Appalling new video of the rioters is a big problem for Trump's GOP enablers

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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
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Jan 18, 2021
Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley are playing a slimy game: They're disowning the insurrection without retracting their support for the big lie that incited it. But they have a problem: New video shows unambiguously that the lie did drive the assault. My latest:

Opinion | Appalling new video of the rioters is a big problem for Trump’s GOP enablers
Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley cannot memory-hole their despicable validation of lies about the election.
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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Some choice quotes from new video reported by @NewYorker and @propublica:

“I think Cruz would want us to do this."

“There’s a f---ing million of us out there. And we are listening to Trump.”

“We’re coming for you, f---ing traitor."

https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/18/video-evidence-capitol-cruz-hawley/…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/18/video-evidence-capitol-cruz-hawley/

In the days after President Trump instigated a violent mob assault on the Capitol, his most craven enablers have frantically searched for a political sweet spot: They’ve tried to condemn the violence without retracting or apologizing for their active role in sustaining the big lie that incited it.

This will become a lot harder to pull off, thanks to appalling new video of the rioters brought to us by the New Yorker and by ProPublica.

The footage illustrates with great force just how tightly bound up that big lie — that the election was illegitimate — was in the rioters’ motivations. The enablers of this lie badly want to flush this truth down the memory hole.

The enablers here are Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri. They prominently led Trump’s charge to object to Joe Biden’s electors in Congress, which constituted an effort to invalidate millions of votes and overturn the results.

Cruz is directly mentioned in the video filmed by the New Yorker’s Luke Mogelson. It depicts two men rummaging through a lawmaker’s papers in the Capitol.
“There’s gotta be something we can f---ing use against these scumbags,” one says.
“I think Cruz would want us to do this,” the second man says soon after. “I think we’re good.”

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[BrightKnight]

1. Many of the people are very clear about who told them to do it. - nt