Last updated on June 3rd, 2021 at 02:40 am
Speaking at the QAnon conference, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) repeated the lie that the left participated in the 1/6 attack.
With the slogan for QAnon — an extremist ideology that the FBI has deemed a domestic terrorism threat — shining onstage behind him, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) spoke to a crowd gathered for the “For God & Country Patriot Roundup†on Saturday, where he downplayed the seriousness of the January insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and criticized Democrats pushing an independent review of the deadly event.
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He suggested that “it wasn’t just right-wing extremists†rioting in the Capitol, even though federal officials have consistently debunked claims that leftist activists played a role in the attack. He also suggested that the insurrection shouldn’t be a serious concern because the United States has weathered worse, including foreign attacks.
The difference between 1/6, 9/11, and Pearl Harbor is that 9/11 and Pearl Harbor were respective acts of terrorism and war on the United States of America. The 1/6 attack was a terrorist attack on democracy that attempted to overturn an election. Lumping the three attacks together and claiming that 1/6 wasn’t as bad is disingenuous.
The three attacks were different. Each has unique motivations, but only 1/6 featured Americans who were inspired by a defeated president to attack their own elected officials to try to overthrow the government.
The left was not involved in 1/6. The attack on the Capitol was a Donald Trump production.
QAnon is turning the Republican Party is into something that is morphing closer to a political terror cell, and if the GOP returns to power, the domestic terrorists of January 6th will have won.
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