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© Thomson Reuters 2021.'What planet' are they on? Judge blasts Republicans for downplaying attack on U.S. Capitol
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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GdTokyo
"I'm especially troubled by the accounts of some members of Congress that Jan. 6 was just a day of tourists walking through the Capitol," U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said during a court hearing in Washington. "I don't know what planet these people are on."
Whoa, Judge. Be careful. Say that in Japantoday and you’ll get moderated.
SuperLib
Planet Trump.
Happy Day
They need to release ALL the tapes. This way we will see WHO was facilitating this “insurrection”. Until then it’s pure speculation on what happened and why.
We already know Antifa and Capitol Police we’re waiving people in the Capitol. Any other government agencies helping to facilitate?
Bob Fosse
So Reagan’s judge is next traitor under the bus?
Hiroshi13
January 6 definitely wasn't "tourists walking through Capitol" but it also wasn't a "deadly insurrection" either...unless you count the unarmed protestor who died after Capitol police shot her in the face.
Peter14
The badly planned and carried out insurrection to deny democracy from functioning on Jan 6th had the same lack of professionalism of the Trump presidency. Go in half backed with lies and a complete lack of understanding and hope things swing your way. Afterwards the GOP fall in line saying it was in everyone's imagination, like the good little sheep that they have become.
God help the future of the USA. Until Trump has gone or has no influence left over the GOP, they will mill around in circles and make America a basket case.
He should have been charged and done time for what he tried to do.
bass4funk
No, it’s more about not falling into the Democrat trap of dragging this thing out and calling for more witnesses and wasting more tax payer funds to chase essentially after a former sitting President in the hopes of helping the Dems impeach the guy again so he can be convicted in the Senate and not run and good on the GOP Senate for not falling for any of this crap. If the Dems are angry, they’ll get over it someday, now while they stew and worry about the past, the GOP needs to keep the eye and goal focused on regains the House, that’s the smart and rational thing to do, leave the Dems at their own device.
Blacklabel
too much focus on the stupid "tourists" comment.
it wasnt that, but it certainly wasnt any "armed insurrection" either.
The videos that have been denied release so far will tell the full story in the end.
Bob Fosse
You really want to see people pooping in Pelosi’s desk and smearing it over the walls?
There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the day. Babbit is shot in a different body part each time I read about it.
stormcrow
They should imprison a good number of those traitors. Horrible people.
ulysses
Planet Dumb!!!
All it takes is a lot of hate in the heart and a total lack of education to get there!!!
Blacklabel
have YOU seen this? or just accept the media narrative that it happened?
Attilathehungry
It is funny how the left decries all right wing people as idiots and morons and rednecks.
Until now. They have suddenly morphed into devious plotters and cunning perpetrators of a planned insurrection.
Sorry, you can't have it both ways. This was just another example of a mostly peaceful protest. A couple windows got broken, but that's just property. Insurance can cover the cost. The vast majority of those who attended Trump's rally did as he said, and went about their business peacefully. A few were hotheads and need to be spanked for it. But there was no serious attempt to overthrow the government.
ulysses
The funny part is that they are doing it for a man who neither has control over his thoughts or his bladder!!!
The bar for becoming a darling of the bigots is really low!!
ulysses
Idiotic morons can be easily manipulated by their unscrupulous leaders into committing crimes.
Blacklabel
Yes, he noticed the FBI informants and Antifa plants in the crowd getting violent.
Express sister
You can attempt to unjustly overturn the results of the 2020 election and be incompetent. Just look at Trump, for another example.
Express sister
Have YOU seen this? Or do you just accept the Qanon narrative that it happened?
bass4funk
Yes and the MAJORITY of people assembled and were peaceful.
You can say the same about the support of the left for Biden
Yup!
I guess what makes liberals and Trump haters so angry is that they lost 3 times now in blocking this President from running and they can't stop him, he might run, he might not, Santis might run as well, who's younger and follows the exact same philosophy, not to mention Trump is still heavily involved in the GOP and selection of the best non-establishment candidates, none of us know what the guy will do, but stopping him, very unlikely.
SuperLib
Actually I believe the new narrative Tucker Carlson is pushing is that it was all planned by the FBI.
bass4funk
Given the FBI's credibility over the years, seems plausible.
ulysses
That's rich , coming from the supporters of a criminal.
The FBI will always have more credibility than the brainless extreme right wing !!!
Jsapc
That is where you are actually completely and entirely wrong.
There's no cult of personality for Joe Biden. The vast majority of people who voted for him know what he is: a 78-year old democratic politician, with an extensive career in Washington and a few progressive ideas. No more, no less. If the news came out tomorrow that he had paid hush money to a porn star with his campaign money, I can assure you his approval rating with liberals would plummet. If a tape came out romorrow of him calling the president of Ukraine and offering him aid in exchange of dirt on his political opponents, I can assure you the vast majority of liberals would support his impeachment. I know I would.
SuperLib
"I don't know what planet these people are on."
Anonymous
There are many posters here who don’t think two things can be true at the same time.
(1) Some people forced their way into the Capitol building with ill intent though there is no evidence that they had murderous intent. These were the “insurrectionists”. Their incompetence isn’t an excuse. Incarceration isn’t inappropriate.
(2) Many more people demonstrated poor judgment by entering the Capitol not thinking (or wishing to think) that they were breaking any laws. These were the “tourists”. The first court case settled involving a “tourist” ended appropriately: a $500 fine, 40 hours of community service and 3 years probation.
The only reason the Democrats, the party of “healing”, and the legacy media want investigations to continue is to distract the electorate from issues that will certainly impact the 2022 Congressional election.
lincolnman
They all live on the Planet Delusion....
