“Law and Order’?
Empathy?
Distain?
In private discussions this summer, Trump has told some people close to him that several of these officers strike him as weak and as “pussies,” according to two sources familiar with the comments and who described them independently. Trump has also maintained that these men seem “broke[n]” by the events of Jan. 6, and that they do not have the supposed toughness or character of the law enforcement officers who, on the whole nationally, still widely support Trump and his policies.
According to these two people, and another source with knowledge of the matter, the twice-impeached former president has also alleged that these particular police officers are letting themselves be used as pawns by anti-Trump Democrats, like Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), or simply despise Trump and are Democrats themselves.
However, there have been times when the ex-president has expressed some measure of pity for these men, saying that he feels sorry for them—but mostly because Trump thinks they’re being used or exploited by his political foes, the person with knowledge of the situation said….
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These conversations occurred weeks before the Capitol Hill hearing this week, which included testimony from multiple officers. But those who testified had been vocal for months about Jan. 6…
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While the former president belittled the officers who tried to fend off the attack he fomented, members of his party have struggled to settle on how exactly to balance their fealty to Trump with their “back the blue” sloganeering.
The bulk of Republican lawmakers have alternately ignored or insulted the police officers who have spoken out. Some have been totally comfortable impugning the integrity of those who did testify on Tuesday—not as crudely as Trump did, but in conspiratorial tones he likely appreciated….
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Most Republicans, however, have chosen a safer path: simply not engaging with the testimony, in an attempt to sidestep any explicit support or rejection of the officers who defended the Capitol that day—a remarkable state of affairs for the conspicuously pro-police GOP….
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Republican lawmakers in Congress have abdicated their association with law enforcement and the police in general to placate Trump….
Cong Tom Rice(R-SC) ,who voted to impeach Trump and ten of his fellow Republican “aye” Congresspeople on impeachment ,recently sponsored an all expense paid vacation at Myrtle Beach for Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone,one of the officers injured on Jan. 6.Rice spent a day by the pool with Fanone.
Apparently Rice wasn’t going to make a big deal out of it and only commented after an enterprising reporter got wind op the story.
Unless I am missing something, I have no problem with this.
Presumably Rice explained that he voted against the 1-6 commission because he puts his personal interest ahead of the country’s. That’s what (most) Republicans do.
I don’t either.
I was posting it because Democrats on here are sometimes accused of hating all Republicans, etc.
Rice did a good deed.I was noting it.
… Yes, makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap.
An’ hustlin’ drunken soldiers when they’re goin’ large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin’ in full kit.
Then it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an` Tommy, ‘ow’s yer soul? ”
But it’s ” Thin red line of ‘eroes ” when the drums begin to roll
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it’s ” Thin red line of ‘eroes, ” when the drums begin to roll….
Don’t mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow’s Uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an` Chuck him out, the brute! ”
But it’s ” Saviour of ‘is country ” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An ‘Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool – you bet that Tommy sees!”
— Rudyard Kipling
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_tommy.htm
Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza presented a curious take on the deadly and violent clash of Trump supporters on Capitol Hill carried out on Jan. 6 in an attempt to interrupt the congressional certification of the Electoral College vote.
Half a dozen people died as a result of what many have fairly called an armed insurrection, including three Capitol Police officers. But, appearing on The Ingraham Angle, D’Souza had a different take on the historic events of that day. This was a hot topic on Capitol Hill as Tuesday saw a Senate hearing featuring former security officers to unpack what happened on that day.
“In reality, this was a bunch of rowdy people walking through a hallway,” D’Souza told Fox News host Laura Ingraham, suggesting that accounts of that day shared by literally hundreds of elected officials and Capitol security veterans are false and being overplayed to score political points. Yes, he really did say that.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/dinesh-dsouza-says-capitol-riots-were-just-a-bunch-of-rowdy-people-walking-through-a-hallway/
Indeed…..