Not sure I would reduce it to that level since one protestor was killed but it is certainly not at the level the media is making it out to be.
Was killed by a government employee.
It may be the level the Dems claim but not in the way they claim or by the people they claim. According to this, it looks like those behind not the rally where Trump was speaking, but rather, behind the mob already in action at the capital, consisted of more than one group, and both the FBI and NYPD knew enough about some of these groups to disrupt at least some of these groups’ travel plans to prevent them from reaching the area or carrying out their goals.
What is not known is if Pelosi and Mitch were given this info.
The question we and the media should be curious about is which groups were known aforehand to be involved in planning or participating in this attack [which was designed to disrupt proceedings right as the Republicans were about to present their side] , and which of the groups were planning on using intelligence gathered about the building by unknown individuals [scouts, or else insiders] and had in mind individual targets whose locations should not have been generally known and harder to reach.
I’m thinking Pelosi’s panic could be her possibly knowing the disruption plans were made well before Trump’s speech, were never carried out in full because they had been discovered, and, not knowing what an investigaion is going to eventually turn up, got scared. If this was a Dem op, or an assault planned by groups dems have supported in the past openly or discretely, it is critical for the dems to consolidate power quickly so as to neutralize the investigation before it gets rolling too far, and fire and replace as many investigators as possible.
The riot was supposed to be much bigger than it was but some groups didn’t arrive to join in. Were these groups conservative or liberal, anarchists, domestic tinfoil conspiracy nuts, or backed by foreigners? Awaits to be seen.