UNSUSPECTING Patriots who got caught up with that Agent Provocateur crowd!!
This was our Tiananmen Square. God bless her courage.
You are entirely correct. The Antifa and BLM folks were let in by police. It was an attempt to politically bury President Trump. As Rush said on his show today, they want our president in a "political coffin" from now until he leaves office. They want to permanently destroy his future political chances.
And they also want to send a warning to any other political outsiders with ambitions of doing what President Trump in the future. They hate outsiders. They were furious that we chose Trump in 2016 instead of not only Hillary, but the 17 or 18 other establishment RINOs in the primary campaign (such as Jeb Bush).