The FBI director testified Tuesday that there was no evidence of fake Trump supporters, antifa or anarchists involved in the Capitol riot. But Republicans kept focusing on those groups and planting seeds of doubt.
You can call out Trump s speech as an inappropriate, dangerous promotion of unsupported claims of massive voter fraud, and sharply criticize how the then-president handled the mob, without supporting
Wyden slams Trump s acquittal in Senate impeachment trial February 13 2021
Sen. Ron Wyden and the Oregon Democratic Party both deplored the results of the impeachment trial held in the U.S. Senate.
In a near party line vote, former President Donald Trump was acquitted by the U.S. Senate during an unprecedented second impeachment trial after Trump had already left office.
The vote of 57-43 fell 10 ballots short of the two-thirds necessary for conviction on charges that Trump incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol that left several dead in January. Seven Republicans voted to convict, per national media accounts.
‘They Want to Destroy the United States,’ Andy Ngo Elaborates on Antifa
Andy Ngo, journalist and author of the recently released book “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy,” told NTD that Antifa isn’t about to fade away just because former President Donald Trump has left office.
Talking about his research on the inner mechanics and goals of Antifa, Ngo said that Antifa capitalized on claims in 2016 that Trump’s term was a fascist regime, to assert that their group was all about opposing American fascism.
But “that was always just a pretext for them to cause misery and carry out homicides and attacks,” Ngo said. “Now they say that they’re just opposing America itself, because America upholds systems of fascism that is interlinked with white supremacy and racism.”