Deleted earlier version of the tweet because I used the term “DC Police” but the article talks about “Capitol Police” so I wanted to repair the mistake.
“While they did not furnish evidence that federal agency officials facilitated the chaos, Insider is reporting this information because it illustrates the scale and seriousness of Wednesday's events: America's international military and security allies are now willing...”
“to give serious credence to the idea that Trump deliberately tried to violently overturn an election and that some federal law-enforcement agents — by omission or otherwise — facilitated the attempt.”
Per NATO source: “The defeated president gives a speech to a group of supporters where he tells them he was robbed of the election, denounces his own administration's members and party as traitors, and tells his supporters to storm the building where the voting is being held...”
"The supporters, many dressed in military attire waving revolutionary-style flags, then storm the building where the federal law-enforcement agencies controlled by the current president do not establish a security cordon, and protesters quickly overwhelm the last line of police.
French official: “I can fly to Washington tomorrow and do that job, just as any police official in Washington can fly to Paris and do mine. This is why we train alongside the US federal law enforcement ... it's obvious that large parts of any successful plan were just ignored."
And here, the new Senate Majority leader appears to attribute some responsibility for yesterday to the Senate Sergeant Arms. https://twitter.com/alanhe/status/1347247407940198405
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