21 Oct 2021 10:32 am
Have you ever heard of bravado? Men talk like that, not that I'd expect you to understand how men talk, Sally..Blackvegetable » 21 Oct 2021, 9:29 am » wrote: ↑That is all extraordinarily damning, but if Trump was actually involved in organizing an assault on the Capitol, if a sitting president coordinated an insurrection against the country, that's an even greater crime.
Trump had summoned supporters to Washington -- Big protests in DC on January 6th, he tweeted in December, "...will be wild." At the rally that day, he sent their emotions to a boil with a fiery speech -- "fight like hell" he told them -- and then encouraged them to head to the Capitol.
But what about Trump? What did he know?
In their book "Peril," journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reported that Bannon, who had once been Trump's leading strategist, spoke with Trump ahead of January 6 and told him he should be in Washington that day. He told the then-president, "We are going to kill it in the crib. Kill the Biden presidency in the crib." According to the authors, Bannon told Trump, "We're going to bury Biden...f---ing bury him."
Ibid.