"Donald Trump got away with it. …

But Trump couldn’t have gotten away with treason by himself. First, there were the Republicans who saved him from being held accountable by the same Congress that he attacked. Then there were the oligarchs who paid for a massive rightwing media complex that defended an unapologetic traitor and encouraged conspiratorial thinking among followers."

~ John Stoehr

#Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #insurrection #coup #fascism #history
/23

https://www.editorialboard.com/trump-got-away-with-it-and-now-were-al/

"There were the mainstream Corporate leaders on Wall Street & beyond, who quickly understood that he really could get away with it, like all the other elites over the last 20 years who’d gotten away with their crimes.

Every single Trump ally already believed they were above the law, morality & tradition. That belief was validated by GOP justices on the Supreme Court, who manufactured legal immunity, & by Trump’s victory."

#Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #insurrection #coup #fascism #history
/24

"All I want to do [on the anniversary of Trump's Jan. 6 insurrection] is to say that we should be clear about what is happening. American fascism is on the march, and anyone who balks at saying that clearly, who makes excuses and pretends that Trump and the people he brought in aren’t monsters, is deeply unpatriotic."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #insurrection #coup #fascism
/1

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/day-of-infamy

"As in the Civil War, however, the concentration of white supremacists in a single party has created a massive constitutional crisis—including a violent coup.

That coup is in many ways ongoing. And I think it is best understood as a fascist effort to restore white supremacy as the law of the land."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #insurrection #coup #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #patriarchy
/5

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/why-wont-the-gop-put-country-over

"The Republican Party acts as if none of it happened. It is as if those police officers did not risk their lives, did not suffer grievous injuries, did not have their lives and careers upended while protecting the people who have since turned their backs on them. As Donald and the cowards in the Republican Party would have us believe, the real heroes in this story, the true patriots, are the insurrectionists."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #insurrection
/25

https://www.marytrump.org/p/its-up-to-us

#GiftArticle

#JamieRaskin: #Jan6 Never Ended

…5 years after Jan 6, 2021, we are still caught up in a struggle between forces who are willing to use #authoritarian #violence outside the #Constitution to take & wield power & those who stand up nonviolently for our Constitution in the streets & in the polling places. Neither side can claim victory yet.

It’s still very much Jan 6 in #America.

#NeverForget #insurrection #Trump #democracy #law #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/opinion/jamie-raskin-jan-6-anniversary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVA.IEzf.1h69ekSslxqe&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Video of arrest by SS of counterprotester against the J6'es in DC on Jan 6

On the 5th anniversary of Trump's J6 siege of the US Capitol, fascist scum many of them J6 participants marched on the Capitol. This drew counterprotesters and one of them was assaulted by the fash. She was later arrested by Secret Service (SS)on literal Trumped-up charges of "hitting" one of her assailants!

#J6 #Trump #Insurrection

Video cut from longer Ford Fischer video report

Video of arrest by SS of counterprotester against the J6'es in DC on Jan 6

On the 5th anniversary of Trump's J6 siege of the US Capitol, fascist scum many of them J6 participants marched on the Capitol. This drew counterprotesters and one of them was assaulted by the fash. She was later arrested by Secret Service (SS)on literal Trumped-up charges of "hitting" one of her assailants!

#J6 #Trump #Insurrection

Video cut from longer Ford Fischer video report

"In plain English, it was a terrorist attack. It was political violence aimed at overturning a constitutional process through fear, force, and intimidation. It degraded the values, history, and sacrifices that made this country what it was for 250 years."

~ Rick Wilson

#Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #insurrection #coup #fascism
/17

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-terrorist-in-chief

"Too many people saw January 6th as the final aggrieved death throes of Trumpism. We can now understand it was the start of something much darker."

~ Garrett Graff

#Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #insurrection #coup #fascism #history
/15

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-to-remember-january-6th

EDITORIAL: Trump cannot evade the reality of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection

‘After five years and more than a thousand corrupt presidential pardons, the Capitol assault stands as one of the most outlandish crimes ever committed against the United States’

https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-trump-cannot-evade-the-reality-of-the-jan-6-capitol-insurrection/

#Jan6th #jan6 #insurrection

Post Reports: Four hours of insurrection

Podcast from January or 2021 with 4 hours of sound from the attack of Congress

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/four-hours-of-insurrection/?tid=aud_rsslink&utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=fediverse

#Jan6thInsurrectionists #Jan6th #insurrection #USpol #WashPost #PostReports

:Congress’s failure not to impeach and remove Donald Trump from the presidency on January 7, 2021 could be one of the most significant failures in modern American history. ...

The failure ultimately, with some help from the U.S. Supreme Court, enabled Trump’s 2024 run for re-election.

It’s a simple point, but it is a reality we are living with every day."

~ Chris Geidner

#Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #insurrection #coup #fascism
/16

https://www.lawdork.com/p/five-years-later-as-trumps-lies-continue

Happy the-current-president-of-the-United-States-of-America-conspired-to-steal-an-election-overthrow-the-government-&-end-democracy-&-when-that-didn’t-work-sicced-a-violent-armed-mob-on-the-entire-congressional-body-&-then-you-mother-fuckers-actually-reelected-him anniversary!

😞

#Jan6 #NeverForget #insurrection #Trump #coup

"The Republican Party acts as if none of it happened. It is as if those police officers did not risk their lives, did not suffer grievous injuries, did not have their lives and careers upended while protecting the people who have since turned their backs on them. As Donald and the cowards in the Republican Party would have us believe, the real heroes in this story, the true patriots, are the insurrectionists."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #insurrection
/25

https://www.marytrump.org/p/its-up-to-us

"There were the mainstream Corporate leaders on Wall Street & beyond, who quickly understood that he really could get away with it, like all the other elites over the last 20 years who’d gotten away with their crimes.

Every single Trump ally already believed they were above the law, morality & tradition. That belief was validated by GOP justices on the Supreme Court, who manufactured legal immunity, & by Trump’s victory."

#Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #insurrection #coup #fascism #history
/24