There, Hugo Chavez is still alive, Italian satellites change votes, and a guy that sells pillows accurately predicts the future...
And hundreds of maniacs carrying Trump banners, Confederate flags, and Q T-Shirts rampaging and pillaging the Capitol and chanting "hang Mike Pence" are just normal tourists...
Anonymous
Make that “incarceration IS appropriate”!
FizzBit
More MSM hogwash to feed the hogs.
Raw Beer
Yeah, deadly only because an unnamed cop shot an unarmed peaceful protestor.
Yeah, and there is also video showing the police letting people in and telling them they have the right to enter and protest as long as they are peaceful.
Of course there were a number of agent provocateur that ruined it all, and these are the ones they show. I hope they go deeply into the FBI's involvement in the violence.
Blacklabel
I read the news. Your turn, how do you know what you supposedly know?
Proud Boys leader was government informant, records show
https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-government-informant-dc84086d78b688bc585f874452d2b481
“Your Honor, frankly, in all the years, which is now more than 30 that I’ve been doing this, I’ve never had a client as prolific in terms of cooperating in any respect,” said Tarrio’s lawyer at the time, Jeffrey Feiler, according to the transcript.
Blacklabel
FBI and DHS Attempt To Recruit Former Green Beret to Infiltrate and Spy on Oath Keepers, Proud Boys – But He Recorded The Conversation.
didnt hear about this?
Blacklabel
oh lordy, I hope there are tapes!
Well, there ARE.
Checkmate.
lincolnman
Ah...the Tucker Carlson fool the fools conspiracy theory...it was all an FBI plot....
Unfortunately, that doesn't work when you have the Q Shaman and scores of other Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other miscreants all pleading now that they were "duped" by Trump and were a victim of "Foxitis"....
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/552285-lawyer-for-accused-capitol-rioter-says-client-had-foxitis-foxmania
Unfortunately an affliction that affects quite a few posters here...
Blacklabel
fits the narrative exactly that they would say that.
What do you expect them to say, that they were Antifa plants or FBI informants?
Lets see who actually goes to jail in the end. that will tell us who these people REALLY are.
The FBI involvement in Jan 6 is going to be next years "the virus did NOT come from the Wuhan Lab. impossible, absolutely no way, conspiracy!". by next year it will be "well we never said the FBI wasnt involved at alllllll...."
Express sister
Isn't this the same media you say we shouldn't trust? Make up your mind.
Blacklabel
The Associated Press is fine. is it not?
Express sister
You tell me. I thought it would be a member of the hated "MSM" whose agenda we cannot trust.
lincolnman
You just threw all your fellow Trump supporters under the bus - they went to DC on Jan 6th because Trump invited them all - then he told them to go to the Capitol and "fight like hell". And now, you accuse them all of being Antifa and BLM....
That's loyalty in MAGA-world...just ask Mike Pence...
Maybe they are all Deep State Lizards...ya think?
Sure, just like we'll soon hear all about those Italian satellites that changed votes, right?
Planet Delusion...
HonestDictator
The GOP and their cult of zealots are so immersed in sticking to their BIG LIE delusions, that they litterally can't tell the difference between their beliefs and reality. They have become lost causes. While they keep pushing their crazy on the rest of the world, we just have to just keep serving up reality and facts and let the department of Justice do it's job.
GOP: Party before country, facism before leadership, profit before people, power before the US constitution, lies before truth, hypocrisy before dignity, corruption before integrity, authoritarianism before democracy.... This is what they are, they will not change as they have gone well beyond the point of no return. Accept it and help exorcise this toxic cancer from our government. New major (and responsible) political parties need to take over... the Republican party is GONE... PERMANANTLY.
Ego Sum Lux Mundi
The more the Dems keep up the hysteria and witch hunts over this, the more conservative normies wake up to the fact that America as they knew it is long gone and that they will have to fight or die.
bass4funk
I support Trump, yes, but I’m not a top cop, so they had no excuse whatsoever, you don’t like the guy, vote him out, don’t undermine or try to frame and derail his presidency and then tell us years of 3 multiple failed attempts to oust him, think your credibility is worth something, it’s not.
No, they actually don’t.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/370122-another-software-upgrade-suppressing-evidence-is-fbi-standard-procedure
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4659574/user-clip-maxine-waters-fbi-credibility
Hmmmm, no they really don’t
bass4funk
I disagree vehemently.
Tell that to the msm, they didn’t get your memo.
ROFL!
Ok, that’s one liberal that would. Lol
SuperLib
Didn't you claim that the AP planted a story about NK and hackers here in JT? I remember it because I had to tell you it was a story by the APN, not the AP. May 28.
If you're going around accusing the AP of planting stories, I'd take a guess that you don't trust them.
ulysses
They did exactly that and he sent in his band of bigots and tried to overthrow the government.
Yes they do, maybe not to ignorant minds, but to everyone else they do!!!
SuperLib
Remember the story a few days ago saying the Antifa and BLM rallies were 97% peaceful? I remember Trump fans falling over themselves to say it's not fair that such groups are strictly defined by the violent ones.
Paul
Those Republicans are a disgrace to the human race!
Simon Foston
bass4funkToday 12:22 pm JST
Whereas if absolutely damning evidence emerged that incriminated Donald Trump in anything there's no way you would support convicting him, is there.
HonestDictator
I have dumbed it down to movies that describe what's happening.
The GOP is fearmongering a Democrat majority leads to a "Demolition Man" future with excessive progressive leaders such as Dr. Cocteau and they're Mr. Friendly
But they truly desire their own majority leadership to create the kind of futures you would see in every other film that features an oppressive big brother corpo/politico authoritarian regime such as Judge Dredd, Starship Troopers, Robocop, The Running Man, Death Race 2000 etc...