We re going to walk down to the Capitol and we re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, Trump said at the rally just in front of the White House before the riot started. After the rally, Trump supporters marched to the steps of Congress and broke into the U.S. Capitol building.
At least five people have been pronounced dead, including a police officer. Though the Justice Department has said Trump himself is not expected to be charged, acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin had previously acknowledged he s looking at all actors that had a role in Wednesday s attack.
This country has seen some dark days. There have been moments of unbelievable despair, like we witnessed at the Capitol, when everything seems to come apart at the seams. Those are the hours when the hopelessness we see looks nothing like the nation we thought we knew. Yet, in almost 250 years, even the worst of times have never defined us. And we canât afford to let this one either.
What happened Wednesday wasnât America. We are not a bitter, desolate, violent people. We are a hurting people. A frustrated and divided people. But we are not a people broken beyond repair. I know that, because the vast majority of men and woman at yesterdayâs rally werenât there to shatter windows or trash offices. They didnât come to make congressmen crouch behind desks or run down the hallways in terror. They came peacefully â to air their grievances and ask for justice. Unfortunately, both will be harder to come by now.
January 8, 2021 at 4:08 PM
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The Republican Attorneys General Association runs a nonprofit called Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF). Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is the head of RLDF, saying at the time of his election, “I am honored to lead RAGA’s policy branch, the Rule of Law Defense Fund, and bring conservative attorneys general together in promotion of federalism, freedom, and the rule of law.” But now that group has been fingered as being involved in organizing the march on the Capitol Building that turned into a deadly insurrection, so, perhaps some of that honor has been tarnished.