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When Do Dems Give Media Gold Medals for Lying About Jan. 6?

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Instead of providing the Capitol Police backup on Jan. 6, 2021, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi gave them gold medals 23 months after the fact.
On Tuesday, Congress bestowed Congressional Gold Medals on Capitol Police officers and some family members for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021. A few of the recipients snubbed Republicans in the receiving line.
“Officers … shook hands with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as they accepted the medals,” Politico reported, “but quickly moved past the House and Senate Republican leaders — despite [Mitch] McConnell outstretching his hand.”
Almost all of the police acted bravely during the rioting — surely the officer who shot an unarmed woman behaving in an unruly manner (not heretofore grounds for summary execution) did not — but they did so because others in positions of greater power failed them.
It surely starts with sore losers casting a defeat by 74 electoral voters and seven million popular votes into a “landslide” victory stolen from them. Just as this group refused to accept results on Nov. 3, 2020, they refused to accept the Electoral College vote on Dec. 14 and congressional certification on Jan. 6. Some of the folks who marched to the Capitol violently objected to the results despite holding no chance to persuade the vice president or the legislators inside. To what end?
It should not have happened. But something happening seemed entirely predictable, which means entirely preventable.

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