Maddow Blog Officers' accounts put Trump's praise for rioters in new context
At times, yesterday's hearing was difficult to watch. The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol not only featured new video footage of the insurrectionist riot, it also heard from four officers who described their harrowing ordeal in personal, emotional, and gut-wrenching terms. As the New York Times summarized:
One officer described how rioters attempted to gouge out his eye and called him a traitor as they sought to invade the Capitol. Another told of being smashed in a doorway and nearly crushed amid a "medieval" battle with a pro-Trump mob as he heard guttural screams of pain from fellow officers. A third said he was beaten unconscious and stunned repeatedly with a Taser as he pleaded with his assailants, "I have kids." A fourth relayed how he was called a racist slur over and over again by intruders wearing "Make America Great Again" garb.
The report added that the men's gripping, at times excruciating, testimony "cut through a fog of confusion, false equivalence and misdirection that Republicans have generated."
That's clearly true, and GOP officials couldn't have been pleased to see the officers expose partisan lies in such dramatic detail.
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