![]() ![]() That same officer called vile, was called vile, racist names. One Capitol Police officer called it a medieval battle. The rest of the nation, including law enforcement, saw a lot of hate and violence. Trump said that there was a lot of love on January the sixth. And he promised to pardon them if he returns to office. Instead of calling them criminals, he’s called these insurrectionists patriots. Collectively to date, they have been sentenced to more than 840 years in prison. Nearly 900 of them have been convicted or pled guilty. Since that day, more than 1,200 people have been charged with assault in the Capitol. One desperate act available to him, the violence of January the sixth. Well, so knowing how his mind works now, he had one, he had one act left. Every one, but the legal path just took Trump back to the truth, that I’d won the election and he was a loser. Trump exhausted every legal avenue available to him to overturn the election. In addition, Fox News agreed to pay a record eight, 787 million dollars for the lies they told about voter fraud. Other state and local elected officials across the country faced similar personal attacks. Rudy Giuliani, was just hit with a 148 million-dollar judgment for cruelty and defamation that he inflicted against them. In Atlanta, Georgia, a brave Black mother and her daughter, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, were doing their jobs as election workers until Donald Trump and his MAGA followers targeted and threatened them, forcing them from their homes, unleashing racist vitriol on them. These public servants had their lives forever upended by attacks and death threats for simply doing their jobs. Trump lost recount after recount after recount and state after state.īut in desperation and weakness, Trump and his MAGA followers went after election officials who ensured your power as a citizen would be heard. Trump lost before a Trump-appointed judge, and then judges, and Trump lost before the United States Supreme Court. Trump lost the Republican-controlled states. Trump’s claims about the 2020 election never could stand up in court. Trump lost the popular vote by 7 million. A record 81 million people voted for my candidacy and to end his presidency. It was among the worst derelictions of duty by a president in American history.Īn attempt to overturn a free and fair election by force and violence. ![]() Imagine had he gone out and said, “Stop.” Republican leaders who were under attack at that very moment pled with him.Īct. Members of his staff, members of his family. Then, as usual, he left the dirty work to others.Īs America was attacked from within, Donald Trump watched on TV in a private, small dining room off my oval, off the Oval Office. He promised he would write them, write them, everything they did. He told the crowd to “fight like hell” and all hell was unleashed. Jill and I attended the funeral of police officers who died as a result of the events of that day.īecause Donald, because of Donald Trump’s lies, they died because these lies brought a mob to Washington. The House was chanting as they marched through and smashed windows, “Where’s Nancy?” Outside, gallows were erected as the MAGA crowd chanted, “Hang Mike Pence.” Smashing windows, shattering doors, attacking the police. ![]() You know, it’s the very site that I think every American should visit, because it tells the story of the pain and the suffering and the true patriotism it took to make America.įor the first time in our history, insurrectionists had come to stop the peaceful transfer, transfer of power in America. I’ve been there a number of times since the time I was a Boy Scout years ago. I just visited the grounds of Valley Forge. Their mission, George Washington declared, was nothing less than a sacred cause. This ragtag army made up of ordinary people. This army, whose march left bloody bare footprints in the snow. This army that lacked blankets and food, clothes and shoes. In his general order, he predicted, and I quote, with one heart and one mind, with fortitude and with patience, they would overcome every difficulty, the troops he was leading. Something, something about the soul of the nation he was struggling to be born. Something about the spirit of the troops he was leading. But General Washington knew something in his bones. Months ahead would be incredibly difficult.
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