"If the Democratic Party wants to stand with anarchists, agitators, rioters, looters and flag burners, that is up to them. But I as your president will not be
âIf the Democratic Party wants to stand with anarchists, agitators, rioters, looters and flag burners, that is up to them. But I as your president will not be part of it. The Republican Party will remain the voice of the patriotic heroes who keep America safe.â
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Donald Trump, Aug. 28, 2020
Wednesday was a horrifying and shameful moment in American history. Iâve covered attempted coups in many countries around the world, and now Iâm finally covering one in the United States.
Trump and his enablers talk a good game about patriotism. They denounced President Barack Obama for sometimes not wearing a flag lapel pin. They criticized Colin Kaepernick for protesting police brutality by taking a knee rather than standing during the national anthem â and then Trump incited a mob on Wednesday to invade the United States Capitol. The rioters encountered a minimal police response, not the kind that Black Lives Matter protesters received.
Nicholas Kristof: Trump incites terrorism with his lies
Pro-Trump rioters will be remembered as modern Benedict Arnolds.
Trump supporters gesture to U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
By Nicholas Kristof | The New York Times
| Jan. 7, 2021, 12:30 a.m. | Updated: 3:36 p.m.
“If the Democratic Party wants to stand with anarchists, agitators, rioters, looters and flag burners, that is up to them. But I as your president will not be part of it. The Republican Party will remain the voice of the patriotic heroes who keep America safe.”
As of Monday,
Lori Loughlin has officially completed her two-month prison stint and is now just 150 hours of community service away from fulfilling the terms of her sentence.
But her husband
Mossimo Giannulli, who was sentenced to five months in prison for his own role in the college admissions scandal, is set to remain in lockup until April 17 and apparently, his time inside is not going very well.
The fashion designer who is currently serving his sentence at F.C.I. Lompoc near his family’s new $9.5 million “farmhouse” is reportedly “having a rough time in prison,” according to a source who spoke to