The Republican Party officially declared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol “legitimate political discourse,” formally rebuking two lawmakers in the party who have been most outspoken in condemning the deadly riot. From The New York Times.
WASHINGTON — The Republican Party on Friday officially declared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and events that led to it “legitimate political discourse,” formally rebuking two lawmakers in the party who have been most outspoken in condemning the deadly riot and the role of former President Donald Trump in spreading the election lies that fueled it.
The censure is the latest and most forceful effort by the Republican Party to minimize what happened and the broader attempt by Trump and his allies to invalidate the results of the 2020 election. In approving it and opting to punish two of its own, Republicans seemed to embrace a position that many of them have only hinted at: that the assault and the actions that preceded it were acceptable.
Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger during a hearing of the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 19, 2021. Democrats, however, were incensed, especially at the censure resolution’s description of the Capitol attack as “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse” and the ongoing legal investigations of Trump in New York and Georgia “as Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power.”
The resolution speaks repeatedly of party unity as the goal of censuring the lawmakers, saying the party’s ability to focus on the Biden administration was being “sabotaged” by the “actions and words” of Cheney and Kinzinger that indicate “they support Democrat efforts to destroy President Trump more than they support winning back a Republican majority in 2022.”
Earlier this week, the Wyoming delegation to the Republican National Committee submitted a so-called “Rule 11″ letter, formalizing party support for Hageman. The existence of the letter was reported by The Washington Post.
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