I did watch parts of it, dt (missed the opening statements and part of the middle). Did you, dt? I'm curious if anyone else watched any of it.D-train wrote: ↑Fri Jun 10, 2022 11:05 amSo question for you, Gil. Why didn't they overturn the election? Hundreds of people successfully entered the capitol and there was ZERO resistance once they got in. Why didn't they just carry out their plan to overturn the election. Could they not find the election paperwork that Pence hid in his desk? Did they decide once they got in that Biden wasn't a bad guy after all and that they should cancel their big plan to overturn the election? What exactly foiled their plan. Was it all those politicians hiding in the basement that saved the democracy??? Why isn't Trump still president?? They were SO close to overturning the election such a shame they didn't just finish the job while right there in the Capitol.
1.2 Million active duty US military and 800k in the Reserves and a few hundred unarmed clowns are going to overthrown the US government. I honestly can't believe people don't realize how foolish they look when they parrot this insurrection nonsense.
Some of my impressions:
1. I honestly didn't know how long it was between the first protesters confronted the policy at the barricades until the Capitol building itself was breached, which I think was over an hour. During that time, Mike Pence and members of the Congress were taken away for their safety.
2. Why there was so little presence of police/military/reserves is a question I continue to have. I'm a law and order guy and I think there should have been a much stronger response, especially when the building was breached.
3. I also want to know why so many people believe the election was stolen. (Hell, if ***I*** believe the election was stolen I'd likely join a demonstration.)
4. I was struct by how strongly William Barr, who had been Attorney General until late December, said (on a videotaped interview) that there was no widespread fraud in the election. As I see it, Barr was and is solidly conservative, and if HE had seen fraud, I can't imagine why he would not have followed up on it in his official capacity as AG. (Barr was the one who appointed John Durham as Special Prosecutor.)
5. As I said, I missed parts, but my impression is that the testimony is going to try to connect what people like Navarro and Giuliani and Powell were saying about election fraud to what protesters/people in the crowd believed (i.e., what motivated them). Also, something that Barr said was that part of the reason he resigned was because then-Pres. Trump was listening to and acting on those election fraud claims (which Barr did not believe).