Most Republicans were absent from commemorating the attack on the Capitol, so into the void stepped Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Bencjacobs reports
Photo: Michael Reynolds/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol was marked with solemnity, but it wasn’t exactly bipartisan. Both President Biden and Vice President Harris addressed the nation from Statuary Hall. The Democratic House convened a special session to pay tribute to those who died in the aftermath of the attack and Democratic senator after senator addressed the chamber to reflect on what transpired one year ago.
“We did not want the Republican voice to go unheard and have today’s historical narrative be hijacked by those who were the true insurrectionists,” Gaetz proclaimed during a press conference inside the Capitol, inside a tiny, stuffy room where their aides scoffed at requests from photographers to don masks.
The argument laid out by the two is a perverse mirror image of the actual events. January 6 did represent the culmination of an effort to overturn a presidential election and install the losing candidate by government actors. But in their view, the losing candidate was Joe Biden, not Trump. It wasn’t a failed autogolpe by an increasingly desperate losing candidate advised by figures ranging from a television pillow salesman to Rudy Giuliani.
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