Our legislators, in mortal fear for their lives, must have been life-altering for most. No matter what your party affiliation, I'm sure we can all agree what we witnessed at the Capitol was horrific. Rich Malacoff, Cathedral City With any luck, none of this will happen again The Pro-Trumpers are protesting the election and saying they want to “Save America.” Save America from who? Other Americans. I don’t disagree that with four dead and boundaries in the capital building stormed that the riot yesterday was a terrible disgrace to our country.īut so was all the looting and burning and less than peaceful protesting that has occurred for the past several months, clearly engendered and encouraged and then ignored by the Democrats and the left. You felt the extremely bad civil unrest that occurred in Washington, D.C., yesterday deserved your front-page headlines, adding Democrat Raul Ruiz bemoaning the event. Ronnie Marshall, Palm Desert Where was your outrage then? Now all law-abiding Americans, and the entire world, have witnessed the chaos that Trump’s lies have wrought.Įvery Republican in Congress bears equal blame for this debacle by their years of cowardice in buckling under to the bully tactics of the worst and most incompetent president this country has ever seen. If Republicans continue to persist in their “objections” to Biden’s win, they will forever be branded as complicit in this saddest day of our lifetime. Capitol building in the most disgraceful and humiliating display of unhinged rage and belief in those lies. We have today with sheer horror and shock watched the current sitting president, the corrupt and malevolent Donald Trump, incite American citizens to riot and disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election.Īfter constantly bombarding his delusional base with lies and inflammatory rhetoric, especially these few months since the November election was called for Biden and acknowledged and affirmed by every state, reaffirmed by countless federal courts, including the Supreme Court, Trump continued to rile up his base. Almost 80 years ago, President Roosevelt declared Dec. 7, 1941, as a day of infamy when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

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