On January 6, 2021, a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters descended on the U.S. Capitol, attempting to interfere with the certification of electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election.
An angry, destructive, violent mob.
The Trump rioters assaulted the Capitol police and ransacked one of our nation’s most sacred buildings. They destroyed property and sent members of Congress (and staff) into hiding within the Capitol. More than 100 members of law enforcement were injured.
Let me remind you that an hour or so beforehand, just one mile from the Capitol there in Washington, D.C., then-President Donald Trump claimed election fraud. He called on Vice President Mike Pence to illegally overturn the election. Trump stood at the podium in front of the crowd, all of them holding Trump signs high in the air. He told that mob, “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol” and “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
Let us never forget.
One week later, on January 13, President Trump was impeached for incitement of insurrection.
Let us never forget.
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“Don’t compromise yourself – you’re all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker
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“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
― Sophocles, Antigone
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“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”
― Malcolm X
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The mob. The day. The cause. We should never forget.
