But to listen
Fox News neo and many people in
Republican Party Tell it, Democrats are wildly exaggerating what happened on January 6th. And it turns out, according to these text messages
read aloud Monday by Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney that many of them know how bad the violence was then and
beseeching The then president, through Chief of Staff Meadows, to do something about it. Popular Fox News commentators and hosts, including Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade and Sean Hannity, all sent frantic messages to Meadows. The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., as well as many members of Congress.
“He must condemn this as soon as possible,” said Don Jr.
Written. “We need an Oval office address.”
“Mark, the president needs to tell everyone at the Capitol to go home,” Ingraham
Written. “This is hurting us all. He is destroying his legacy.”
“Can he make a statement?” Hannity asked. “Ask everyone to leave the Capitol.”
“Please, put him on TV,” Fox & Friends’ Kilmeade begged. “Destroy everything you’ve accomplished.”
Content from legislators, press and others
tell Meadows that Trump needs to “condemn this as soon as possible”, “Mark the protesters are actually storming the Capitol, breaking the window on the door, coming in. Is Trump going to say something?” and “We are all helpless.”
Republicans are no longer helpless. But now that the immediate physical danger to them has passed, many Republicans are downplaying what happened that day, while Fox News is rewriting history — and endangering their lives. danger to American democracy in the process.
Shortly after January 6, several members of the GOP refused to acknowledge the disaster of the attack. Texas Republican Representative Louie Gohmert
declare “There is no evidence, as stated on January 7, that this was an armed uprising.” Alabama Representative Mo Brooks
speak he doesn’t know if his employees were involved in the riot, “but if they did, I would be proud of them for helping organize a legal First Amendment protest.” at the ellipse to protest voter fraud and election theft.”
Several Republican congressmen and close associates of Trump spoke at the rally before the violence, and even after the attacks, some Republicans continued.
to push completely
wrong claim that the election was stolen. Don Jr.
told crowd on January 6, when it came to Republicans voting to certify the election results, “These people better fight for Trump. Because if they don’t, guess what? I’ll be in your backyard in a pair of the month!” He continued, “This isn’t their Republican Party anymore! This is Donald Trump’s Republican Party!”
It really is Trump’s Republican Party, with members willing to deny reality and jeopardize the nation’s own stability to inflate the former president’s ego and thirst for power.
Since the attack on our nation’s Capitol, most parties
stood in the manner of a committee tasked with investigating what happened that day and some members have even sought
Punishment Several Republicans are participating in the investigation. On Fox News, long a pro-Trump media and lacking factual information (viewers are justified in not believing top Fox News host Tucker Carlson is “stated the facts”, “Fox News attorneys
recently argued in court), talking heads are constantly downplayed, misdirected, or outright lying about what happened at the Capitol.
Ingraham – who just hours earlier had begged Meadows to let the then-president act – went on air and there was no evidence to blame Antifa for any of the violence,
emphasize “legitimate concerns about how these elections are conducted.” She then invited a rioter to join her show to
sympathetic interview in which Ingraham considers the term “revolt” an exaggeration and responds to the woman’s story by saying, “I can’t even believe I’m hearing any of this. ” Ingraham sympathizes with what it was like to face “traumatic” consequences (later, the rioter and her attorney claimed the Ingraham Angle group “played” her, asking only questions that made her he has to talk about”
very polite“fashionists and obscure her opinion of her actions).
When Capitol police officers testified before Congress about the violence they endured on January 6, Ingraham
entertaining among them in a segment called “The Perspective Awards for Today’s Best Performances.”
Hannity
summon the 2020 election “a wreck” and said most Republicans “have no confidence in these election results.” However, he didn’t use his own platform to foster that belief. Instead, he flew into the air
condemn investigative committee January 6.
And Kilmeade has been since
complain other networks are covering up the January 6 attacks too much. Fox Nation, Fox News’ streaming service, even aired an entire Carlson-hosted propaganda show, adding to the bizarre lie that January 6 was “
wrong flag” active.
Several Fox News employees, many Republicans, Trump staffers, and Trump’s eldest son knew what was going on that day. They sounded the alarm privately. But now it’s time for them to use their huge platforms to tell the truth or fulfill their duty as elected official to seek it out, they are choosing to lie or fabricate to be able to maintain his own power and influence in a party that was completely broken up. by an immoral, deeply narcissistic man.
Since Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016, those of us who care about America’s future have wondered which conservative heads of state and Republican politicians would place America comes first, and who will choose the party and power over the country. The answer only becomes clearer as the stakes get higher and higher.
It’s disgusting and deeply unpatriotic, but the American people deserve to know: Fox News and pro-Trump members of the GOP are disrupting America and undermining our rich democratic traditions. ta. And America deserves far more than a conservative party controlled by power-hungry individuals willing to deny the truth.
