Does anyone else find these hearings -- particularly the reconstructions of the MAGA violence -- not just traumatizing but also, in a fill-in-the-blanks way, sort of therapeutic?
Reliving this moment has become both an ordeal and a catharsis.
Reliving this moment has become both an ordeal and a catharsis.
New transcripts of dispatches from the police. The printed words don't convey the panic 
"This is now effectively a riot."
Officer Goodman spots Mitt Romney, gets him to do a 180 and run to safety
There goes Pence and his family, down the stairs, being escorted to safety by the Secret Service
"The mob was looking for the vice president because of his patriotism"
-- Rep Plaskett
"The mob was looking for the vice president because of his patriotism"
-- Rep Plaskett
A rioter writes of the "mob howling with rage," and uses Trump's favorite epithet for Pelosi -- "Crazy Nancy"
Congressional staff run to safer spaces, where they can barricade themselves
Same hallway, moments later
Whispered voice of barricade staffers, as the mob outsidee is yelling, "WHERE ARE YOU, NANCY?"
"Trump put his own need for power over his duty to the Constitution and our democratic process. President Trump put a target on their backs, and his mob broke into the Capitol to ... hunt ... them ... down."
Damn.
Damn.
Just outside the House chambers:
Man 1: "All right, no violence."
Man 2: "It's too late for that. They don't listen without that shit."
Man 1: "All right, no violence."
Man 2: "It's too late for that. They don't listen without that shit."
Inside the chamber
House members being moved to safety, just feet from protesters vowing to kill them.
Swalwell to senators:
"The officers are rushing. To protect YOU."*
(*Emphasis mine)
"The officers are rushing. To protect YOU."*
(*Emphasis mine)
"If the doors to this chamber had been breached just a minute earlier, imagine what they could have done with those cuffs"
The rioters came armed with bear and pepper spray
"We have been flanked and we've lost the line"
The House managers break for recess.
A photographer should be in the Senate restrooms to capture Portman, Rubio, Cruz, McConnell, Blackburn et al looking at themselves in the mirror.
A photographer should be in the Senate restrooms to capture Portman, Rubio, Cruz, McConnell, Blackburn et al looking at themselves in the mirror.
"This will be Donald Trump's legacy."
-- @jaketapper
-- @jaketapper
If you think that presentation was powerful, wait til you see the meandering nonsense that Trump’s all-star legal team has as a rebuttal
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