Why isn’t she doing something about it?
Former president Donald Trump voiced regret Wednesday over not marching to the U.S. Capitol the day his supporters stormed the building, and he defended his long silence during the attack by claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were responsible for ending the deadly violence.
“I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why isn’t she doing something about it? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi doing something about it? And the mayor of D.C. also. The mayor of D.C. and Nancy Pelosi are in charge,” Trump said of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in a 45-minute interview with The Washington Post. “I hated seeing it. I hated seeing it. And I said, ‘It’s got to be taken care of,’ and I assumed they were taking care of it.”
Pelosi and the rest of Congress and their staffs were in hiding from the violent lunatics Trump had unleashed on them. They were trying not to get killed. Trump was sitting on his fat ass in the White House watching it happen on tv, loving every second of it.
During the attack, Trump watched television, criticized then-Vice President Mike Pence and made calls pushing lawmakers to overturn the election as the violent mob of his supporters ransacked the Capitol. He was eventually persuaded by lawmakers, family members and others to release a video asking his supporters to go home — 187 minutes after he urged them to march to the Capitol during a rally near the White House. He was described by advisers as excited about the event.
Of course he was.
The former president praised organizers of the rally, some of whom have now received subpoenas from federal authorities, and repeatedly bragged about the size of the crowd on the Ellipse, when questioned about the events of Jan. 6.
“The crowd was far bigger than I even thought. I believe it was the largest crowd I’ve ever spoken to. I don’t know what that means, but you see very few pictures. They don’t want to show pictures, the fake news doesn’t want to show pictures,” he said. “But this was a tremendous crowd.”
I can’t stand the stupidity. I know that’s far from the worst thing about him, but I can’t stand it.
Trump also delved into foreign policy, lashing into NATO for not doing more to help Ukraine — Trump has repeatedly lampooned the organization — and said he’d threatened NATO leaders during a 2018 meeting in Brussels, a notion his advisers denied vigorously at the time.
“A lot of people are a little bit surprised, I think they’re very impressed with Ukraine, but they’re not impressed with what NATO is doing, because a lot of people think NATO could be doing more,” Trump said, speaking in general terms.
You know, Trump’s good friend Alotta Peeple, who always thinks exactly what Trump thinks.
When asked whether he had changed his mind on Ukraine, a country he regularly criticized as president, he began speaking about his impeachment trial that was launched after he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden’s son Hunter Biden and find an email server.
“I liked Zelensky from the beginning for one reason. When we had the impeachment hoax, based on a perfect phone call, he totally backed me up, and I didn’t ask him to do that. They asked him, and he said, he absolutely did nothing wrong,” Trump said. “He said there was no quid pro quo. He didn’t even know what his people were talking about. He thought they were crazy. … So I gained great respect for him there.”
Jesus christ. The Post asked him about Ukraine and the war going on there, and he answers with what Zelensky did for him. He should be glued to the floor and beaten to death with ugly neckties.
But I believe when you see massive election fraud, I can’t imagine that somebody who won the election based on fraud, that something doesn’t happen? How has it not happened? If you are a bank robber, or you’re a jewelry store robber, and you go into Tiffany’s and you steal their diamonds and get caught, you have to give the diamonds back,” he said.
Trump’s stolen a lot of money over the years. Some of it he stole from workers and contractors he refused to pay for work done.
Glued to the floor, I tell you. Get the neckties ready.
Oh no! Not the . . . COMFY CHAIR!!!
OB, I hate to have to be the one who tells you this, but you could be in there for a long haul.
Above all, stay calm. Does Trump have a counsellor? I mean, apart from Stormy Daniels? Maybe he, she, it (or maybe a transcombination of all possible sexual classifications) could help. (Maybe also Stormy Daniels also.) Best leave no stone unturned. After all, your problem seems to start and end with Trump, and could follow you through the next presidential election just as doggedly as that crocodile followed Captain Hook in the Adventures of Peter Pan and Wendy.
Hope this helps. ;-)