Episode 28: Terrorism Begins At Home

Political Junkie Podcast · Jun 21, 2023 · 38m

On January 6, 2021, thousands of Trump supporters, enraged by waves of misinformation and outright lies, attacked the federal government. They sought to prevent the counting of electoral votes that would mark Democrat Joe Biden’s victory—and incumbent President Donald Trump’s loss—in the 2020 election. The crowd called for Vice President Mike Pence’s death by hanging, and a noose had been prepared on the Capitol grounds. Pence’s offense was that he had refused to stop the count, an act he correctly understood as illegal and unconstitutional. Informed of this turn of events by an aide, Cassidy…