{"id":2206668,"date":"2024-03-26T15:41:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-rioters-are-neither-hostages-nor-patriots\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:44:54","slug":"trumps-rioters-are-neither-hostages-nor-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-rioters-are-neither-hostages-nor-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"The individuals involved in the riot led by Trump are not hostages or patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-rioters-are-neither-hostages-nor-patriots%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2206668&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text discusses the troubling \u2062trend of \u200cconservatives justifying the actions of the Capitol \u200crioters in 2021. Progressive journalist Bill Lueders\u200c highlights the moral inconsistencies \u2063in defending the rioters as &#8220;hostages&#8221; and &#8220;patriots.&#8221; Detailed accounts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-asian-violence-how-politicians-are-ignoring-data-to-divide-us-by-race\/\" title=\"Anti-Asian Violence: How Politicians Are Ignoring Data To Divide Us By Race\">violent acts committed<\/a> by some rioters are provided, emphasizing the \u2063severity of the events and \u2062the injuries sustained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock\/\" title=\"Georgia Secretary Of State Investigating Voter Registration Group Run By Democrat Raphael Warnock\">law enforcement officers<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One of the most distressing things about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> movement is seeing putative \u201cconservatives\u201d make excuses for the 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/january-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Capitol rioters<\/a>. The same people who usually defend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>police<\/a> and castigate rowdy protesters suddenly jettison their law-and-order pretensions and join former President Donald Trump in describing rioters as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/pence-calls-trumps-jan6-hostage-rhetoric-unacceptable-trump-rally-comments-under-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>hostages<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-hostages-comment-could-backfire-republican-voters-1880492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>patriots<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Progressive journalist Bill Lueders provided a necessary corrective on Tuesday for such morally indefensible rationalizations.<\/p>\n<p>Lueders summarized the charges against 22 of the convicted rioters. They are, he writes, only a \u201csmall sampling\u201d of those already convicted and sentenced for crimes on Jan. 6, 2021. Of the 1,358 people charged with crimes related to the Capitol incursion, the offenses of 486 (and counting) were for physical assault or abuse of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/update-washington-d-c-mayor-muriel-bowser-was-warned-but-refused-any-additional-help-before-january-6th-vote-on-stolen-election\/\" title=\"UPDATE: Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Was Warned but Refused Any Additional Help Before January 6th Vote on Stolen Election\">law enforcement personnel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lueders began with Jeffrey Sabol of Kittredge, Colorado, who entered the Capitol \u201cequipped with a \u2018helmet, trauma kit, buck knife, and zip ties.\u2019 Sabol was part of the mob that pushed against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-and-officials-condemn-attack-on-u-s-capitol\/\" title=\"Lawmakers and officials condemn attack on U.S. Capitol\">police lines<\/a> until breaking through. He \u2026 and another rioter knocked an officer to the ground, whereupon Sabol yanked away his baton with so much force that \u2018the officer\u2019s torso was lifted off the ground.\u2019 He dragged another officer down the steps and into the mob, where the officer was beaten with a flagpole and a baton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was also Michael Joseph Foy, who threw a \u201csharp metal pole\u201d into the crowd of officers and \u201cthen used the hockey stick he was carrying to attack police.\u201d He hit police with the stick \u201cat least eleven times, swinging away at their faces, heads, and necks \u2018as if he were chopping wood with an ax.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so on go the horrific accounts.<\/p>\n<p>More than 140 law enforcement personnel were injured that day, many of them quite seriously. Testifying before Congress\u2019s Jan. 6 committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/09\/politics\/caroline-edwards-capitol-police-officer-testimony-january-6\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards told of being knocked unconscious<\/a>, then awakening to see \u201cjust a war scene \u2026 officers on the ground. They were bleeding. They were throwing up. \u2026 I was slipping in people\u2019s blood. I was catching people as they fell. It was carnage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rioters entered the House chamber with zip ties and climbing gear, intending to take hostages. Many yelled for the execution of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Vice President Mike Pence. Some built gallows near the Capitol affixed with Pence\u2019s name. Their goal was to stop the counting of official electoral votes. Those who entered the Capitol with that goal were not patriots but thugs, with some now having been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/four-additional-oath-keepers-sentenced-seditious-conspiracy-related-us-capitol-breach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>sentenced for seditious conspiracy<\/a>, with malice aforethought.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/editorials\/2311645\/trump-and-his-mob-have-dishonored-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>this newspaper editorialized<\/a> that very day, \u201cthere is no majesty in the depravity of a mob.\u201d The editorial said much of the blame rightly belonged with Trump, who \u201cknew what he was doing. He was whipping a sizable portion of the crowd of his supporters into a frenzy. He was acting like a tinpot strongman.\u201d Indeed, accounts from White House insiders since then concur that Trump approvingly watched the mob on TV.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate should have disqualified Trump from ever holding office again. No conservative should excuse Trump\u2019s behavior or that of the vicious mob who attacked the very seat of the nation\u2019s republican, constitutional government. Constitutional liberty cannot exist without law and without officers, also restricted by law, who are willing to police it. The Trump political edifice, though, is built on Trump and his followers being a law unto themselves, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/deadline-white-house\/watch\/trump-claims-he-did-not-swear-an-oath-to-support-constitution-as-president-202518085893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>without any obligation to \u201csupport the Constitution.\u201d<\/a> That\u2019s why Trump and his mob should never again come anywhere near power \u2014 a power they would surely abuse.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One concerning aspect of the Trump movement is witnessing so-called conservatives rationalize the actions of the 2021 Capitol rioters. Those who typically support law enforcement and condemn unruly demonstrators now align with Trump in labeling the rioters as &#8220;hostages&#8221; and &#8220;patriots,&#8221; abandoning their usual law-and-order stance. Progressive journalist Bill Lueders highlighted this inconsistency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2983,"featured_media":2206669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/january-6-6-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/january-6-6-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}