Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff whose reputation has been shredded by the January 6 panel, projected insouciance as he chatted, chortled and posed for photos with supporters while declining interview requests. The gold lettering that spelled out his name has been unceremoniously expunged, replaced by signage for the new owner, the Waldorf Astoria.īut the AFPI’s two-day summit at the Marriott Marquis Washington hotel created an alternative-reality bubble where face masks and mentions of January 6 were vanishingly scarce and where Trump alumni were feted as celebrities, heroes and martyrs. Trump was rarely seen about town and only ever dined out at the steakhouse in his Pennsylvania Avenue hotel, once the centre of the Trumpiverse but subsequently sold. Trump, a New Yorker born and bred now resident in Florida, was never entirely at ease in Washington during his four-year presidency, which some compared to an army of occupation in a Democratic stronghold: Biden beat the Republican by 92% to 5% in the District of Columbia. You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-cop – or pro-democracy, or pro-American. You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-American.”Ĭall me old fashioned, but I don’t think inciting a mob that attacks a police officer is “respect for the law.” It was carnage, it was chaos.” In the days and weeks after the attack, five officers who had served at the Capitol on January 6 died.īiden said on Monday: “You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-cop, You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-democracy. Officer Caroline Edwards told the January 6 committee: “I was slipping in people’s blood. More than 140 Capitol police and DC Metropolitan police officers were injured while defending the US Capitol, according to official figures. Have you ever heard that expression before?” He added: “The radical left’s anti-police narrative is a total lie. Let them do their job, give them back the respect that they deserve. “Every time they do something, they’re afraid they’re going to be destroyed, their pension is going to be taken away, they’ll be fined, they’ll be put in jail. Guests listen to Donald Trump at the event on Tuesday.

Wearing his signature dark suit, white shirt and red tie, Trump went on to cite individual murder cases in lurid detail and argue that police have been unfairly maligned. We have blood, death and suffering on a scale once unthinkable because of the Democrat party’s effort to destroy and dismantle law enforcement all throughout America.

Trump complained: “There is no longer respect for the law and there certainly is no order. “There is no higher priority than cleaning up our streets, controlling our border, stopping the drugs from pouring in, and quickly restoring law and order in America,” he said to applause. Less than a week after the congressional January 6 committee detailed 187 minutes in which he chose not to stop the deadly insurrection, Trump sought to blame Democrats for what he described as rampant crime. There were chants of “four more years!” as Trump gave a 90-minute address to a summit hosted by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a rightwing thinktank conceived by alumni of his White House.

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