“peacefully”
He’s lying,..again.
Some of the last words he said before the insurrection were “we have to fight like hell” and “if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country”.
He meant PEACEFUL fighting! /s
Yeah, peaceful removal of metal detectors!
“They’re not here to hurt me. Let them in. Let my people in,” Trump said, according to Hutchinson. “They can march to the Capitol after the rally is over.”
“I’m not an Insurrectionist,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, specifically pointing to his comments on Jan. 6 in which he encouraged supporters to march to the Capitol “peacefully and patriotically.”
And then, when they rioted and broke into the Capitol, like you knew they would, you did nothing to stop them. You could have called in the National Guard. Instead, you told them you loved them. You loved them because they did your bidding.
Not only does his inaction speak volumes, he also tweeted out about Pence "not having courage" and got on the phone to call Senators while the Capitol was being invaded to get them to halt the electoral vote count.
Read the Colorado ruling, it's worth it.
Anyone still have the footage of the Trumps and their accolytes in those tents watching the Jan 6 capital invasion while toasting champagne?
One of the people in the White House wrote that he was transfixed by the tv coverage, refused to do anything to interrupt their momentum, and was angry they weren't more aggressive (and also very annoyed that they weren't better dressed / more classy).
hmmm. Sounds like something an insurrectionist would say.
Sounds like something an insurrectionist ~~would~~ did say.
Fixed that for you.
Manson: "I've never killed anyone"
Nixon: "I am not a crook"
I guess he wants us to get it right and say it was a failed coup.
Insurrection: The act or an instance of revolting especially violently against civil or political authority or against an established government.
Coup: A sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.
It was a violent revolt against political authority. Specifically, congress.
It was an coup attempt via insurrection.
Umm... It was also a coup attempt by him cold calling his Rolodex and demanding they break laws against the federal election process.
Sure, but we're specifically talking about January 6th here.
"Well... we did do the hat... and the nose..."
Did he put his hands up with two peace signs when he said it?
This was exactly what I pictured. 😂
Trump also claimed Biden is an insurrectionist and a threat to democracy
It'd be funny if his supporters didn't take this nonsense seriously.
2016:
Clinton: Trump is a Russian agent.
Trump: NO U
2023:
Biden: Trump is an insurrectionist.
Trump: NO U
Truly nothing says wrongfully accused like the "I know you are but what am I?" defense 🙄
He's an insurrectionist and he stinks like shit. Most important part is to remember how bad he smells though because this shit he's saying now is clearly just to distract from the shit in his pants.
'Diaper Don': Internet celebrates 'Trump smells' trending on social media
My favorite thing about that is that after Kinzinger told everyone Trump stinks, one of Trumps' people responded by saying that Kinzinger once farted on live TV. Which, you know, is just as bad as a persistent shit smell. Everyone knows that once you fart, that fart stays with you for life.
He says a lot of things.
He says little
And on the 6th day, he insurrected.
Insurrected sounds like a penis pill
He's a sore loser. The very bigliest of losers!
He is the best loser ☝️ There is nobody that lose as YUUUUUUGELY as he can 👌
[And immediately proceeds to tell one of his InSIRrection stories 🫡]
With tears running down his face.
And condensed feces running down his ~~orangutang~~ orange crack 🍑
Do me a favor: don't Brave/DuckDuckGo
donald trump + arbitrage
If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck then it must be a duck.
Ol' Donald "I'm not an insurrectionist, you are" Trump
And he's perfectly correct. Insurrections happen from below - Trump was literally the president of the damn country.
No, he's not an insurrectionist. You could make the case that this was an (extremely) bumbling attempt at an autocoup... but it's such an incompetent one that it hardly justifies the word outside of a purely legal framework. He should have asked the dictators from those "shithole countries" he famously disparaged how to do it - they'd show him how properly done autocoups really work.
What I find so strange is that the media in the US doesn't want to talk about what Trump actually did - sicc a white lynch mob on the capitol. That's what it was. Fortunately, it was a very incompetent one - the only people they managed to lynch was some of their fascist besties (ie, police - the institution that protected Trump's fascist enablers from antifa when they were marching in the streets). Yet, for some reason, everybody looks at this and squeals, "insurrection!" instead of calling it what it really is.
insurrection /ĭn″sə-rĕk′shən/
noun
- The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.
- A rising up; uprising.
- The act of rising against civil authority or governmental restraint; specifically, the armed resistance of a number of persons to the power of the state; incipient or limited rebellion.
He did all three of those things. He's an insurrectionist.
just because he's bad at it doesn't mean he didn't try
The president serves the people, the nation.
The country is not owned by the President.
The President is not a king.
It is not their's to do with as they please.
It is a job.
So peaceful that one person was shot and killed, 138 police officers suffered various injuries, and 4 others committed suicide in subsequent months. And that’s not even all of it…
I'll take things insurrectionist's say for $2000.
Nah, your an insurrection instigator, which is worse.
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