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GOP lies about Jan. 6 are getting bolder -- and more dangerous
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/gop-lies-about-jan-6-are-getting-bolder-more-dangerous-n1267178?icid=msd_topgrid. . .
A hearing on Wednesday in the House Oversight and Reform Committee was meant to get some answers to the many questions about what was going on inside the Trump administration on Jan. 6 as the mob tried to stop the count of electoral votes. Unfortunately, the star witnesses of the day, former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller and former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, were less informative than hoped. Miller in particular walked back his written testimony during his opening statement, refusing to say Trump had incited the protesters that day.
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"There was no insurrection,” Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., said. “To call it an insurrection is a bold-faced lie.” He also said the only insurrection he’s witnessed in Washington was … the Russia investigation.
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"It was Trump supporters who lost their lives that day, not Trump supporters who were taking the lives of others," Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., likewise stated. It’s worth noting that Hice is running for Georgia secretary of state, trying to replace Brad Raffensperger, who refused to declare Trump the winner in the state last year. Hice has Trump’s backing in the race.
And Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., to nobody’s surprise, went further, saying the Department of Justice’s prosecution of the people who stormed the Capitol is “harassing peaceful patriots."
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The nation went through a severe trauma on Jan. 6. And like all trauma, it can’t just be willed away or made as though it never happened if it just isn’t talked about. As much as some Republicans who know better hope and wish that was the case — that Trump’s social media ban or Cheney’s punishment for heresy means they won’t have to confront the fact that he sent a mob to hurt them so he would remain in power — that’s not how this works.
As they say, hurt people hurt others. The members of the caucus who were afraid on Jan. 6 are still afraid today. They’re afraid of losing office in the next election, afraid of the base turning on them, afraid of missing an opportunity to advance their own personal power. And that fear is primed to hurt a lot of people in the coming years.
A hearing on Wednesday in the House Oversight and Reform Committee was meant to get some answers to the many questions about what was going on inside the Trump administration on Jan. 6 as the mob tried to stop the count of electoral votes. Unfortunately, the star witnesses of the day, former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller and former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, were less informative than hoped. Miller in particular walked back his written testimony during his opening statement, refusing to say Trump had incited the protesters that day.
...
"There was no insurrection,” Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., said. “To call it an insurrection is a bold-faced lie.” He also said the only insurrection he’s witnessed in Washington was … the Russia investigation.
...
"It was Trump supporters who lost their lives that day, not Trump supporters who were taking the lives of others," Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., likewise stated. It’s worth noting that Hice is running for Georgia secretary of state, trying to replace Brad Raffensperger, who refused to declare Trump the winner in the state last year. Hice has Trump’s backing in the race.
And Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., to nobody’s surprise, went further, saying the Department of Justice’s prosecution of the people who stormed the Capitol is “harassing peaceful patriots."
. . .
The nation went through a severe trauma on Jan. 6. And like all trauma, it can’t just be willed away or made as though it never happened if it just isn’t talked about. As much as some Republicans who know better hope and wish that was the case — that Trump’s social media ban or Cheney’s punishment for heresy means they won’t have to confront the fact that he sent a mob to hurt them so he would remain in power — that’s not how this works.
As they say, hurt people hurt others. The members of the caucus who were afraid on Jan. 6 are still afraid today. They’re afraid of losing office in the next election, afraid of the base turning on them, afraid of missing an opportunity to advance their own personal power. And that fear is primed to hurt a lot of people in the coming years.
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