Thread by @mrbarnard1

I disagree about despot Trump failing to respond to the Jan. 6 #insurrection. He didn't fail to respond, he just didn't respond as "president," which he never truly was.

The Jan. 6 insurrection was, and still is, EVERYTHING to Trump because he cannot tolerate being a loser.
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2) He cannot accept that 81,000,000 Americans in the largest election turnout ever told him, “We don’t want you!” He was not going to simply watch his effort to become authoritarian tyrant fall apart.
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3) Instead, Trump holed up in private in our White House after he was not permitted to lead his insurrection in person at the Capitol. For three hours, he tried to make his insurrection succeed.
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4) It was known to be illegal. Therefore,

● No White House Call Logs.
● No photographer.
● No staff.
● He needed a list of phone numbers that were in his own phone.
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5) Trumpian Secret Service director Murray and former director Ornato (temporary Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations for Trump) orchestrated use of SS agents' phones by Trump as "burner phones" so he could surreptitiously command his insurrection during those three hours
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6) in our White House.

We have no more reason to trust the SS than did
●Mike Pence when refusing to get in the car, than did
●Joe Biden when replacing the agents around him, than did
●Chuck Grassley when he expected the Secret Service to swap him for Pence.
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7) Clearly, Murray and Ornato set up phones for Trump's use and then dutifully and officially had them "burned" to remove all evidence of Trump's treasonous commanding of his insurrection from inside our White House.
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8) Of course, they intimidated others, including the Inspector General, to keep their mouths shut about the burner phones.

As always, the delusional self-important “Commander in Chief” was completely inept in executing his insurrection and stupidly overestimated
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9) the abilities of his inadequate parlor-game militias.

Three hours in, he realized his precious insurrection was yet another of his failures. Only then did he stumble out and blather his announcement to his disappointing militias, "We love you!"
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10) (Reminder: Trump used his SS agent's phone to call Melania when she wouldn't answer his calls when the Stormy Daniels news broke. It was logical to him to grab others' phones.)
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11) (Reminder: Trump's "OPEN AMERICA!" war games a year earlier, when he sicced his lunatic armed militias against state houses, were successful. He learned his militias were true followers, and he learned attacks would be met with impunity.
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12) Those war games proved to Trump, et al., that he could succeed, making the ignorant wannabe-warlord over-confident that his precious insurrection could also be successful.)
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13) **WARNING**: These are lessons being taken to heart by the next, and better, tyrant. We must prevent that right now.

14) JUST IN: WHY Trump couldn't go to the Capitol: #FearNancy!
[‘I’m Gonna Punch Him Out’: Exclusive Footage Shows Pelosi Vowing to Clobber Trump on Jan. 6 If He Marches to the Capitol] ~ @Mediaite
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