Most everyone saw the riot of Wednesday January 6, 2021 in Washington DC. If you were watching the reports from CBC, CTV, CNN, you will have been engaged in their liberal slant in reporting. I didn't see any "conservative" news media reactions so I have at this time no idea what they are saying.
So here is my take on what I saw. It is important that I tell you now I don't like Mr. Trump, and I don't subscribe to his kind of political agenda. I am not going to re-express what others have called him or are calling him in the liberal media even though their comments are valid.
First of all, the riot was not a "coup" as CNN, CBC, and CTV have suggested. Even this morning as I watched some further reporting, I have noticed that photos and video clips appear to have been selectively chosen to express their points of view.
What I saw in the people marching, protesting, demonstrating, fell into three categories. The first category are the many seniors, middle aged people, married couples, etc. who believed that they were at an ordinary political rally, there to voice their opinion like so many others have done including the crowds of black lives matter. Many of these people were milling about, not really engaged in the process, nor really taking it all in. They were just there exercising their political civil rights.
The second category I saw were those who were there for the ride as it were. They were followers with no real agenda but to follow the leader and wanting to be seen as being there. They followed the first category and engaged in the "excitement of the moment" that was created when the damage began.
The last category are the ones who were there, up front, at the doors. It doesn't matter if they were Antifa thugs or not. It doesn't matter if they were "Proud Boys" or "neo-Nazis". They were there with one agenda and that was to cause damage and see how far they could go before they would be forced out. This group is also the first to start the motion going and the first to flee.
In viewing each group you could see the difference of each category on their faces. It was quite apparent in the second and first categories. Once the Capital Building was invaded, there was mass confusion as to what next to do. Those who made it to the various chambers entered in and then stood there not sure what to do next. There was confusion on their faces as to "What do we do now". The members of the legislatures were already spirited out of the chamber and their offices. Some looked through the desks, looked at some papers and then left. It was obvious they hadn't a clue as to what they were doing there.
This group of people were easily herded out of the building. Then there were the ones that ran up and down the hallways. Once they had accomplished their running up and down the halls, they too seemed to just look around and say "What now?". There was no leadership (if you want to call it that) in this mob expression of something. It wasn't long before they too were slowly making their way out of the building.
There were some who looted and destroyed property and not just the windows. These individuals were on camera as well as cell phone photos, and I am sure they will be sought out, charged, and/or arrested for their actions and acts of vandalism and thievery. But this was no coup no matter how the left wishes to spin the bottle and doctor up their ideas.
In order for this to be see as a coup, there has to be leadership and there wasn't. In order for it to be a coup, there had to be someone or a group of individuals who were in charge and for example, would have stayed in the chambers and declared themselves as taking over the government. There would have to have been someone or a group of individuals who would have occupied the chambers, sitting in the chairs and declaring that they were now the government. None of this took place. Those who stormed the building disappeared just as fast they invaded the building. What was left were people who had no idea what they were doing. There was no organized leadership present.
Those who smashed windows, and broke down doors, left just as quickly as they entered. They did their rampage up and down the halls, saw that nothing available to latch onto and therefore left just as quickly as they entered. The building was cleared and secured with in an hour of the invasion taking place, and with in the next hour the whole property was in the hands of the various police and national guard agencies.
To give Trump credit as being the leader of this "coup" is totally misleading. His speeches encouraged the protesting people to march on the Capital. The suggestion of "fighting" was in the rhetoric that was used, but at no time did Trump leave the White House and at no time did he explicitly tell the people to engage in riot activity. Yes he appear to have supported and patted the heads of those engaged in the riot, but that's about it. His actions were and are questionable and the 25th Amendment needs to be acted upon.
In short, there was no leadership even from Trump so this can hardly be called a "coup" in the meaning of the term.
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