January 07, 2021 by Mary McKenzie
NORRISTOWN – Thursday s Montgomery County Commissioners meeting quickly devolved into a spat when the board s lone Republican s comments on pro-Trump riots in Washington, DC were met with accusations of racism. It s a charge the commission s Democrats have been making for months.
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Republican County Commissioner Joe Gale, a vocal Trump supporter, began his comments about the violence at the U.S. Capitol by stating that he has always supported law enforcement.
Adding that he s praying for the nation, Gale went on to say he had been smeared and censured by the rest of the commissioners for his support of police during riots in almost every major city in the country this past summer.
This is a [expletive] disaster. #MAGA is dead.
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I got that message Wednesday evening from a diehard activist who worked on the 2020 Trump campaign, as the true horror of what happened at the U.S. Capitol hit home. It was a burst of honest anger and betrayal, but as it turns out, it s also a pretty good political analysis.
In the days after the November election, Trump s political fortunes were actually riding fairly high for just the third incumbent POTUS since WWII to lose his bid for re-election, anyway. Trump exceeded expectations, receiving the second-highest popular vote in history. Unfortunately, President-elect Joe Biden received the most, but still, Trump had confounded the experts again.
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Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
PENNSYLVANIA Federal and local authorities announced charges filed in connection with the siege on the United States Capitol building that occurred Wednesday as Congress convened to certify the presidential election results. Among those arrested and charged were more than a dozen Pennsylvania residents. One of those Pennsylvanians is now facing federal charges.
The Department of Justice Friday said 13 people are now facing federal charges in connection with Wednesday s events, including Terry Brown of Pennsylvania. He was charged Thursday with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; or knowingly, with intent to impede government business or official functions, engaging in disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds; and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol gro
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Prosecutors say the 22-year-old blamed Bensalem s Dr. James Sowa for making his jaw pain worse after a treatment in September. (Bucks Co DA)
James Sowa, 64, of Bensalem, grew up in Penndel and graduated from Neshaminy High School in 1974. (Bucks County District Attorney s Office)
BENSALEM, PA A Bensalem man beat a local chiropractor to death after becoming obsessed with him and blaming him for treatment he believed made pain in his jaw worse, according to prosecutors.
Joseph Robert O Boyle, 22, of Bensalem, has been charged with criminal homicide, burglary, criminal trespass and possession of an instrument of crime in the Nov. 2 slaying of James Sowa. Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub announced the charges on Friday.
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President Donald Trump speaks at the Stop The Steal Rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation s capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden s Electoral College victory. (Getty Images/Tasos Katopodis)
BETHLETHEM, PA Lehigh University has rescinded and revoked an honorary degree granted to President Trump in 1988.
The Executive Committee of the Lehigh University Board of Trustees, in a special session Thursday, voted to take the action. The full Board of Trustees affirmed the decision Friday.
The move comes two days after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in a violent effort to block Joe Biden from being certified as the next president.