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In the ๐บ๐ธUnited States of America, January 6, 2021, was the day that the votes for President of the ๐บ๐ธUnited States from the election in November 2020 would be certified in the USA Capitol by the ๐บ๐ธCongress and the ๐บ๐ธVice President. Of the Presidential candidates, one had won the election, President-elect Joe Biden, and upon certification Joe Biden would be confirmed as President of the ๐บ๐ธUnited States for the next Presidential term. For the first time in ๐บ๐ธUSA history, the previous office-holder, Donald Trump, who in this case had been the other of two candidates and had lost the election, refused to cooperate with and accomplish the Constitutional and peaceful transfer of the ๐บ๐ธPresidency to the next ๐บ๐ธPresident. It was impossible for Donald Trump and Trumpโs supporters to simply say he would not vacate the office of the ๐บ๐ธPresident; everyone would know the bald-face lie in such a statement. What did Trump and some of Trumpโs supporters do? They lied about who won the election; they started the lies in November 2020, then continued telling these lies--repeatedly, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.... Then came the day of the vote certification. What happened next?
Donald Trump and others had planned a rally to take place at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the day of the vote certification. The main event of the rally was a speech by Donald Trump. Based on the events and statements leading up to the rally, and based on Trump's speech, the purpose of the rally speech was a repeat of the lies about the 2020 election that Trump and some supporters had already been stating.
What did Trump say in his speech? He repeatedly restated false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen, and false claims about changed election results due to election fraud; he falsely stated the installation of, and vote certification for, President-elect Joe Biden was a criminal enterprise; he falsely accused Biden of being illegitimate as President, and he made false statements in the context of there being a national security threat due to Biden's election and vote certification; he falsely claimed he won the election, that this could be resolved as Trump wanted by VP Pence, and all VP Pence had to do was send the vote certification back to the states for a recertification; he falsely claimed VP Pence had to send the vote certification back to the states for a recertification; he falsely claimed he had won by a landslide; he stated false accusations against media and "Big Tech" that were in the context of media reports and Big Tech influence (i.e. social media) having caused the election to have been "stolen" from him; he repeatedly made false statements about election details in various states that he presented as "evidence" to support his false claims of election fraud. Earlier in the speech, Trump made statements about going to the Capitol building, in the context of physically walking to the Capitol building; then later in the speech, after the agitation and anger in the crowd were at higher levels, he made statements in the conclusion of the speech encouraging rally attendees to "fight...fight like hell"; from a speech transcript by NPR: "And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun. My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our beloved country. And I say this despite all that's happened. The best is yet to come. So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol...So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue."
The crowd attending the rally were Trump supporters, and many of these supporters had believed the earlier lies told by Trump and others about who won the election. State of mind of the rally attendees was agitation, anger, and a focus on beliefs from the earlier lies about the election. In addition, it is either proven or probable that some rally attendees knew Trumpโs claims about himself having won the 2020 election were false, knew these lies had effectively caused significant anger and resentment for some, and decided to use all of this as the means to pursue their own goals of attempting to get power they wanted, through Trump, by an insurrection.
Why did Donald Trump conclude his speech with exhortations to rally attendees to "fight like hell" (i.e. fight aggressively)? Significant facts involved in the situation: After President-elect Biden's vote certification, Trump would have no effective way to avoid vacating the White House and the office of the President; before January 6, 2021, Trump had made repeated efforts to arrange for changes to the vote certification in some states, and in the Congressional procedures, to declare Trump as President, instead of President-elect Biden; and as investigations and evidence later showed, Trump and many others were engaged in extensive efforts to work out, think about, plan for, and find ways to carry out, stopping President-elect Biden from being certified as the USA's next President and taking office.
