I have seen many videos of the violence on January 6.
This is one of the most powerful of them, filmed by Luke Mogelson, published and posted by the New Yorker.
I hope you don’t need a subscription to watch it.
In case you can’t open it, here is most of the video, posted at CNN.
On the ABC evening news today, a video was shown of a prayer from a podium inside the Capitol, led by two of the mob. The prayer’s final incantation was, “…in the name of Christ”.
That segment is included in the New Yorker video. Which was also played on CNN.
The CNN clip: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/01/17/capitol-riot-video-the-new-yorker-newsroom-vpx.cnn
Thanks for adding the link to the longer version of the CNN tape.
The following relates to a question from a different comment thread. It reflects my opinion and has no references to back it. Information could prove the opinion wrong.
Fundamentalist Christian church leaders who are largely autonomous, prioritize expansion of their brands. Theology is secondary and is related to brand enhancement. It seems unlikely that they would dive into their own coffers and turn over a sum like $2 mil. to a clinic, under the control of others. The clinic’s mission e.g. rejection of pharmaceutical birth control, a replacement for Planned Parenthood, would be immaterial to them.
We the voters did not vote for any of these maggot-brain-infected people that sound like they are speaking for all of America.
I heard voices talk about the capital building belonged to them because they paid for it.
BS!
The people that paid to build our capital were born in the 18th century and the ones that rebuilt it after the British burned it was born in the 19th century.
Since most of those buildings were built and/or improved long before most of us were born, that means they were paid for by long-dead Americans and the living did not contribute one penny.
It’s true that some of our taxes go toward paying for upkeep and maintenance, but we do not own those buildings. They are owned collectively by more than 320 million people, not the few thousand in that mob that supported Trump’s attempted coup on January 6th.
Their arrogance is off the charts. Let’s Lock them Up and throw away the keys.
I watched this earlier today. Very scary.
I can’t for the life of me understand why they didn’t think of the ramifications. Cameras everywhere, lots of cellphone videos, and lots of people not even attempting to hide their faces. I wonder if they thought the police, the military, and the rest of the country would join them in the coup and they would go down in history as heroes of the new revolution. William F. Buckley ejected the John Birch Society, now we know why.
The blatant, brazen nature of the insurrection–unmasked people mugging for the cameras and yelling that they have to find and murder our elected representatives–is explained in comments by many of the insurrectionists in the videos: “Let’s sit down here and form a government while we’re at it. Trump’s got our back.”
They clearly believed that they had been called to do this by their president–to use any means necessary to “stop the steal.” They believed this because it was true. The President had called on “Patriots” to “take back your country.” Dog-whistle Don makes it pretty clear, doesn’t he? His base base didn’t mistake his intention. They read it loud and clear.
Donald Trump is a traitor to his country.
And Trump took his cues from the other Teflon Don: Speak in language that is clear to your mob but deniable if you really, really try to misinterpret it. Throw a lot of shyster lawyers at the problem. Bully and intimidate. When you don’t get what you want, use violence.
Trump is a low-life thug. Always has been.
Maybe because they had the bald-faced corruption of American democracy modeled for them?
And the leader of the “mob,” well, that would be The Don, Cheeto “Littlefingers” Trumpbalone, who
fed them a lie, for weeks and weeks, that the election had been stolen and that it had to be taken back and called upon them to come to Washington and “stop the steal”;
issued veiled threats to his own Vice President;
told his goons to march on the Capitol, not to show weakness, and that he would be going with them, but then retreated to his bunker to watch the mayhem, gleefully, according to people in the Whiter House with him at the time;
refused to do anything about the insurrection for many, many hours, despite pleading from many persons, including Republican supporters in Congress and ones on his own staff and administration;
didn’t even bother to communicate with Mike Pence to see if he and his family were OK:
after the quelling of the seditious, deadly attack on the heart of democracy (during which a police officer was killed and crowds were videotaped chanting “Hang Mike Pence” and searching for members of Congress and threatening them with death-all of which Trump watched on TV), praised the rioters as “American Patriots,” repeated his lies about the election being stolen, told the traitors that he loved them, hinted that this was a day that would be remembered proudly, and said that his supporters “will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form”;
and then, in his final direct words to the mob, the day after the insurrection that he incited, tweeted out his sympathies for the murderous insurrectionists, saying that he understood their disappointment and promising more to come:
“To all of my wonderful supporters, I know you are disappointed, but I also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning.” –DJT,
Dog-whistle Don does it again. Translation from wannabe President for Life Trump’s deniable only implausibly comment: “Yeah, our Putsch failed, but you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Nudge nudge. Wink wink.”
The prayer part about minute 8 stood out to me, too.
Demented….evil.
I saw the twelve-minute CNN version. I would like to see any captures of the sound word by word in the midst of the chaos. I saw the segment where the vandals were urged into prayer. I am not a member of any organized religion but the worshipers of Trump were in plain view. There is two little discussion of all of the Republicans who have supported Trump four four years. Most are co-conspiracists.
too not two.
The shaping of the narrative is interesting. Media link the mob’s prayer inside the Capitol to Christian nationalists. The religion of the man revving up the mob who stood next to Giuliani and cited the illegality of the election was not named. John C. Eastman is a legal scholar at a private university and he is a visiting scholar at a Center for Western Civilization at the University of Colorado which must be well-funded.
Eastman is also on the Board of the National Organization for Marriage where he hobnobs with Robert P. George.
Rhetorically, do Eastman’s theological brethren like the men who associate with the Napa Institute, pose a threat that media are unwilling to identify or connect to affinity with Koch or his network?
This video is deeply disturbing. It can also be used to support sedition charges against some of the rioters and looters.
The rioters make quite clear that they are searching for and targeting, with murderous intent, Senators, Representatives, Pelosi, and Pence. Suppose that you and other members of your family, unhappy about something your neighbor, Smith, did, armed yourselves. Suppose that you marched, armed, to Smith’s house. Suppose that you stood outside it and led your relatives in a chant of, “Hang Smith” and then broke into his house, carrying zipties and yelling, “Where is he? Where is Smith?” Suppose that videos of all this were all captured on Smith’s home security system.
What do you think the charges would be?
Suppose further, that one of you, beat Smith’s housekeeper to death with some blunt object.
The charges against you would not be “unlawful entry,” carrying a penalty of a $1,000 fine.
Here’s one minor detail that stood out for this former government teacher: as they entered the Senate chamber, one traitor asks, “Where’s Nancy?” To which I answer, “If you had learned just a little bit about American government, you’d know that ‘Nancy’ would not have been found in the Senate, she would have been in the House. As my former Southern brethren would say, stupid is as stupid does.
How many are actual voters?
The cameraman is a darn brave man.
At 2m30s, after breaking in, the terrorists tell the policemen, they are “peaceful citizens”, and the the policemen just wave them in. Gimme a break.
It is the mob that I fear the most, with its toxic mix of rational but evil intentionality of some and others swept away by the cathartic intoxicating excitement of the moment. The mob has and is capable of unspeakable inhumanity. It is terrifying.