And just for the record, there is no evidence for Brooks's absurd and self-serving lies: nytimes.com/live/2020/2020…
And now we have Matt Gaetz repeating this execrable lie on the floor of Congress. Of course, he presented no proof.
This nonsense is going to become the new "Democrats are the real racists," an idiotic shibboleth repeated by conservatives to avoid facing their serious problems.
And just for the record, some of us tried to warn America's leaders that violence was in the air.
I wish McConnell, Schumer, and Pelosi had paid more attention
DeAnna Lorraine, a prominent QAnon cultist and a former Republican congressional candidate, has now explicitly said that she and fellow right-wingers were the ones who stormed the Capitol. She must not have a very good attorney.
It's obvious why Mo Brooks would want to blame the political opposition for the domestic terrorism. He literally incited violence just minutes before the rioting and looting began
It's really pitiful seeing people like Politico's Tim Alberta, who was Paul Ryan & John Boehner's personal scribe for decades suddenly start getting compunction now that they don't need GOP access.
Admit to how you helped pave the way for Trumpism, @TimAlberta. We're waiting.
Fox News and the rest of right-wing media is about to blame the entire #TrumpCoupAttempt on a random leftist from Utah who was there to document the insurrection. They're gonna try to pin it all on him, watch.
Right on cue. The sausage factory is in motion.
This dude is about to make some serious bank.
More sausage being made. Fox News was more careful with their actual article but the headline gives away what they're trying to do.
John Sullivan needs to lawyer up, stat, to put the kibosh on this defamation. Where are the progressive legal groups?
Republican politicians condemning the #TrumpCoupAttempt who are also not calling for his immediate removal and irrevocable prohibition from holding any federal office are nothing more than rats leaving a sinking ship.
The GOP will have no political future unless it does this.
Any conservative pundit who does not call for Trump's removal and permanent ban from federal office should never be invited onto any mainstream media TV show. Any right-wing columnist who fails to do this should be fired.
The MSM must show leadership here. It's easy. Do it.
Shareholders in any corp run by Rupert Murdoch must also demand his immediate resignation & that of his son, Lachlan. Both men deliberately poisoned the minds of hundreds of millions. They must pay for their sins.
No sports league, athlete, or celebrity should work w/them again.
Trump fascists are running around with an effigy hung by a noose. Trying to confirm the purported gallows photo that's being circulated. gettyimages.com/detail/news-ph…
OK this gallows image is real. It's just outside the Capitol building complete with a noose and ready for a lynching.
More: A Trump worshipper kneels before a giant cross amidst the radical Christian terrorism. Win Mcnamee / Getty Images
For the past 6 years, I & a few other journalists have been trying to get the mainstream press and political elites realize the major danger posed by the radical right. Unfortunately, moderate and liberal elites deluded themselves into thinking that conservatism wasn't a cult.
There is no secretly powerful "Republican establishment" that will fix things. There are thugs, deluded people, and there are quislings. There is no one else in the GOP. Instead of focusing on the radical right's danger, editors wanted stories about Trump tweets.
Instead of calling out the dangerous radicalism of the GOP, television debate shows and opinion pages invited the enablers of fascism to speak and write about how we all needed to give powerful insane people the benefit of the doubt.