What happened after Trumpโs speech? Immediately after Trump concluded the speech, with state of mind of agitation, anger, resentment, some having false beliefs that came from the lies in the speech, others probably knowing the lies and having state of mind on a power grab, hundreds of rally attendees walked to the Capitol building, and then initiated a violent mob attack, violently attacking police officers, and violently trying to get into the Capitol building, with explicitly stated purposes and goals to stop vote certification of President-elect Biden, including pursuing these purposes and goals by plans of violence against VP Pence and multiple members of Congress. Much of the violence against USA's Capitol January 6, 2021, was carried out by weapons that the attacking rally attendees had brought with them to the rally. Why did attendees go to the rally armed with weapons? The only reasonable explanation is that the attack was not an unexpected, spontaneous event, and was premeditated. Premeditated by whom? Obviously by the attendees who had brought the weapons with them. What caused or led to these attendees having a premeditated plan to use weapons for violence that day, at that location? The answers exist in events that occurred after the November 2020 election, up to that day, January 6, 2021. What events? The conversations, statements and acts by Donald Trump and his supporters assisting him (in these efforts), looking for a way to keep Trump at the White House despite the fact Trump lost the election, and looking for a way to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from being certified and taking office as the next President of the United States of America.
From NPR, transcript of Trumpโs rally speech on January 6, 2021: Read Trump's Jan. 6 Speech, A Key Part Of Impeachment Trial - NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial
As stated above, after President-elect Biden's vote certification, Trump would have no effective way to avoid vacating the White House and the office of the President. After the violence had stopped enough to secure the Capitol, Biden's election as USA's next President was certified later that day, and it was impossible for Donald Trump and/or his supporters to avoid the results. Trump had to vacate the White House, and on the day President Biden assumed office, Trump was not the President (thank goodness, thank God). What happened next? Donald Trump and multiple others (supporters of Trump) started a campaign of incessantly repeating the same lies about the 2020 election, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...
Some of these others, probably mostly average Americans in the general public, that made some of these statements (2020 election lies) had believed what Trump and other supporters said about the 2020 election and about January 6th, 2021, so when those that had such beliefs were repeating the lies by Trump and others, they believed it. Then there were those making false statements about the 2020 election that knew these statements were lies, some who had positions of influence which meant the statements they made of these election lies had a more profound harmful effect. One of the impacts of the repetitive lies about the 2020 election was a persistently occurring news cycle about these statements, who said what, what they said, what happened as a result, what were the possibilities of how these statements could or would affect the future. As events have worked out, Donald Trump decided to campaign again for President, for the 2024 election, and lo and behold the accumulated impacts of these lies are now front and center in the campaigning for the 2024 election. Was that an accident? Or happenstance? Could such results have been part of a premeditated plan?
Saving graces in America during this time particularly include: the Republicans who have refused to state these lies, refused to cooperate with or make excuses for these lies, and have explicitly taken a public stand in direct opposition against these lies; Republicans and Democrats who have worked independently and together to protect the USA from the insurrection perpetrated against the United States of America on January 6, 2021; former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and her exemplary leadership involved with starting the Jan6th Committee, and refusing to compromise any standards for the Jan6th Committee (a compromise that had overt and obvious national security threats); the Jan6th Committee, each of the outstanding members of the Jan6th Committee, and the accurate and fact-grounded investigations, evidence documentation and reports of the Jan6th Committee; former members of the Trump administration who courageously refused to cooperate with the lies, and who are cooperating as witnesses in the insurrection investigations and court cases (kudos); the Department of Justice, and everyone in the DOJ who decided to do their job to defend and protect the USA, our Constitution, the office of the President, our Capitol, our Congress, our democracy, our elections and voting, and our national resources; the exemplary efforts and work of Special Council Jack Smith (appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland), Georgia (Fulton County) DA Fani Willis, and NYC DA Alvin Bragg, defending and protecting national and state security, election integrity, the Constitution, and "We the People..."; state election officials and workers who refused to cooperate with these lies, and who took strong stands to defend and protect election resources; judges and court personnel who refused to cooperate with these lies, who refused to allow Trump and others to use them to facilitate these lies or the insurrection, and who took strong stands to defend and protect court and election resources, the Constitution, the office of the President, and the American People; each of the People and groups that continue court efforts to have Donald Trump disqualified from being a Presidential candidate and removed from state ballots, by the 14th Amendment; and many journalists and other writers who did all of the same, refused to cooperate with or facilitate these lies, and who protected and defended our nation, our Constitution and the American People with accurate, factual reports about the 2020 election lies, and the events before, on and after January 6, 2021.
