All decent Americans can hope that Republican leadership shows some respect for the police that protected them and endured the savage attack of Trump goons.
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"Politics isn’t about the weird worship of one dude."
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Michael Fanone, a Metropolitan Police officer who suffered a mild heart attack and a brain injury during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, challenged House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in a meeting on Friday to publicly condemn Republicans who have downplayed the insurrection and voted against honoring the law enforcement who protected them during the siege.Fanone told reporters after the meeting that he had asked McCarthy to denounce the 21 House Republicans who voted against giving police officers a congressional medal of honor for defending the Capitol, as well as...View attachment 505910
GOP Congressman Andrew Clyde, who had compared the riot to a
"normal tourist visit."
"I found those remarks to be disgusting," Fanone said. He added that he wanted McCarthy to "denounce the baseless theory that the FBI was behind the January 6 insurrection," a false claim that has recently been promoted by right-wing media outlets and even members of Congress.
POLICE DEFEND CONGRESSMEN AGAINST TRUMP GOONS, JANUARY 6, 2021
Your pretense of caring about violence or the police, makes no sense, if you prioritize this one relatively small riot while downplaying the far more numerous and violent riots from the Left over the last 5 years.