It's very likely that we're going to do at least one extra episode as the hearings go on. So if anyone tries to make you let that go, to gaslight you, to make you forget, to play down both the trauma on a personal level and the attack on a political level that happened to our country, its representatives and its citizens that week, do not ever, ever let them. They are violent, and they are fine with the potential murder of their colleagues in Congress, of people like AOC. Everyone knew it was going to happen because the people who encouraged it-like Donald Trump, Josh Hawley-and the people who helped plan it, which include Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, GOP congressmen, they all knew. So don't let them lie to you and say there was no idea that they knew this was going to happen. We did an episode and we were like, “please be careful on January 6”. It was there and we even talked about it in December. And two, we didn't want to completely scare the crap out of everybody.īut it was there. So there's this difficult balance where we were trying not to, one, give publicity to people who want to overthrow the government-to violent actors-and build them up. We didn't necessarily know that they would make it inside, but we feared that they would. There's going to be an attack on the Capitol.” We didn't know, of course, the details. There were other signs from Trump supporters and people who oppose him, saying “yes, January 6 is going to be a very violent day. They posted their names, they posted their locations, they live-tweeted the whole thing. We described what was going to happen and people were like, “wow, how'd you know?”, and I'm like, they told us! Donald Trump told us. Tune in tomorrow as we discuss the terror, violence, lies. Andrea and I, even on January 5, announced we're doing a post-insurrection Gaslit Nation special. We remember, as AOC reminded us, that we knew that this was coming, that we knew the violence was there. And so it is critical that no matter what the Democrats do next week as impeachment starts, what the Republicans do, that we all remember exactly what happened on January 6. And you see, especially on the Republican side, this farcical and insulting and cruel, honestly, desire to move on, to make nice, to unify, which is basically just their euphemisms for dodging accountability. It was heartbreaking and it was difficult to watch the video that AOC put out last night, but it was incredibly courageous of her to do so, and incredibly necessary, because what we're still dealing with here is information warfare and the construction of a narrative. We're not going to be so lucky next time if we don't do the necessary work to take back our democracy by expanding the vote, protecting the vote, undoing gerrymandering and all the other corruption and cheating the Republicans do in order to try to get minority tyranny in America. They were planning on getting away with it. They did it because they thought they could get away with it. In it, she shares how she was terrified and was preparing herself mentally to die.Īgain, as the impeachment trial gets underway, never forget: this was a violent attempted coup by Donald Trump and his family and many people-including Republican lawmakers who are still in Congress-that incited this insurrection against our democracy. It's a gutting oral history of one of the worst terrorist attacks ever against America. And the grassroots engine here in New York has been providing a lot of extraordinary moral leadership, most famously, of course, is AOC, who gave us a heart-wrenching, deeply personal and vulnerable account of the January 6 violent attempted coup. The NYPD's union endorsed Trump, and the NYPD is currently being sued by State Attorney General Tish James for use of excessive force against protestors. New York City is incredibly important on the front lines against authoritarianism, as we saw during the Trump years. And this week, we're bringing you a special interview. We'll also highlight which of the jurors-meaning the Republican senators- are most vulnerable in 2022, where the electoral map looks good for Democrats again. That's a historic second impeachment trial for historic failure Donald Trump. Our coverage of the impeachment trial begins next week. Jones.Īnd this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States, and rising autocracy around the world. I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. I'm Sarah Kenzior, the author of the best-selling books The View from Flyover Country and Hiding in Plain Sight. Show Notes for This Episode Are Available Here
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