Trump normalized violence.

BidenPresident said:
The Trump that watched the violence in the Capitol from the White House for 3 hours refusing to call the National Guard.
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The second problem with the D.C. Guard’s command structure came to vivid light on Jan. 6. As rioters breached the U.S. Capitol and threatened the safety of lawmakers and others inside the district, the mayor of Washington, D.C. was not able to deploy D.C.’s own Guard to assist. Instead, she had to ask the D.C. Guard’s Commanding General for help, who then had to request authorization from the Secretary of the Army. This needlessly bureaucratic process took hours
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https://www.brennancenter.org/our-w...d-be-controlled-its-mayor-not-president-trump

1) this should not have taken hours

2) the President need have nothing to do with it.
 
BidenPresident said:
Trump refused to call the National Guard and watched the violence on TV.
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So what? I just pointed out how the guard could have been called out without him ordering it. I argue that law enforcement was so poor exactly because what happened was what the Revolution wanted to happen, it was what they designed over the weeks before in their social media manipulations.
 
The Army major general testified that the day before the insurrection, he received a letter with an "unusual" restriction on deploying any quick-reaction force service members unless granted explicit approval by then-Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy.

"I found that requirement to be unusual, as was the requirement to seek approval to move guardsmen supporting the Metropolitan Police Department to move from one traffic control point to another," Walker said.

"They didn't like the optics"

Walker said that Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt and Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn were concerned about the optics of sending the National Guard to the scene of the uprising. He told the senators that there were concerns that the presence of uniformed troops might "inflame" the protesters.

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He said Piatt and Flynn relayed to him: "It wouldn't be their best military advice to send uniformed guardsmen to the Capitol because they didn't like the optics. And they had also said that it could 'inflame' [the protesters]."
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https://www.npr.org/2021/03/03/9732...guard-request-during-capitol-riot-commander-s
 
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