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> Another video showed a police officer allowing a rioter to take a selfie with him inside the Capitol

The alternative for that officer was violence. While surrounded.

The lies coming out of the media (which normally lie he took the selfie with the protesters) at the moment are insane.

Sure, "Trump deliberately attempted a coup".... because he's mentally ill.

But the media is actually pulling off a real coup by consistently implying it was even close to happening. Feeding "Multiple European security officials" who feed them back.

How did the "5 people dead" reported from the media actually die out of interest? We know one, filmed from many angles, all the rest? These ongoing media lies are outrageous.

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https://www.cbs58.com/news/what-we-know-about-the-4-deaths-i...

One person was shot by police. As for the other three:

"One adult female and two adult males appear to have suffered from separate medical emergencies, which resulted in their deaths," Contee said. "Any loss of life in the District is tragic and our thoughts are with anyone impacted by their loss."

At least one one those medical emergencies was simply a heart attack. And possibly another from an accidental fall from scaffolding, though the article says police were unclear. Doesn't sound like violence had anything to do with them, at least directly. If it did, I'd expect that to be made clear.

Trump was actually hoping the entire gravy seal battalion would suffer coronaries on the walk to the capitol building, it's the only way he gets out of this without the mob turning on him.

Think about it, Trump invites these gas bags to the white house, and then gets em all riled up about something or other, then tells them to march to the capitol? That's 9 miles away! A march of that length is practically a death sentence for a lot of these patriots! Trump is playing 4d chess as always.

Sure, some of them may have rascals or walkers to lean on, but that march might as well be 40 years in the desert. Stumbling, out of breath, leaving a trail of high capacity ar-15 mags emblazoned with the cross, and dragging a confederate flag through the mud like a starving sauropod's tail, just after the meteor.

Trump new exactly what he was doing. Exercise for Americans!? He's bold,you got to give him that.

Just want to correct you. The march from the White House to Capitol Hill is only about 2 miles. Still probably was too far for some of the insurrectionists...

A lot of people are saying that Trump gallantly led the march in a few unnecessary loops before they arrived at the capitol.

Yeah he had the presidential limo pacing ahead of crowd while he dangled one luscious, bizarrely hairless orange leg out an open door to keep up their spirits.

Boring articles don't get shared. Outrageous ones do. It's just businesses

Trump led the attack, and has motivated an insurgency. The coup is the cooperation between insurgents and the security force. That's why the media is covering the selfie.

Trump is currently not mentally-ill enough to be unfit for the Presidency. Of course, that's decided at the Capitol, so it may change after he directed violence toward it.

And Fox News agrees with other outlets about the circumstances of five deaths.

This article is about NATO contemplating what it would mean to bring financial sanctions against the USA under the circumstances of a successful coup.

> Trump is currently not mentally-ill enough to be unfit for the Presidency. Of course, that's decided at the Capitol, so it may change after he directed violence toward it.

No, it's decided in the White House Cabinet Room (well, metaphorically; by the VP and Cabinet, wherever they are located) initially, under the 25th Amendment; Congress isn't involved until he says he's all better after he's been temporarily removed, where if the Cabinet disagrees Congress resolves the dispute.

Whether he is too criminal to continue in office is decided in the Capitol, through the impeachment process, though.

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