This thread captures the emerging “Reichstag Fire” theory that Pelosi purposefully rejected security so that the Capitol could be attacked. Unsure how her support for a 9/11 Commission-style probe fits into this
https://twitter.com/jmichaelwaller/status/1361404605008076802
Honestly, this feels inevitable. If an event seems to benefit one party politically, a conspiracy theory develops that the party secretly planned the event. Same fever dreams happened after Oklahoma City bombing, and more famously after 9/11.
Conspiracy theories also work better if they seem familiar. Pelosi giving some sort of “stand down” order to let a riot happen — shades of the “did Clinton issue a stand-down order and let Benghazi happen.” It’s a cozy conspiracy blanket.
If anyone reads this thread and asks “why am I against asking questions” — I’m not, I was pointing out that Pelosi endorses a commission to look into this, which makes the “what did she know and when did she know it?” stuff sound more like a diversion than a real question.
Skip ahead to 2022, where there are demands for a “Citizen’s Commission” investigating the attacks, to prove once and for all that Democrats let this riot happen to... uh... impeach Trump again and fail to convict him? I think that’s the upshot?
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