Threats against elected officials are not political speech, they are criminal acts that strike at the heart of public safety and our democratic system, the district attorney for Dutchess county, Anthony Parisi, said in a statement. Moynihan, of Pleasant Valley, New York, was charged last October after he sent threatening text messages about an appearance Jeffries was scheduled to make in New York City, according to a complaint filed in New York state court in Clinton.
Ashli Babbitt, shot while breaching a barricaded doorway during the January 6 attack, is framed by Trump as a victim of unjust state violence. Her conduct is treated as incidental. Context is stripped away. The asymmetry did not stop at rhetoric. Trump and his White House publicly identified the Capitol Police officer who shot Babbitt, despite longstanding norms protecting officers involved in use-of-force incidents.
The Trump White House has published a government-sanctioned series of bonkers lies about the January 6 attack on its official website, formally abandoning the premise that presidential power should be constrained by evidence, courts, or shared reality. The newly launched The WhiteHouse.gov page does not merely reinterpret January 6 and dispute prosecutorial judgment. It asserts falsehoods as fact about one of the most exhaustively documented events in modern American history, using the institutional authority of the federal government to overwrite the evidentiary record.
O'DONNELL: Well, just after midnight, the night before Donald Trump left Washington headed for Israel and Egypt, he had one of his most serious hallucinations yet. It was another Trump self-administered dementia test that he published on social media. At 12:38 a.m., Donald Trump said the Biden FBI placed 274 agents into the crowd on January 6th. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a scam. Do something. Three exclamation points.
