Committee Comments

Midway PA

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In Monday's hearing of the House Select Committee, one officer described how rioters called him a traitor and tried to gouge out his eyes. Another was smashed in a doorway. A third was beaten unconscious and repeatedly stunned with a Taser. A fourth told how he was called a racist slur over and over again by rioters wearing "Make America Great Again." These officers went through hell and Trump constantly praises and identifies with the attackers. The officers testimonies served as a reminder that the insurrectionists have sympathetic allies in the Republican Party. Some GOP lawmakers have described the riot as "peaceful" and the rioters as “tourists." Yesterday some House Republicans held an event at the Justice Department, calling the attackers "political prisoners." There was a separate event trying to blame Nancy Pelosi for the assault. Dana Milbank (Washington Post) noted that “developments have made explicit what has become more obvious by the day...Republicans stand with those who attempted a coup." The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, in an interview with Trump said he spoke to a "loving crowd...what I wanted is what they wanted." Some politicians get so lost in the fog of their own lies, they don't notice a damaging confession when they make one. Tuesday, on The Five (Fox News), Geraldo Rivera was admonished by Co-Host, Dana Perino, for using the word “rape” when describing the violation of the Capitol and Congress, as Host, Greg Gutfeld, made jokes about the Select Committee’s hearings. Trump’s boastings about the common cause he shared with the mob was not unique. The Washington Post recently published a collection of instances in which Trump defended, excused, praised, identified with, and "loved" those who attacked his own country's Capitol. After all, "what they wanted" is what he wanted.