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An ex-Republican “Never Trump” activist for the disgraced Lincoln Project made a reckless, disrespectful, tone-deaf claim about the January 6th Capitol riots at a ‘town hall’ event on Wednesday.
“The 1/6 attack for the future of the country was a profoundly more dangerous event than the 9/11 attacks,” Steve Schmidt said. “And in the end, the 1/6 attacks are likely to kill a lot more Americans than were killed in the 9/11 attacks, which will include the casualties of the wars that lasted 20 years following. “We have had … political violence in this country, and I believe we’re on the edge of another one, tragically,” he continued. “And we have to fight back against it at the ballot box.”
It is unclear if Schmidt is making an ominous form of foreshadowing about government repression in the aftermath of the January 6th event or if he truly believes the far-right extremists who planned the unarmed siege on the Capitol building constituted as serious a threat as al Qaeda did.
If that is Schmidt’s argument, then judging by events alone, the fatalities register: “al Qaeda: 3,000+; Capitol rioters: 0.”
That is because at the January 6th uprising there where no rioters in the Capitol building who were armed with firearms. The only person provably killed was Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt. There were no “capture and kill” teams. There was no “coup” that could potentially transfer sovereignty from the United States of America to a bunch of fringe extremists.
Islamic extremist terror groups like al Qaeda and ISIS would go on to kill hundreds more since 9/11. This also doesn’t directly count the nearly 7,000 troops killed in the ensuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is now only drawing to a close. Schmidt then seemingly predicts a minimum of 10,000-15,000 Americans killed because of the Jan.6 riot and its aftermath.
The “threat,” so to speak, exists almost entirely in these Trump “resistance” types’ overactive imaginations. But that hasn’t stopped the Department of Justice and the left-wing media from fueling these exaggerated minimal threats.
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