If the Business insider article is correct as to an attempt to have Pelosi killed Jan 6th, all those who supported the Jan 6th invasion are complicit

To put it mildly, this is not a game. Those who minimize the seriousness of the attack and who support it are by extension exposing themselves to enormous, existential legal hazard and retribution.

Again the adage, innocent until proven guilty needs to be adhered to, but the mere though that the 2nd and 3rd members of the USG in the presidential line of succession may have been targeted for death, due to a mob incited by the inflammatory oratory of both D.J. Trump and Giuliani needs to be taken as legal dynamite.

If Impeachment does not yield a conviction, I am certain that other legal remedies as to this attack upon the senior personnel of our nation needs to be looked at as it is, an outright insurrection and treason to the US Constitution.

We cannot let the right wing minimize this as "business as usual". On January 6th, the US Government nearly died, in cold blood, and we only missed a massacre by the Grace of God.

That is true, but we nearly got the most ignorant treasonous holders of power imaginable. Don't let the Insurrectionists as of January 6th hold power, for the reason Bertrand Russell outlines.

See the article

https://www.businessinsider.com/raskin-recalled-us-capitol-riots-attack-attempt-against-pelosi-pence-2021-1

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Rep Jamie Raskin says an 'assassination party' of insurrectionists hunted Pelosi and Pence during Capitol siege

Taylor Ardrey 3 hours ago

House Impeachment Managers Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) (R) and Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) wear protective masks while walking to the House Floor during a vote on the impeachment of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on January 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. Stefani Reynolds/Getty Image

• Rep. Jamie Raskin on Sunday said US Capitol rioters were violently seeking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence during the Capitol siege on January 6.
• "They built a gallows outside the Capitol of the United States," Raskin said in an interview on CNN's State of the Union with Jake Tapper Sunday. "There was an assassination party hunting for Nancy Pelosi."
• Raskin is the lead impeachment manager against President Donald Trump who on Wednesday faced a second impeachment for "incitement of insurrection."
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Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin said the US Capitol riot was "an attack on our country" and recalled how pro-Trump rioters violently sought out Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the Capitol breach earlier this month.

In an interview on CNN's State of the Union Sunday, Raskin said he heard rioters calling and chanting to "hang Mike Pence" outside the building where lawmakers had gathered to certify the presidential election results. 

"They built a gallow outside the Capitol building of the United States," Raskin said. "There was an assassination party hunting for Nancy Pelosi."

The Jan. 6 breach forced lawmakers to immediately evacuate the building and seek safety as the pro-Trump supporters wandered throughout the building. More than 100 people were arrested for their involvement including Richard Barnett who took pictures at Pelosi's desk and Adam Christian Johnson who was seen holding Pelosi's lectern.

On Jan. 14, Trump was impeached by the Democratic-controlled House for "incitement of insurrection" of the Capitol riots, which resulted in the deaths of five people including a Capitol Police officer. 

When asked about the timeline for the articles of impeachment, Raskin responded, "I know that everybody wants to focus on trial tactics and strategy and so on. I want people to focus on the solemnity and gravity of these events. Five Americans are dead because a violent mob was encouraged, exhorted, and incited by the President of the United States of America."

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Also see this

https://www.newyorker.com/news/video-dept/a-reporters-footage-from-inside-the-capitol-siege

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A Reporter’s Footage from Inside the Capitol Siege

By The New Yorker

January 17, 2021

Luke Mogelson followed Trump supporters as they forced their way into the Senate chamber.

When Luke Mogelson attended President Donald Trump’s speech on the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., on January 6th, he was prepared for the possibility that violence might erupt that day. Mogelson, a veteran war correspondent and a contributing writer at The New Yorker, had spent the previous ten months reporting on the radical fringe of Trump supporters, from anti-lockdown militias to fascist groups such as the Proud Boys. After Election Day, he interviewed Trump supporters who showed up at ballot-tabulation sites, and who believed the President’s lies that the results had been “rigged” and his victory “stolen.” At one post-election pro-Trump rally in D.C., Mogelson witnessed racist violence against Black residents of the nation’s capital. At another event, he watched the host of the white-supremacist Web program “America First” declare, “Our Founding Fathers would get in the streets, and they would take this country back by force if necessary. And that is what we must be prepared to do.”

After Trump’s incendiary speech, Mogelson followed the President’s supporters as they forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, using his phone’s camera as a reporter’s notebook. What follows is a video that includes some of that raw footage. Mogelson harnessed this material while writing his panoramic, definitive report, “Among the Insurrectionists,” which the magazine posted online on Friday. (It appears in print in the January 25th issue.) His prose vividly captures how the raging anger and violence of the initial breach of the Capitol was followed by an eerily quiet and surreal interlude inside the Senate chamber, where Mogelson watched people rummaging through desks and posing for photographs. Although the footage was not originally intended for publication, it documents a historic event and serves as a visceral complement to Mogelson’s probing, illuminating report.

Click here to read “Among the Insurrectionists.”

Read More About the Attack on the Capitol

• Donald Trump, the Inciter-in-Chief.
• He must be held accountable.
• An Air Force combat veteran was part of the mob in the Senate.
• The invaders enjoyed the privilege of not being taken seriously.
• The crisis of the Republican Party has only begun.
• A Pelosi staffer recounts the breach.
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FTR

We cannot let the right wing minimize this as "business as usual". On January 6th, the US Government nearly died, in cold blood, and we only missed a massacre by the Grace of God.

Andrew Beckwith, PhD