The New York Times is defending a member of its editorial board after comments she made during a discussion about supporters of former President Trump politicizing the American flag sparked backlash from the right.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting, Trump-loving, riot-goading, Congresswoman from Colorado, has a new conspiratorial obsession. And she’s fixated on it rather than working to address the multiple environmental crises facing her state.
As The Washington Post reports, Gohmert pushed the debunked claim that leftist activists played a role in the Jan. 6 attack while speaking at an event titled “For God & Country Patriot Roundup” on Saturday.
“Some of us think Pearl Harbor was the worst attack on democracy, some of us think 9/11 was the worst attack,” Gohmert said. “Some of us think that those things were worse attacks on democracy.”
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The Texas congressman later posted a photo posing with a QAnon promoter who claims to have been at the Jan. 6 attack, the Post reports.
Gohmert has previously attempted to downplay the severity of the Jan. 6 attack, saying in May that there was no evidence that the riot was an “armed insurrection despite many photos shared on social media showing rioters carrying weapons into the Capitol and many being charged with unlawful possession of firearms.