There is one more saving grace that must be acknowledged with special attention, the Police Officers of the Capitol Police Department, and the DC Metro Police Department. What did they do? On January 6, 2021, they held the line. Some held the line outside the Capitol building and in outer areas inside the Capitol building; they stood their ground, they defended and fought back against the violent mob attacking them and our Capitol. These officers holding the line protected everyone inside the Capitol, and provided the time for these People to get to safety. There were other officers inside the Capitol who guided, defended and protected VP Pence, members of Congress and Congressional staff. The insurrectionist mob had explicitly stated goals to try to find certain Leaders in our Capitol in order to murder them; so, the fact that these Police Officers held the line saved Lives, defended and protected our entire nation, and by protecting the USA these Police Officers defended and protected many others of other nations. These Officers stood and fought with courage and integrity that day, and "We the People..." owe them our deepest gratitude.
From Wikipedia, Law enforcement response to the January 6 United States Capitol attack:
โช๏ธ"Police injuries: There were 138 officers (73 Capitol Police and 65 Metropolitan Police) injured, of whom 15 were hospitalized, some with severe injuries. All had been released from the hospital by January 11." It must be remembered that Officer injuries from the insurrection attacks particularly include psychological trauma. This type of injury is real, is internal (not external), and is involuntary (meaning the reality of the internal injuries of psychological traumas are not about choices of trauma survivors to have or not have these injuries).
โช๏ธ"Death of Brian Sicknick: On January 7, 2021, a United States Capitol Police (USCP) officer, Brian Sicknick, died after suffering two strokes the day after he responded to an attack on the U.S. Capitol. The District of Columbia chief medical examiner found that Sicknick had died from stroke, classifying his death as natural[d] and additionally commented that "all that transpired played a role in his condition". His cremated remains were laid in honor in the Capitol Rotunda on February 2, 2021, before they were buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery...On March 14, Julian Khater and George Tanios were arrested for assaulting Sicknick with a chemical spray and for other charges. The medical examiner found no evidence that Sicknick had an allergic reaction to the chemical spray. Prosecutors later said on April 27 that the chemical spray was pepper spray. On January 28, 2023, Khater was sentenced to seven years in prison for assaulting an officer with a chemical irritant."
