Click here for a post on Substack by Steven Beschloss entitled "Snapshot: Accountability and Telling the Truth." It's his summary of the events of January 6, 2021.
He includes a quote from Mitch McConnell, Republican Senate Majority Leader at the time, who said:
January 6 was a disgrace. American citizens attacked their own government. They used terrorism to try to stop a specific piece of domestic business they did not like. Fellow Americans beat and bloodied our own police. They stormed the Senate floor. They tried to hunt down the Speaker of the House. They built a gallows and chanted about murdering the vice president.
They did this because they’d been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth, because he was angry he’d lost an election. Former President Trump’s actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty…There’s no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day, no question about it.
The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president. And having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole, which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth…
The leader of the free world cannot spend weeks thundering that shadowy forces are stealing our country and then feign surprise when people believe him and do reckless things.
McConnell is a swine who will go down in history as one of the worst of the worst, chief enabler of the Republican party as it made its disastrous transition to MAGA. But he spoke the truth that day.
I watched the events of that day, and I saw the crowd beating whatever Capitol police they could isolate and surround, baying for blood, chanting about Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence.
Donald Trump is making an all-out effort to reverse popular thinking about what happened on that day. Who are you going to believe, him or your lying eyes? Anyway, if Trump and MAGA get their way, the U.S. will no longer be celebrating July 4th as Independence Day; it will be replaced by January 6. That will be the day that MAGA celebrate their freedom. Lies, lies, lies -- they are flooding the media with their warped revisionist views.
Stephen Miller, who many say is the gray eminence behind the scenes, has gone full-on Nazi.Unless Trump and MAGA can be defeated -- wiped out -- the American experiment is over. It failed.
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