For 1,095 days, right-wing Congress members have been telling me that I didn’t see what I saw on January 6, 2021. The GOP is whitewashing the American tragedy caused by Donald Trump before our eyes.
In an effort to support Trump’s 2024 presidential bid, the Louisiana Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson recently released deceptively edited videotapes to the public, sparking condemnation from even his own party. Former GOP Illinois congressman Joe Walsh called it “aiding and abetting criminal activity.” Johnson demanded “transparency” while hypocritically blurring faces of January 6 rioters to protect them from the American justice system, pushing revisionist history. Trump and Johnson keep attempting to deceive the country with misinformation to prove the Jan. 6 rampage on the Capitol was a peaceful protest. It wasn’t. I was there — as the newly released footage of me shows.
