Trump Junior says the “vast, vast, vast majority” of people arrested for J6 were “basically tourists”

bbsam

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I guess if there were 20,000 people there and only 450 were bad actors, he kinda has a point.
 

wilberforce15

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I still laugh when Jr said right after it happened it was all ANTIFA and BLM that went inside
It was just a bunch of guys who were trying to have some sort of revolution, and simply forgot to bring guns and hurt people. Or to win.

It's almost like there was a different goal.
 

bbsam

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Tens of thousands of gun owners supposedly attacked the capital, and all of them forgot their guns.

If we wanted an insurrection, there would be an insurrection.
What makes you think in insurrection needs to be planned? They believed the lie that Trump won. They view themselves as patriots with the full force of the US military (if not God himself) behind them.

I doubt that any of them even considered the term insurrection and that includes those who knew what the term meant. You really don’t have to know understand a law in order to break it.
 

oldngray

nowhere special
What makes you think in insurrection needs to be planned? They believed the lie that Trump won. They view themselves as patriots with the full force of the US military (if not God himself) behind them.

I doubt that any of them even considered the term insurrection and that includes those who knew what the term meant. You really don’t have to know understand a law in order to break it.
If it wasn't planned then you admit Trump was blameless.
 

bbsam

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If it wasn't planned then you admit Trump was blameless.
Again, why would it have to be planned? Why would he be blameless? Could you hand loaded shotguns to ten twelve year olds and when something bad happened say, “I didn’t plan for that to happen! Wasn’t me!”?
 

wilberforce15

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What makes you think in insurrection needs to be planned? They believed the lie that Trump won. They view themselves as patriots with the full force of the US military (if not God himself) behind them.

I doubt that any of them even considered the term insurrection and that includes those who knew what the term meant. You really don’t have to know understand a law in order to break it.
You are talking about a figment of your own imagination. If that group wanted to take over the capitol, they would have.

They had the numbers and ability to hold it.

They did not do so, because they chose not to do so. Because it wasn't an insurrection. They had no intent of overthrowing the law or the lawmakers.
 

TearsInRain

IE boogeyman
Again, why would it have to be planned? Why would he be blameless? Could you hand loaded shotguns to ten twelve year olds and when something bad happened say, “I didn’t plan for that to happen! Wasn’t me!”?
twelve year olds aren't adults who are responsible for their own fates yet
 
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