I was there out side in the crowd. The whole place was crawling with operatives working in pairs. Criers running back through the crowd trying to whip everyone up. Every cell tower around the National mall was being jammed down to barely 2G texting. From the moment I saw the “shaman” (jake) out in the crowd ensuring to appear on every camera he saw, an hour before the speech was scheduled, I told my girl then, “something smells fishy in DC today”. Most of us had no idea what had even happened until we got a mile or two from the mall and start getting bombarded by text from folks back home that believed the news story of a violent siege. I was all, “guys, why would the news start suddenly telling the truth now, about this? After lying to us for over a century?”
I was there out side in the crowd. The whole place was crawling with operatives working in pairs. Criers running back through the crowd trying to whip everyone up. Every cell tower around the National mall was being jammed down to barely 2G texting. From the moment I saw the “shaman” (jake) out in the crowd ensuring to appear on every camera he saw, an hour before the speech was scheduled, I told my girl then, “something smells fishy in DC today”. Most of us had no idea what had even happened until we got a mile or two from the mall and start getting bombarded by text from folks back home that believed the news story of a violent siege. I was all, “guys, why would the news start suddenly telling the truth now, about this? After lying to us for over a century?”