10-14-2022, 01:58 PM
(10-14-2022, 09:46 AM)Duchess Wrote:(10-13-2022, 08:33 PM)rothschild Wrote: With respect to *when*, not if. The time to make the decision was BEFOREHAND, not after the violence had begun.
Only two people in DC have the power to summon the National Guard--POTUS and the Secretary of Defense. No one, and I mean no one, could get trump to do one damn thing in an effort to help those at the Capitol. He choose to watch it all go down and I don't doubt for a moment that he enjoyed every second of it.
If Pelosi felt that lives were at stake SWAT teams could have been called in or the police could have been ordered to open fire. You going to tell me that that would be excessive during an insurrection?
The National Guard wasn't the only effective option available considering how incredibly grave the situation was, right Duchess?