Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has had nearly sufficient of this speak in regards to the assault on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“The American individuals are fed up with this over-dramatization of a riot that occurred right here on the Capitol one time,” the Georgia Republican told NBC News recently. “They’re sick and bored with Jan. 6 — it’s over, OK?”
Oh nicely, because it solely occurred simply the one time. …
Let’s go over just a few information, we could?
Truth #1: 5 individuals died that day.
Truth #2: Greater than 100 law enforcement officials had been injured by the rioters.
Truth #3: Greater than 750 individuals from 48 states have been charged for his or her roles within the riot, in line with a database maintained by USA Immediately.
Truth #4: It was the primary time the Capitol had been breached because the British did it in 1814 as a part of the Conflict of 1812.
Truth #5: The rioters broke into the constructing with the categorical objective of stopping the certification of the 2020 election that had been gained by Joe Biden and misplaced by Donald Trump.
This was, briefly, a cataclysm aimed immediately at our democracy. It was a violent rebellion urged on by the then-President of america as a result of he was sad that he didn’t win the election.
Greene is way from the primary Republican to try a whitewashing of what occurred that day.
Final Could, Georgia Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde mentioned this in regards to the riot:
“Watching the TV footage of those that entered the Capitol and walked by means of Statuary Corridor confirmed individuals in an orderly vogue staying between the stanchions and ropes taking movies and footage. You understand, in the event you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January the sixth, you’ll truly assume it was a traditional vacationer go to.”
And, only a month after the riot, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson insisted that “this didn’t look like an armed riot to me.”
(About that declare, PolitiFact wrote this: “We nonetheless can determine accounts of quite a few weapons present in and across the Capitol, introduced there in some circumstances by individuals who noticed themselves as troopers in a battle.”)
The Level: Greene — and the likes of Clyde and Johnson — would do nicely to recollect this maxim: “Those who fail to study from historical past are doomed to repeat it.”
