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Whose hearts are bleeding for J6 criminals of the "day of love" [1]
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Date: 2025-01-12
Had the two planted J6 pipe bombs had detonated, everything would have been different, yet we still don’t know who did it.
Lint was sentenced to four months in prison and 32 months of parole for using a riot shield against Capitol Police. [image or embed]
To this day, former and now future President Trump likes to say Jan. 6 was a “day of love,” and that the convicted rioters, whom he sicced on Congress to halt Biden’s legitimate assumption of the presidency, should be pardoned, if not lionized. Aaron Thacker — who is now a senior aide to Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, Adrian Fontes — didn’t sleep much the night before he deployed to D.C. on Jan. 7. He knew what kind of day Jan. 6 actually was. “In war, you expect bad things to happen,” he says. “But even [those things, in my personal experience] didn’t compare to how I felt about what happened on Jan. 6 … [because] it was not supposed to happen. Americans are not supposed to do that to each other.”
The attack on the Capitol was the culmination of a blatantly authoritarian operation by an electorally defeated president to cling to power and shred the nation’s democratic order.
By late January 2021, Trump finally relinquished the office as a wildly unpopular president during a still-raging global pandemic, leaving behind an immeasurably broken country and a historic mess for his Democratic successor to drown in. At the time, there was no shortage of members of the Republican Party elite rushing to denounce the delusional, soon-to-be former president, with senior veterans of his administration unafraid to unload on him — on the record — with lines like: “Yesterday was the worst day for the Republican Party since Lincoln’s assassination.”
The attack on the Capitol that Trump instigated led to bloodshed, Americans dying, a second presidential impeachment, a high-profile congressional inquiry, lawsuits, criminal investigations, and the first federal criminal charges of a president in the nation’s history were soon triggered.
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