September 11th, 2001 was an attack on American landmarks, and the government. The original plan was for the flights to go into WTC, Whitehouse, and probably the Capitol buildings. The 9/11 terrorists wanted to attack the symbols of our democracy and economy.
January 6th, 2021 was an attack on our democracy itself, but not just an attack on ‘symbols’. The attackers wanted to hold lawmakers hostage. When they saw Trump’s tweets that Mike Pence was not ‘going along with their plan’ they seek to harm Mike Pence chanting ‘Where’s Mike Pence’. They did not make any attempts to hide their plans to occupy Capitol.
After the attacks on September 11th, 2001, George W. Bush, the President of the United States, announced that America was under attack. He addressed the nation with a solemn speech.
Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts.
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A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining. Today, our nation saw evil -- the very worst of human nature -- and we responded with the best of America. With the daring of our rescue workers, with the caring for strangers and neighbors who came to give blood and help in any way they could.
How did Donald Trump respond to the terrorist attacks on the US Capitol?
I know your pain, I know you're hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don't want anybody hurt.
It's a very tough period of time. There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened where they could take it away from all of us — from me, from you, from our country. This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil.
I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.
“We love you? “— who is ‘we’, and why do the terrorists need to be loved?
“You're very special.” — can you imagine GW Bush saying this to Mohammed Atta or his followers after he flew airplanes into the World Trade Center?
“I know how you feel,”- what if Franklin Delano Roosevelt said this to Japanese kamikaze fighters after the attacks on Pearl Harbor?
Oh, about that big difference between 9/11/2001 and 1/6/2021?
September 11th, 2001 was orchestrated by Usama bin Ladin, who was a founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda, designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union, and various countries. (source)
January 6th, 2021 was orchestrated by Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of The United States, the President who swore the following oath of office
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Instead of preserving the constitution, he seeks to damage it by overthrowing the elections.
“We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that is what this is all about. And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal. …
“You will have an illegitimate president. That is what you will have, and we can’t let that happen. These are the facts that you won’t hear from the fake news media. It’s all part of the suppression effort. They don’t want to talk about it. They don’t want to talk about it. …
“We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
Instead of protecting the constitution, he planned to harm it with his seditious acts.
Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. … We are going to the Capitol, and we are going to try and give — the Democrats are hopeless, they are never voting for anything, not even one vote, but we are going to try — give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re try — going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”
Instead of defending the constitution, he attacked it by calling for armed rioters to go to the Capitol, with violent imagery, inciting violence,
“Republicans are constantly fighting like a boxer with his hands tied behind his back. It’s like a boxer. And we want to be so nice. We want to be so respectful of everybody, including bad people. And we’re going to have to fight much harder. …
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”