Trump still says his supporters weren't behind the Jan. 6 attack -- but I was there - Lauren Hodges
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https://www.npr.org/2022/01/02/1068891351/january-6-insurrection-capitol-attack-trump-anniversa"I was standing amid thousands of Trump supporters on the lawn rising up to the Washington Monument," says NPR's Tom Bowman. "Then Trump came on stage to raucous applause."
Bowman was reporting from the "Save America" rally in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6. Up until the point when former President Trump began speaking, the rally held a festive air, almost like a football game, he said.
But things were different at the Capitol building, where I was standing with Hannah Allam, NPR's extremism reporter. The far-right group the Proud Boys had just shown up and were organizing a crowd to head for the rally. We had quietly embedded ourselves with them as they began to walk west on Pennsylvania Avenue.
As it was unfolding, we asked one of the rioters, who called himself "Joe from Ohio," what the goal was.
"The people in this house, who stole this election from us, hanging from a gallows out here in this lawn for the whole world to see, so it never happens again," he said. "That's what needs to happen. Four by four by four, hanging from a rope out here for treason."
A makeshift gallows with a noose was actually built on the Capitol grounds that day but was never used.......
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you know the world is in a bad place.
(I've also heard NPR refer to one of their journalists as an "addiction correspondent."
From NPR:
On Jan. 6, 2021, hundreds of supporters of former President Donald Trump broke through police lines and stormed the U.S. Capitol, forcing a panicked evacuation of top political leaders and threatening the country's peaceful transfer of power. The violent attack was an act of domestic terrorism, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories#:~:text=On%20Jan.%206%2C%202021%2C%20hundreds%20of%20supporters%20of,terrorism%2C%20according%20to%20the%20Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation.
Despite the media's trying to sell the Republican line that there is division in America on what happened on Jan. 6, 2021
but the real division is about who supported the violence, treason, and trying to cover it up and the real Americans who
were sickened by what happened.
Anybody who willing pays 10s of thousands of $s per year to make him look like he does has to be nucking futz.
What sane man would look into a mirror and see the clown make up, the costume, that thing on his head,
along with the lifts in his shoes, and his alleged adult diapers and would thing now that is a good look has
to be crazy.
And just as crazy is TFG still trying to tell us that his supporters had nothing to do with the violence and
attempted coup.
Something here is askew in America.
etc.
