Donald Trump and his GOP defenders are attempting to rewrite historical past of the violent and lethal riot on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, all in an effort to inoculate Trump from criticism after he pardoned 1,500 insurrectionists, together with lots of who violently assaulted regulation enforcement officers.
In an interview with Fox Information sycophant Sean Hannity that aired Wednesday night time, Trump defended his unpopular pardons by falsely declaring that the regulation enforcement assaults “had been very minor incidents.”
Additionally on Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson introduced the creation of a brand new committee to analyze the Jan. 6 assault, giving Republicans an avenue to unfold disinformation about who was accountable regardless of it being Trump’s fault.
“We are establishing this select subcommittee to continue our efforts to uncover the full truth that is owed to the American people,” Johnson mentioned in a press release, as if we do not have hours of video tape displaying what occurred and hours of interviews with witnesses who say Trump is in charge.
CNN reported that it’s Trump himself who requested for the committee, so it is no shock that lap canine Johnson acquiesced to Pricey Chief’s command.
In the meantime, Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, went to the jail in Washington, D.C., the place lots of the violent offenders had been being held and declared she wished to be the primary to provide them a tour of the Capitol that they had defiled 4 years earlier.
One of many males launched from that jail has already been rearrested on gun prices. Nice going, guys! A lot for making the streets safer.
Proper-wing white supremacist Stewart Rhodes, whose sentence Trump commuted, was additionally already seen on the Capitol on Wednesday, and met with Florida GOP Rep. Gus Bilirakis. Rhodes, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 18 years in jail, was caught on tape after the riot saying, “My only regret is they should have brought rifles. We should have brought rifles. We could have fixed it right then and there. I’d hang fucking Pelosi from the lamppost.”
“I think it’s new and interesting that they’re using the front door this time,” Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, a member of the now-defunct committee that probed the Jan. 6 assault, advised The Related Press.
Judges who oversaw the trials of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists are aghast at Trump’s pardons, issuing blistering statements decrying the choice.
Decide Tanya Chutkan, who oversaw Trump’s federal case on his effort to steal the 2020 election, wrote in a choice dismissing the case in opposition to one of many insurrectionists that Trump’s pardons “cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake. And it cannot repair the jagged breach in America’s sacred tradition of peacefully transitioning power.”
The Fraternal Order of Police, the union that endorsed Trump’s reelection bid, additionally slammed Trump’s transfer, saying in a assertion that the union “firmly believe[s] that those convicted of such crimes should serve their full sentences.” If solely that they had a trace forward of time that Trump was going to pardon violent cop assaulters.
However few Republicans are talking out, and are as an alternative both enjoying dumb or enjoying a ridiculous whataboutism recreation to keep away from having to criticize Trump’s vile resolution.
“We’re not wanting backwards, we’re wanting forwards,” Johnson mentioned on Wednesday, including that he wasn’t going to “second guess” Trump’s pardons—as if his job doesn’t embrace oversight of the chief.
However it positive doesn’t seem to be launching a committee to reopen the investigation into the Jan. 6 assault in an effort to attempt to persuade Individuals that they didn’t see what they noticed is a forward-looking transfer.
