Officer Michael Fanone Blasts “Disgraceful” Republicans For Betraying Their Oath Of Office

Officer Michael Fanone described the trauma of the 1/6 attack, and called Republicans disgraceful and said they betrayed their oath of office.

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Officer Michael Fanone raises his dependable and pounds the array portion telling Republicans that their minimizing of the onslaught and indifference shown to the constabulary who protected them is disgraceful. pic.twitter.com/rUjTIFzYw4

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) July 27, 2021

Fanone said astatine the archetypal 1/6 Committee hearing:

At the hospital, doctors told me that I had suffered a heart attack and I   later was diagnosed with a concussion, a traumatic encephalon injury, and posttraumatic accent disorder. As my carnal injuries gradually subsided and the adrenaline that had stayed with me for weeks waned, I person been left with the psychological trauma and the emotional anxiety of having survived such a horrific event. 

My children proceed to deal with the trauma of nearly losing their dada that day. What makes the conflict harder and much achy is to cognize so many of my chap citizens, including truthful galore of the people I enactment my beingness astatine hazard to defend, are downplaying or outright denying what happened. I consciousness similar I went to hellhole and back to support them and the people successful this room. But excessively galore are telling me that hellhole doesn’t exist. Or that hellhole wasn’t actually that bad. The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful. 

Fanone:  Republicans Betrayed Their Oath Of Office

Officer Fanone says Republicans betrayed their oath of bureau by denying and minimizing the 1/6 attack. pic.twitter.com/9CPYgk9ziq

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) July 27, 2021

Officer Fanone said, “Being an officer, you cognize your life is astatine hazard erstwhile you walk out the door. Even if you don’t expect otherwise law-abiding citizens to instrumentality up arms against you. But nothing, genuinely nothing, has prepared maine to code those elected members of our government who proceed to deny the events of that day. And successful doing so, betrayed their oath of office. Those precise members whose lives come offices, unit members I was trying truthful desperately to defend.”

The Republican Downplaying Of The 1/6 Attack Has Taken Center Stage At The Hearing

The constabulary are making the Republican downplaying what they suffered a cardinal contented of the proceeding due to the fact that 1 can’t perceive the stories of however brave instrumentality enforcement officers fought to support the Capitol without besides proceeding astir however Republicans person tried to diminish and downplay what happened.

Fanone is right. The behaviour of astir Republicans has been disgraceful, and it deserves to beryllium exposed connected the nation’s largest governmental stage.