{"id":594959,"date":"2021-07-17T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=594959"},"modified":"2021-07-17T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T16:06:13","slug":"leftists-claimed-capitol-riot-was-worse-than-9-11-victims-families-say-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-claimed-capitol-riot-was-worse-than-9-11-victims-families-say-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Claimed Capitol Riot Was Worse Than 9\/11. Victims\u2019 Families Say Otherwise."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fleftists-claimed-capitol-riot-was-worse-than-9-11-victims-families-say-otherwise%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=594959&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1327324516.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Families of the victims of those killed during the New York City terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 are calling out those who compared the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot to the deadliest attack on American soil.<\/p>\n<p>Retired New York Deputy Fire Chief Jim Riches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/capitol-riot-9-11-families\">told<\/a> Fox News that he was outraged when Democrats, their media supporters, and certain former Republicans claimed the Capitol riot was actually <em>worse<\/em> that 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a shame,\u201d Riches told the outlet. \u201cAre they kidding me? 3,000 people&nbsp;died, plus we have more people&nbsp;dying from the air that was down there \u2026 They\u2019re comparing it to score points politically. The families are really [angry]. When I talk to them, when they compare it to that, they find that outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other family members of those who died 20 years ago also spoke to Fox about the ludicrous comparison, including Debra Burlingame, whose brother was piloting American Airlines Flight 77 when he was killed by terrorists who hijacked the plane and crashed it into the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate because we\u2019re coming up in the 20th anniversary,\u201d Burlingame said. \u201cThere are a lot of young people who have no living memory of 9\/11 \u2026 When you have all these comparisons and analogies, which are inflated and ridiculous, it minimizes what actually happened, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happening here. It\u2019s a deliberate ploy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burlingame also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/its-a-travesty-to-compare-the-capitol-siege-to-9-11-11622153451\">wrote<\/a> a Wall Street Journal op-ed about the ridiculous comparisons, writing that \u201cIt is deeply offensive and sad that the brutal and harrowing memories of the worst terrorist attack in American history are being deployed by political partisans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Connor, who lost his cousin Steven Schlag during in the World Trade Center, said those who would compare 9\/11 to the Capitol riot \u201cdehumanize our families for political gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess they call it gaslighting. They can say these things that will make people believe that these riots were worse than the worst thing that happened on American soil. Either they\u2019re ignorant or they\u2019re just really devious and clever, and you can put nothing past them, because if you\u2019re willing to lie to that degree \u2026 It\u2019s a disturbing trend to me,\u201d he told Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Connor was in Manhattan when the towers fell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw people jumping out. I saw the sides of the buildings explode. I saw papers floating in the wind, and I tried to call my cousin,\u201d he said. \u201cNo one picked up \u2026 The terror, the carnage, the horror of 9\/11, 20 years ago. They\u2019ve forgotten or they think the rest of us have forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Numerous Democrats and other Leftists have compared the Capitol riot to the 9\/11 attacks, even though the terrorist attacks killed more than 3,000 Americans. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called for a \u201c9\/11-type Commission\u201d to investigate what happened on January 6, during which supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol building in an attempt to stop the 2020 election from being certified. One protester, Ashli Babbitt, was killed by police during the riot. Matthew Dowd, a former President George W. Bush strategist who now acts as a left-wing pundit on MSNBC, said the Capitol riot was \u201cworse than 9\/11.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, though there was less loss of life on Jan. 6 \u2013 Jan. 6 was worse than 9\/11 because it\u2019s continued to rip our country apart and give permission for people to pursue autocratic means,\u201d Dowd said on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>At the Huffington Post, White House correspondent S.V. D\u00e1te said what happened on January 6 was \u201c1000 percent worse\u201d that 9 \/11 because the Osama bin Laden-backed terrorists \u201cnever threatened the heart of the American experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 1\/6 terrorists and Donald Trump absolutely did exactly that. Trump continues that effort today,\u201d D\u00e1te tweeted in May.<\/p>\n<p>Former Republican, current Democratic strategist Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the disgraced Lincoln Project, went even further than others, saying the Capitol riot was \u201ca profoundly more dangerous event than the 9\/11 attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in the end, the 1\/6 attacks are likely to kill a lot more Americans than were killed in the 9\/11 attacks, which will include the casualties of the wars that lasted 20 years following it,\u201d Schmidt added while speaking at a town hall.<\/p>\n<p>This is an impossible prediction on its face. More than 3,000 Americans died during the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, about 4,500 U.S. military members died during the war in Iraq, and another 2,400 troops died in Afghanistan. That means the Capitol riots would have to result in nearly 10,000 American deaths to prove Schmidt correct.<\/p>\n<p>So far, only one person \u2013 one of the protesters \u2013 has died. It\u2019s been six months since the riot.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families of the victims of those killed during the New York City terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 are calling out those who compared the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594959","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}