We're at a point where the big conspiracy of the Russian appointed President Donald J. Trump to stage a coup and claim absolute power by knocking out secret service agents and recruiting paramilitary groups is reduced to him rehearsing a speech condemning the riots and slapping the lectern after binge watching Fox News. What we're left with is a messy riot and a dysfunctional White House. But to what extend that is a criminal offense is hard to determine.
Not to mention that Trump has been proven right on the fact that he offered to beef up Capitol security and it was shot down.
And as Jimmy Dore noted, every journalist on Twitter already predicted that this shit could get out of hand as it had gone out of hand all summer. The media basically got the riot they were hyping for weeks.
What you have at the end of the day is a pissed off President that should've known better and law enforcement that didn't properly prepare for a riot and failed to protect the Capitol.
And the lack of security is even more telling if you consider that the fucking President of the United States had given a speech just down the road and the Vice President and Speaker of the House were also in town.
Basically the entire line of succession undefended.
The January 6th hearings have proven that a whole bunch of people acting on their own with different goals and motivations did stupid shit that day.
However Trump never intended a coup, he intended to buy time for his lawsuits and that could only happen if the Republicans blocked certification because time had ran out.
Trump wanted to fight the certification in the courts but his legal team fucked up and he didn't pay any of the good lawyers.
But if Republicans are a bunch of cowards, Mike Pence feared the secret service would murder him and Trump was checked out watching Fox News because he thought it was Antifa while his staff panicked as they were busy answering texts from Fox News...
who was supposed to organize the actual 'coup' part of this?
