Emily Hernandez, 22, a Capitol rioter who gleefully brandished a sign stolen from Speaker Pelosi’s office (photo), now she faces serious criminal charges in her home state after a wrong-way crash on a Missouri interstate highway. The crash occurred around 7 p.m. Wednesday night, January 5, 202[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Insurrection’
January 6th, 2022 - 10:17 pm § in Politics
J. D. Vance is a liar
J. D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy” and a GOP candidate in Ohio for U.S. Senate, is a liar. Vance, a Yale Law School grad who knows better, claims, “”There are dozens of people who protested on J6 who haven’t even been charged with a crime yet are being mistreated [...]
Ban Trump from public office?
“Donald Trump might already be ineligible to serve as president of the United States in the future,” Harvard law professor Noah Feldman says (in an op-ed here). He’s referring to the 14th Amendment, Section 3, which says, “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Co[...]
January 6th, 2022 - 4:54 pm § in Politics
Jan. 6 by the numbers, a year on
From Mother Jones (here): 140 police officers assaulted 725+ rioters arrested 81 arrested rioters are veterans 70 rioters have been sentenced 225+ rioters charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding police officers 75+ charged with using a weapon or causing serious harm to a police officer Retur[...]
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham misplaces his last marble
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) went off the deep end long ago, but his mental decline continues, and it’s sad to watch. (See story here.) Related story (here): Trump aide Richard Grenell (bio here) asserts the worst assault on democracy that occurred on January 6, 2021, was Trump getting ki[...]
January 6th, 2022 - 1:55 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The Capitol riot was a revolt of the rich
The popular image of Capitol rioters as low-class, low-income trailer-park trash is false. Many of the rioters were well-off business owners and professionals. Read story here.[...]
Trump cancels press conference to defend Capitol rioters, blaming “media bias”
Trump has canceled a scheduled January 6 press conference at Mar-a-Lago at which he “reportedly planned to defend the rioters,” CNN reports (story here). Instead, he plans to address that “topic” at a January 15 Arizona rally. “Trump in recent months has defended rioter[...]
The Capitol riot and the judgment of history
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) says the Republicans who’ve stuck by Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot “will not be judged well by history,” The Hill reported on Tuesday, January 4, 2022 (story here). The GOP has boycotted the House investigation of the Capitol riot, and refused to coope[...]
January 3rd, 2022 - 7:19 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Getting to know Ashli Babbitt
To Trump and his followers, Ashli Babbitt is a martyr who gave her life to “Stop the Steal” (not voluntarily, it should be noted). But what was this mythical, heroic figure like in real life? Ashli had left the military in 2016 after a combined 14 years in the Air Force and Air National [...]
December 25th, 2021 - 9:24 pm § in Politics
Battle of the tunnel (video)
Three nonstop hours of January 6 rioters trying to force their way into the Capitol tunnel through a cordon of police. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]