In for a penny, in for a pound: Sen. Ron Johnson hopes someone will believe that the rioters who marched from a Trump rally to the Capitol on 1.6 weren’t Trump supporters at all. (Most likely, he does not expect rational people to believe this; he hopes to soothe the feelings of the irrational faction…
Insurrection
Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, Crime, Disinformation, Fellow Traveler, Insurrection, Politics, Sen. Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson: ‘No Enemies to the Right’?
by JOHN ADAMS •
During an interview yesterday, Sen. Ron Johnson declared of the Capitol riot that ‘this didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.’ Tim Elfrink reports that As a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol last month, rioters battered police with a multitude of weapons: metal flagpoles, baseball bats, wrenches and clubs. Many soaked police in caustic…
America, Congress, Crime, Disinformation, Insurrection, Medicine, Republicans, Trump, Trumpism
Eyes Averted
by JOHN ADAMS •
As video of Capitol riot played, some GOP senators turned away: Almost every senatorial eye in the chamber was glued to the screens as lead House manager Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) played a 13-minute video depicting the events of Jan. 6 to introduce the impeachment case against Trump — with a few notable exceptions. While the…
Alt-Right, Crime, Horde, Insurrection, Trump, Trumpism, Video, Violence
A Reporter’s Footage from Inside the Capitol Siege
by JOHN ADAMS •
Luke Mogelson [of The New Yorker] followed Trump supporters as they forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, using his phone’s camera as a reporter’s notebook. Read Luke Mogelson’s original report, Among the Insurrectionists. See also Transcript of Rioters’ Remarks.