In the Spirit of Jefferson Davis (part nine)

 

Part nine.

 

At 2:21 in the afternoon, the Senate was forced to evacuated because of the violence closing in. They almost didn’t escape.

 

Here, a hero emerges. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman faced off with Terrorist and QAnon supporter Doug Jensen and a huge mob of Traitors directly behind him. Goodman shrewdly tricked the Terrorists into chasing him, away from the corridor that the Senators were being evacuated through. There’s video-selfies made by the Insurrectionists that actually show the fleeing Senators in the background, barely visible around a corner, unseen by the bloodthirsty mob surging in the complete opposite direction. Goodman probably avoided a blood-bath taking place.

 

And about a minute after that, White House Council Cipollone again pleads with Chief of Staff Meadows to convince Trump to intervene. Meadows responds by saying Trump "doesn't want to do anything" about the Insurrection, that he actually agrees with the Terrorists and Trump also “said something to the effect of, maybe Mr. Pence should be hung.” (Meadows denies this, but other witnesses support Cipollone’s version.)

 

Eastman, the Legal Scholar hammered out the detailed plan for Pence to destroy Democracy, Tweeted Pence’s Chief Counsel Jacob, and blamed Pence for the violence. “The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened.”

 

At 2:23 p.m. there was still fighting on the Capital’s Lower West Terrace outside the building. Officers held their line with a metal bike-rack. One of these Officers, Capital Police Officer Brian Sicknick, was blasted in the face with pepper-spray by Terrorists Julian Khater and George Tanios. Blinded, Sicknick retreated into the blinding. After about twenty-minutes, he eyes washed out, he thought he was fine. He wasn’t.

 

At 2:24 p.m, with the situation already desperate, Trump Tweeted a denouncement of Pence, “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”

 

 

The Traitors were avidly folling Trump’s Titter feed even as they were beating up the Police. They went wild (well, wilder) at that less message. They posted on Social Media, shouted, and chanted:

 

“Oh, Mike Pence? We're coming for you too you fucking traitor."

 

"Bring out Pence."

 

“Hang Mike Pence.”

 

There was a mock scaffold and noose for Pence carried through the streets, that could not have been built on-the-spot.

 

And Pence was not the only one’s specifically threatened:

 

"Can I speak to Pelosi? Yeah, we're coming, bitch.”

 

One man marching toward the Capitol on January 6, 2021, yelled “There’s no escape” as he rattled a list of names Democratic lawmakers that including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

 

Pence, himself, was hesitant to evacuate out of fear that Insurrectionists would feel vindicated if they saw him run. His Security Team repeatedly implore he depart, but even after they got him to a secure underground location in the Capitol with his limousine waiting, Pence said, "I'm not getting into that car."

 

Pence, finally, did evacuate, probably before 2:30. It was later established that at one point, he was within 40 feet of the Terrorists vowing to kill him.

 

At about this time, Trump had another phone conversation with Senator Tuberville. Even with his own Vice President’s life in jeopardy, Trump urged Tuberville to launch further objections to the Electoral Count.

 

Also, about the same time, Representative Greene, who was an advocate for the Big Lie and QAnon supporter, texted Chief of Staff Meadows, begging him to, "tell the President to calm people.”

 

Federal Representative Chip Roy, also an advocate for the Big Lie, Tweeted, “Fix this now.”

 

It was around this time the House also went into recess. Evacuating the Representatives proved riskier than the Senate. The Terrorists had already taken the main, joining, corridor, and Capital Police had to barricade the Chamber doors would soon have to threaten terrorists in that corridor with guns drawn. Some Lawmakers evacuated the Chambers successfully, but some of them, could find no location more secure than their own offices. Other remained trapped in the Chamber, and there are photos of them on their hands-and-knees, hiding from expected gunfire and some had donned gas masks.

 

Meanwhile, Mayor Brower has been involved with multiple calls, many of them conference calls, with the leadership of Federal Homeland Security, Capital Police, the Metropolitan Police Department, District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, D.C. National Guard, and the US Army. During these calls the she Capital Police demand immediate National Guard support, but the staff of the Sectary of the Army responded stated they were not comfortable sending the Guard to confront “peaceful protestors” without a comprehensive plan.

