Testifying for the first time about the insurrection at the US Capitol, former security officials blamed faulty intelligence for the disastrous failure to anticipate the violent intentions of the mob that invaded the building and interrupted the certification of the US presidential election.
QAnon Followers Jump on U.S. Marshals Tweet About March 4 Inauguration
On 2/24/21 at 6:54 AM EST
The U.S. Marshals have been criticized for a tweet mentioning Abraham Lincoln s inauguration on March 4, 1861, as followers of the radical QAnon movement push baseless claims that Donald Trump will be reinstated as president on that date next week.
The federal agency has been accused of failing to realize the significance of mentioning March 4 and apparently legitimizing the conspiracy theorists predictions. On February 23, 1861, President-Elect Abraham Lincoln quietly slipped into Washington, D.C. to prepare for his inauguration on March 4, the U.S. Marshal s account tweeted on Tuesday. Accompanying him was U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon (D/DC), a friend and former law partner.
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Congress is set to hear from former U.S. Capitol security officials about the massive law enforcement failures on Jan. 6, the day a violent mob laid siege to the building .