McGovern: I was the last person off the House floor on January 6. I took over for Speaker Pelosi, went into the Speaker’s Lobby, and saw this mad, deranged crowd smashing the glass, trying to get at us. 140 law enforcement officials were injured, and some died from their injuries. Staff were traumatized. If these people had gotten to us, they would have killed us. To call them hostages or political prisoners is grotesque. It shows that Donald Trump is a sick, demented man.
I remember watching Republican colleagues crouch behind chairs in the House gallery, afraid for their lives, some on the verge of tears. This notion of saluting or praising those who caused this chaos, this violence, and harmed law enforcement is sickening—it makes me want to vomit. That’s why Trump cannot get anywhere near the White House. He is unfit to govern. It is quite frankly disgusting that he is the nominee of a major political party in this country.
I hope he loses, and loses big. I hope Republicans lose big and are forced to reinvent themselves and go back to being conservatives instead of being held captive by this MAGA right-wing group of extremist fascists.
“A floating island of garbage…?” Referring to Puerto Rico???
“Poisoning the blood of our nation…?”
We have “murder in our genes….?”
Fuck these racists. Latino men of good will, have pride in yourselves and your ancestors. A vote for Trump is a vote against self-respect.
In PA today, Donald Trump gave one of the most dangerous speeches of the 21st century by describing his strategy for reducing crime as Kristallnacht, “one extraordinarily rough, one really rough nasty day. One rough hour. You know it’ll end immediately.”
https://t.co/qj3jzay2jh
I’ve seen this described as “The Purge” which is wrong. That was a movie where the population was set against itself. This is the description of state-sponsored wide-spread violence. It actually happened.
Trump: In the 1890's, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs. We had a president, you know McKinley. Remember Mount McKinley?