Right-Wing Activist Praises Rioters For Restraint In Not Executing Lawmakers
On 1/8/21 at 10:05 PM EST
In a recent video, right-wing conspiracy theorist and former FBI agent John Guandolo praised the rioting supporters of President Donald Trump for their restraint in not killing Congressional lawmakers while ransacking the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. What happened at Capitol yesterday was incredibly restrained from my perspective, Guandolo said on the Thursday installment of Focus Today, a program of the Christian broadcast network The Dove. I was there, I watched it, I was in and amongst it. The clip was first surfaced by Right Wing Watch.
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She says the response was shameful, disgraceful and inequitable. You can t tell me that there s not some systemic racism that we saw yesterday (Wednesday) in the disparities in how black lives matter protesters would have been pushed back and how these protesters because they re Donald Trump protesters, said Lee. And they were there by the orders of this President they were told to incite violence they were told to come to the Capitol and they were primarily white you can t tell me the response was equitable and it wasn t.
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"Somebody ought to go up there and tell him it s over," Powell told Today anchor Savannah Guthrie on Friday. "The plane s waiting for you, you re out."