managing committee Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democratic senators recounted their experiences during floor speeches on January 6, before holding a moment of silence to celebrate the Senate’s one-year anniversary on Thursday. Capital attack.
Schumer recalls footage shared during former presidency ‘within 30 feet of these dirty, racist, fanatical rebels’ Donald TrumpThe second impeachment of the New York Democrat’s narrow escape.
Schumer said, ‘I was told later that one of them reportedly said, ‘There’s a big Jew, let’s get him.’ He said, ‘There is bigotry against one, bigotry against all.’
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democratic senators recounted their experiences during House speeches on January 6, before the Senate held a moment of silence Thursday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Capitol attack.
Corey Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, presides over the Senate’s moment of silence on the anniversary of Jan. Across the Capitol, the House of Representatives held a moment of silence at the same time.
In a security video shared during the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump, Schumer can be seen leaving the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.
Schumer and his security detail can be seen running in the opposite direction after facing the MAGA crowd during the January 6 Uprising.
The anti-Semitic anecdote was originally told The New York Times in March,
“And I saw something I was told later that had never happened before — the Confederate flag flying in this lovely Capitol,” Schumer continued.
“This is one of the strangest pictures of this unimaginable, most un-American day,” he said.
Democratic senators line up to deliver a speech to mark the one-year anniversary.
Several of his Republican counterparts were out of town for the funeral of the late Sen. Johnny Isaacson.
Earlier, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sent out a statement calling January 6 a “black day for Congress and our country,” but Democrats tried to pass voting rights legislation by tying the bill to the anniversary of the deadly attack. Reprimanded.
Several Democratic senators made reference to the voting rights bill – which has been bogged down in the Upper House because of its filibuster rules – when they spoke on the floor on Thursday.
Schumer has insisted on changing the filibuster rules in order to get the bill.
“Senators should not try to take advantage of this anniversary to harm the Senate in a different way,” McConnell said.
At noon, Democrat Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey was in the chair and announced a moment of silence.
Across the Capitol, in the House Chamber, MPs were also observing silence.
When it came time to speak, Democrat Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota called her Republican colleagues by name.
Smith said that after the rebellion ‘some Republicans had spoken the truth about the terrible tragedy of that day.’
’ Senator McConnell said, and I quote, “The crowd was fed lies. They were instigated by the president and other powerful people,” Smith said. ‘Sen. Lindsey Graham, sitting there, references the disgraced former president. declared in, “Count me, enough.”
Graham followed suit after President Joe Biden made remarks on Thursday morning speech in a tweetCall it ‘shameless politicization of 6th January’.
“So for a moment, it seemed that we would be united in condemning the political violence instigated by a president who betrayed our fundamental democratic principles,” Smith said. ‘But later that night, Sen. Cruz, Sen. Hawley and six other senators continued down this reckless path and voted to overturn our free and fair elections.’
Smith called out the GOP for pushing Trump’s so-called ‘big lie’.
‘They claim that the people who stormed the Capitol with zip-ties and bludgeons were tourists. They have tried to portray the violent insurgents as martyrs instead of domestic terrorists,’ she said. ‘And that’s why 58 percent of Republicans today falsely believe the election was stolen from President Trump.’
Vermont Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy remembered a law enforcement officer calling him a ‘shamrock’ on January 6. “A lot of memories came back because Shamrock was a police codename for me when I was about to receive a deadly anthrax letter,” Leahy said.
During his time on the floor, Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy—Vermont’s longest-serving member—served as a teenager and later as a law student before being sworn in in 1975. visited. asked to leave.
‘I never expected to be dean of the Senate. A year ago I was sitting on the floor of the Senate when Vice President Pence was announcing the certification of ballots,’ he began.
‘We were all noticing in the Senate that suddenly the officers came running to the floor … Most of us – I remember you looking around you to see what was going on?
When I looked a few feet away from me, I saw a man wearing a vest with ‘Police’ written on it. He was carrying a submachine gun on the floor of the Senate. I had never seen anything like this in the US Senate.
Lehi then describes moving to the capitol’s basement and a safe place amid the chaos of the riots.
‘I still tried to figure out with my mind what was going on. Officers were going into the hall when an officer came along and took my hand and he said,’ Lehi said, pausing to collect herself.
‘ They said, “We’re going to look for you, Shamrock,” he said. ‘So many memories came back because Shamrock was a police codename for me,’ Leahy recalled, when I received a deadly anthrax letter addressed to me and killed the others.