There are multiple photographs of pro-Trump rioters carrying law enforcement-style flex-cuffs.

Rioters went looking for @VP, @SpeakerPelosi, @SenSchumer.

It raises the question of whether there was an organized plan to take hostages. https://twitter.com/lukerussert/status/1347525254441263105
Moreover, multiple reports have indicated that Trump WH officials *were in contact with rioters* during the incident.

This attempt to stop Congress from counting electoral votes was organized on 4chan/8kun/TheDonald/Parler & similar sites. Some of Trump's closest advisers...
...including Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, are both active on many of those sites and very, very familiar with the pro-Trump online communities and the culture thereof.

Any competent investigator will need to look into what White House officials knew and when they knew it.
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