Michael Fanone Hits ‘Spineless’ Matt Gaetz And Allies With The Facts About Jan. 6

On Feb 7, 2024

Former D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone slammed dozens of House Republicans led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) who on Tuesday launched a decision declaring Donald Trump didn’t interact in riot.

Fanone, who was violently assaulted by the previous president’s supporters throughout the Jan. 6, 2021, assault, known as for Gaetz and each supporter of the decision to be held accountable for his or her lies and efforts to undermine democracy.

“This resolution is a slap in the face to those of us who almost lost everything defending the Capitol on January 6th, including protecting some of the very Members of Congress who are now attempting to rewrite history to exonerate former President Trump,” Fanone stated in an announcement through Courage for America, an anti-extremism group.

“But no piece of paper signed by a group of spineless extremists will ever change the facts about that dark day: the insurrection was violent, it was deadly and it will happen again if we do not expunge the MAGA ideology that stoked the flames of insurrection in the first place.”

Gaetz and 62 House Republicans signed on to the symbolic decision which states that Trump “did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or give aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

It serves to downplay Trump’s function within the lethal riot as courts and election officers weigh whether or not he’s eligible to look on numerous state ballots below the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.

The modification, launched after the Civil War, prohibits anybody from holding state or federal workplace in the event that they took an oath to uphold the Constitution however then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” towards it.

The Colorado Supreme Court dominated in December that Trump is disqualified from showing on the state’s 2024 presidential major ballots below the measure. The U.S. Supreme Court has since agreed to evaluate the choice, which might settle the matter nationwide.