 

At 2:29 p.m. local Police Captain Glover, whose Officers had been repeatedly overwhelmed by the Traitorous mob on the Capitol’s west side, is finally given authorization to fall back, and provided a location to do so.

 

It was not till 2:30 p.m. that acting Sectary of Defense Miller met with representatives of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Army to discuss sending the National Guard in. He didn’t issue the order immediately.

 

At 2:32 p.m. FOX News Host Laura Ingraham, who had promoted of Trump's Big Lie, texted Chief of Staff Meadows that "the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home."

 

At almost the very moment, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (soon to become Senate Majority Leader) has a close encounter with the Terrorists, but like Senator Romney a few minutes earlier, escaped.

 

At 2:35 p.m.  Mick Mulvaney, who was Trump’s Chief of Staff before Meadows, texted Meadows, insisting Trump "needs to stop this, now."

 

Finally, at 2:38 p.m. Trump Tweeted that his Terrorist and Traitors should "stay peaceful," but it’s obviously too late for that. He doesn't tell them to retreat.

 

It was the Officers outside the building were mostly in retreat. Those on the West Terrace struggled both with getting all their men through the doors and then sealing the entranceway behind them. They almost didn’t succeed, and there’s graphic video of a local Police Officer trapped in the door, being crushed by the Terrorists trying to break through, screaming in agony.

 

 

The Terrorist group the Oath Keepers, using a "stack" formation suggesting they had practiced this together over previous weeks, and finally breach Capitol building on the east side. The flood of pro-Trump Insurrectionists appeared unstoppable.

 

Officers now mostly engaged in battle inside. Significant action took place as they tried to clear the crypt. That large space features statues donated from each of the original 13 Colonies, and back in 1909, Virginia had insisted that their statue be that of the Traitorous Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Late in the previous year, House Speaker Pelosi had successfully campaigned for its removal, one of the many things today’s Confederate Thugs hated her for. The Lee statue had yet to be removed, so he looked down upon those who followed in his footsteps, and those who followed in the footsteps of his enemy, martyred President Abraham Lincoln, still clashing more-than 150 years later. One of the Officers who fought in the Crypt said it “looked like something out of a Michael Bay movie, trash strewn everywhere, the air thick with smoke.”

 

Next to be cleared was the Capitol Rotunda. Now the battle took place beneath a 19th-century frieze depicting the Battle of Lexington.

 

The Insurrectionists engaged in vandalism and theft. They urinated and defecated in the public halls and offices they broke into.

 

At 2:39 p.m. Mayor Bower was on the phone coordinating with City and State Officials in Virginia and Maryland. They were cooperating with her, but most of the Federal response was still waiting on acting Sectary of Defense Miller.

 

At 2:42 p.m. the Representatives of the House Chamber’s Floor are successfully evacuated, but those in the Galley remained trapped.

 

Though some of the rioters were heavily armed, one thing that didn’t seem to happen within the Capitol was gun play by the Confederates. They had body armor, shield, clubs, and chemical agents which they used quite freely. They clearly some had firearms, but didn’t fire a shot.

 

The Speaker's Lobby is a long corridor situated directly outside the House Chamber. Officers managed to get its doors closed and locked before leading the Representatives from the Chamber’s Gallery into that hallway. But the doors had glass windows doors, and the Terrorist could see their targets on the other side of those doors.

 

At 2:44 p.m. Traitor and Terrorist Zachary Jordan Alam smashed a window open. Armed Officers with guns drawn warned them to stop advancing.

 

In the mob was Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force Veteran with a criminal history of road-rage against romantic rivals. She was wearing a Trump flag like a Superheroes cape, and shouted “Go! Go!” Two not-yet-identified men hoisted her through the broken window. Perhaps they thought the Officers wouldn’t shoot an unarmed woman, empowering them to over-run the hallway beyond the door.

 

One shot killed her.