โช๏ธ"Suicides: Morale among the Capitol Police plummeted after the riot. The department responded to several incidents where its officers threatened to harm themselves; one officer turned in her weapon because she feared what she would do with it. Four officers from various police departments who responded to the attack died by suicide in the days and months that followed. Capitol Police Officer Howard Charles Liebengood committed suicide three days after the attack. Liebengood worked three 24-hour shifts without sleep. Liebengood was survived by his wife Serena, and his two siblings. Liebengood's father was well known to many U.S. Senators, and served as the United States Senate Sergeant at Arms. ยถD.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith, who was injured in the attack, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at George Washington Memorial Parkway on January 15, after his concussion was misdiagnosed. Dr. Jonathan Arden, the former Chief Medical Examiner of the District of Columbia was hired by Smith's widow as part of her lawsuit to have her husband's suicide ruled "in the line of duty". His report said the "acute, precipitating event that caused the death of Officer Smith was his occupational exposure to the traumatic events he suffered on January 6, 2021". On July 30, his attorney David P. Weber filed the opening brief in the attempt, on behalf of Smith's widow, to have his death ruled line of duty. Submitting this report as evidence, on August 13, Smith's widow sued two of his alleged assailants, claiming they caused a traumatic brain injury with a crowbar or a heavy walking stick, leading to his death. According to media reports, Smith's alleged attackers who were named in the lawsuit were identified by an internet vigilante group that analyzed publicly available videos from the Capitol attack. ยถIn the immediate aftermath of the attack, some members of Congress and press reports included Liebengood's and Smith's suicides in the number of reported casualties, for a total of seven deaths. In July, two more members of law enforcement who responded to the attack died by suicide: Metropolitan Police Officer Kyle Hendrik DeFreytag was found on July 10, and Metropolitan Police Officer Gunther Paul Hashida was found on July 29." What is involved with someone getting to a point of suicide? I do not know what these Officers dealt with that led to their suicide deaths; however, from the perspective of my own collection of traumas and other problems, I do know what it took for me to get to a point of deciding I would take my own life. This occurred in 2012; I was at a life crossroad, and as I waited to find out how a particular situation would work out, I decided that if the situation did not work out as was necessary for me, I would not continue here. I did not tell anyone else, and would not have told anyone else before taking that step. The situation worked out as was necessary for me, and after that I moved on and immutably put that possibility behind me. But I know what it took to get to that point.
โช๏ธhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_response_to_the_January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack
As far as I am aware, Donald Trump and supporters of Trump that have promoted the Big Lie (about the 2020 election and denials that the attack against the Capitol was an insurrection) have not expressed gratitude to these Police Officers for their courage and integrity on January 6, 2021, and have not apologized to these Police Officers and their loved ones for the Officer deaths and injuries that resulted from the insurrection attack against the Capitol. That absence of concern for these Officers is a notable aftermath of that day.
January 6, 2024 is the third anniversary of the infamous insurrection perpetrated against our Capitol and our entire nation, and this anniversary is the year of our next Presidential election. Donald Trump is campaigning for the Republican nomination of this year's election, and shockingly the RNC and many prominent Republicans are not trying to stop him, and are actively supporting him; DESPITE THE FACTS of Trumpโs actions leading to, on, and following January 6, 2021, and DESPITE THE FACT Trump has threatened the rights and safety of others (e.g. General Milley), has explicitly stated he would use another term in office for revenge and to become a dictator, and is campaigning on the same lies he has been relying on for more than three years about the 2020 election.
The moral of all of this?
โช๏ธDonald Trump permanently cannot be trusted with public office. For forever.
โช๏ธDonald Trump should be disqualified from being a candidate for the Presidential election, and from any other election.
โช๏ธEVERYONE who has been promoting the Big Lie should IMMEDIATELY STOP DOING THAT, and start doing everything possible to repair the damage that already occurred.
โช๏ธEvery Police Officer, Prosecutor, Judge, Court Staff, who is working on these cases should have ๐ฏsupport from each American. Why? LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED AND CONSIDER THE INTENDED RESULTS. Trump and some Republicans intended to subvert the Constitution, intended to destroy American democracy and electoral processes, and then falsely accused those they attacked of doing what they did themselves.
โช๏ธThe court cases against Donald Trump and others charged must be defended, protected and fully prosecuted.
โช๏ธFrom the United States Attorneys Office:
24 Months Since the January 6 Attack on the Capitol
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/24-months-january-6-attack-capitol
โช๏ธFrom Wikipedia:
January 6 United States Capitol attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack
โช๏ธPresident Biden's speech in Pennsylvania on January 5, 2024:
https://www.youtube.com/live/jobw57hsu6w?feature=shared
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January 11, 2024:
Jack Smithโs case got stronger over the past month
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/11/new-evidence-jack-smith/
Carol Etta Kelso
Prophet, Charging Complainant (against the betrayer), the Petitioner (Advocate Defender), and author of the charging document (subtitled the Blessed Document)
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