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The Senate hearing proves white supremacy played a big role in the Capitol Hill riot

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The Senate hearing proves white supremacy played a big role in the Capitol Hill riot

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3/3/21
Republicans are determined to blame Black Lives Matter and antifa for the Capitol Hill riot. But after Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the insurrection, there’s no doubt that white supremacy was the real culprit. FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed what many of us already knew — that white supremacy is thriving in America. The sentiment that has been brewing for several years reached a pinnacle when an angry mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. Though its prominence rises and declines with the political climate, it has always been there waiting for the right moment to explode. And there is one thing we know for sure — the scourge of the white superiority ideology will never go away. But it will continue to flourish until law enforcement officials and politicians from Washington and every little town in America decide it’s time to stop allowing it to wreak havoc. The Senate hearing showed no indication that will happen anytime soon. Many Republican lawmakers have chosen to ignore the facts about the insurrection. Politicians and conservative pundits continue to perpetuate the lie that Black Lives Matter and antifa were responsible for the insurrection. They refuse to admit that many of the domestic terrorists who stormed the Capitol were white supremacists who support Donald Trump. The former president spent four years cultivating this constituency within his base.

The white nationalists who took over the Capitol didn’t try to hide their identity any more than the neo-Nazis who rallied around the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The insurrectionists boldly carried Confederate battle flags through the hallways and wore T-shirts that said, “Camp Auschwitz.” Republicans are the only ones attempting to minimize their involvement. The FBI director, who is leading the investigation into the Capitol Hill riot, made it clear that Republicans are off base when they try to deny that white supremacy was one of the root causes of the insurrection. Democratic Sen. Chris Coons asked Wray outright, “Has there so far been any evidence that the Jan. 6 riot, the insurrection, was organized by people simply posing as supporters of President Trump?” Wray answered, “We have not seen any evidence of that.” Coons asked, “Is there any evidence at all that it was organized or planned or carried out by groups like antifa and Black Lives Matter?” Wray answered, “We have not seen any evidence of that.” Coons asked, “Is there any doubt the people who stormed the Capitol included white supremacists and other far-right extremist organizations?” Wray answered, “There is no doubt that it included individuals that we would call militia violent extremists and, in some instances, individuals that were racially motivated violent extremists.”


Republicans are desperately trying to hide from the American people the fact that many of the January 6 Capitol rioters were Trump-friendly white-nationalists. No rioters were from either Black Lives Matter or antifa.

FBI Director Christopher Wray debunked this GQP talking point yesterday in testimony before the Senate.
 
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