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No one should be surprised about what happened with Trump supporters storming the Capitol yesterday, but why yesterday, and not on election day or some other day since the election, several reasons......
1 – on election day, Trump campaign needed people to vote, they still thought they could win and almost did, so they couldn’t lead supporters to a specific time & place, by Jan 6, Trump had lost & DC/Capitol became a place where all could be directed for chaos
2 – Yesterday's insurrection was completely foreseeable, lead up election day, we saw many groups (militias, white supremacists, anti-government) calling for mobilizations to violence. The same groups have set about planning this mobilization to DC for weeks.
3 - President has told his supporter to come to the Capitol and told us it was going to be wild, and it was, and this time, Trump had more coordinated help from none other than those he just pardoned, where were Flynn, Stone?
4 - Here's former National Security Advisor Flynn lying to crowd (kinda like he lied to the FBI) getting them stirred up,
5 - Flynn calls people 'Traitors' stokes the big event yesterday, and joined by the guy who led to FBI's first tip in Russia investigation, recently pardoned George Papadopoulos
6 - And of course, who was already rewarded for undermining democracy, Stone, the guy whose been saying 'Second Civil War' for years, defying court orders, a chief proponent of yesterday https://www.vox.com/22215120/trump-stop-the-steal-protests-downtown-washington-dc-electoral-college
7- As reported here, Pastor Mark Burns ready to "run through a brick wall" so maybe the crowd thought breaking down doors and storming the Capitol was part of the plan, right? sounds like a coup/insurrection to me https://web.archive.org/web/20210106011735/https://twitter.com/petemont/status/1346626775518994432
8 - but wait, what signal could confirm this would be a disaster yesterday, aside from the President holding a rally in from the Capitol and saying he was going to walk up there with them? You knew it, Alex Jones of course.
9- Why would protestors think they should storm the Capitol? maybe when President's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, calls for "trial by combat", crowd might have thought peaceful options were expended & it was time to resort to violence? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/watch-giuliani-demand-trial-by-combat-to-settle-election.html
10 - Many groups said they would standby these individuals, lots of III%er's out there yesterday, they even put out a statement a while back, guess who they mention = Flynn https://www.thethreepercenters.org/single-post/ttpo-stance-on-election-fraud
11 - Why would we imagine that they'd break into the actual U.S. Capitol yesterday, not just protest, because it already happened in MI on April 30. these groups celebrated it & guess who was there, terrorists later arrested by FBI https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/11/01/michigan-kidnapping-plot-coronavirus-lockdown-whitmer/?arc404=true
12 - Just know way of knowing this would get ugly, when people publicly fantasize killing innocent people https://twitter.com/BenLorber8/status/1346494428609974273?s=20
13 - decade ago, we worried al Qaeda ideologues inciting violence with speech, sending terrorists into places like Capitol, what did we observe over the past week by our elected leaders, their surrogates & their supporters? FBI definition terrorism is? https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism
14 - FBI warned us about domestic extremists this year, Director Wray briefed us, QAnon specifically cited, and what did we see yesterday? https://www.rollcall.com/2020/09/17/fbi-director-describes-domestic-extremists-in-homeland-threats-hearing/
15 - this was the natural culmination of the QAnon conspiracy theory and its committed community. This is what we all thought would happen, it only took this long because they needed direction, which they got from the President https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/qanon-believers-stormed-the-capitol
16 - what's remarkable many same Congressmen scared by yesterday's events were briefed on this for YEARS & did nothing. Suddenly, when it comes to their house, they're activated. @LindseyGrahamSC nice speech, but remember this discussion you convened https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/10-31-17%20Watts%20Testimony.pdf
17- another key difference between yesterday’s Capitol insurrection & other mobilizations was response. When states have foreseen mobilizations like this, we’ve seen Governors prepare, respond, national guard etc. but in DC, who commands resources, in this case, the instigator
18- final note on thread, we should expect the Trump machine will keep pulling stunts like yesterday at the Capitol. Trump has consistently pushed these provocations, it would be inconsistent for him to stop doing this post inauguration.
19 - If you've not seen it, much of what I was trying to explain is articulated better & more thoroughly here by @LiteraryMouse with relevant screenshots, check out the evidence she shows https://twitter.com/LiteraryMouse/status/1347873482550468609?s=20
