Yah maybe I need clarification what is being alluded to before I decide my tin foil hat fitting.
white house influence used to prevent additional staffing/preparation by capitol police; prevented/delayed efforts to reinforce with other law enforcement and security personnel.
I don't buy it at all. I don't think white house coordination was necessary. IMO they just took for granted that these dudes would do something like this. As I've said before this wasn't remotely close to the first time that these MAGA dudes gathered in Washington, and I'm certain the levels of security mirrored other gatherings. They went overboard in June and didn't come close to doing what needed to be done here. They didn't take the threats seriously and to be honest they had no reason to, these dudes have spent years talking crap without actually doing anything, we've mocked them on this board plenty for this.
I don't know why it's so hard to accept that the CP viewed a black lives matter gathering more threatening than a MAGQ gathering, but that's much more likely than Trump bullying non-partisan bureaucrats into not doing their job of protecting the capitol building and putting hundreds of government officials and their officers in extreme danger.