 

Let me be very clear, had I been the Cop on the scene, I would’ve shot her too. Three different Law Enforcement agencies tasked with investigating the shooting and all cleared the Officer. Babbitt died a Traitor, Terrorist, and most importantly, a Fool. Her family will probably view me with disgust saying these things, but they would be concerned with the whole life of a woman. She was a stranger to me, my only concern regarding her is when she tried to over-throw our Democracy. She’s also a stranger almost everyone in the RWN community who now call her a “martyr.” As it happens, Trump is one of these.

 

Capital Officer Keith McFaden, who was in the thick of the fight all day, would learn of Babbitt’s death from his terrified wife, who was watching the Insurrection at home on TV. She texted him. Learning of the event that way, not from his own leadership, was, for him, emblematic of the complete break-down of command-and-control within the Capitol Police.

 

Representative Barry Loudermilk, another advocate for the Big Lie, texted Meadows that "It's really bad up here on the hill."

 

Ali Alexander, so instrumental in organizing this Coup, never stormed the Capital Building personally. Instead, he found comfortable spot with a panoramic view of the melee and filmed himself with the violence visible in the background. “I don’t disavow this. I do not denounce this.”

 

By 2:45 p.m. the Terrorists have broken into House Speaker Pelosi's office. Thankfully, she not there.

 

2:53 p.m. Donald Jr. texts Meadows, his misspelling might suggest he was panicking, "He's got to condem this shit. Asap. The captiol police tweet is not enough.” In a later Tweet he says, “We need an oval address. He has to lead now. It's gone too far and gotten out of hand."  Meadows replies, "I am pushing it hard. I agree."

 

House Minority Leader McCarthy was pleading on the phone to Trump to call off the mob, but Trump takes the side of the rioters, telling McCarthy that they seem to care more about the Election results than he does.

 

White House Aides draft a statement that would've condemned the violence and the illegal actions. It is never released.

 

White House Counsel Pat Cipollone tells Chief of Staff Meadows that Trump needs to take action to stop the riot, and that "something needs to be done or people are going to die."

 

Of course, someone was already dead. She wouldn’t be the last.

 

Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, made similar pleas in person. Pence's National Security Adviser, Kevin Kellogg, saw her emerging from the Oval Office twice and said to her, "You know, I just thought what you did was to me pretty heroic."

 

She replied, “Well, my dad's stubborn."

 

At 2:49, the gallery section of the House Chamber is successfully evacuated.

 

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, after escaping the House Chamber, locked herself the bathroom of her office. Worsening her terror of violence only yards aware was she own experience of sexual assault less than a decade earlier. She was completing her first term in office, and had already become a lightning-rod for the hatred of RWNs, frequent target of threats, and some of those who seemed to want to do her harm were her colleges in the House.

 

The previous July, out-going Representative Ted Yoho, another Big Lie advocate, interrupted her while conversing with Journalists, called her "disgusting" and "out of your freaking mind." She responded by calling him "rude." As he walked away, Journalists overheard Yoho calling her a "fucking bitch." Despite there being witnesses, Yoho denied at least some of this, and offer only the lamest of non-apologies.

 

Another important incident hadn’t yet happened yet, is demonstrative. The coming November, Representative Paul Gosar, yet another advocate of the Big Lie, had posted an altered anime video clip, showing himself murdering her and Biden. Gosar was officially censored for this but kept his job.  

 

Then she heard a fist banging on the door, and a male voice yelling, “Where is she?”

 

She couldn’t know it from her position, but that was a Capital Police Officer trying to rescue.

 

She later stated, “I experienced [during the Insurrection was] a culmination of the violent rhetoric, not a first time or a one-time spike in violent rhetoric.” In a different interview, asserted that "misogyny and the racism" had "animated" the "attack on the Capitol … White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways … There's a lot of sexualizing of that violence."

 

Later that same year, Senator Cruz, yet another advocate of the Big Lie, chose to mock her for saying she was scared of being raped and murdered.

 

By 3 p.m. Capital Police had the support of local Police, other Police from counties in two other States, and the FBI, but there still was no response from the acting Sectary of Defense Miller.