A wounded ex-Capitol cop rips Trump & the GOP for their attempted cover-up of the Jan 6 violence
On the eve of the anniversary of a violent insurrection, ex-US Capitol Police Officer Sgt. Aquilino Gonell wrote a guest essay for this Sunday’s New York Times. In the piece, For Many of Us, Jan. 6 Never Ended, Gonell gives an eyewitness account of the fatal riot. A summary of its tragic aftermath. And his opinion of the spineless GOP politicians who maintain it was ‘no biggie’.
In doing so, he contrasts his hardscrabble life and career with the gilded, silver-spoon existence of the attempted insurrection’s chief architect and instigator, the convicted felon Trump.
Gonell says that the physical and psychological pain of Jan 6 is still fresh four years later — while most Americans have moved on. He explains it was a bloody battle no matter how the MAGA apologists might try to whitewash it.
“For my efforts doing my duty as a Capitol Police sergeant, I was beaten and struck by raging rioters all over my body with multiple weapons until I was covered in my own blood. My hand, foot and shoulder were wounded. I thought I was going to die and never make it home to see my wife and young son.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/5/2294828/-A-wounded-ex-Capitol-cop-rips-Trump-the-GOP-for-their-attempted-cover-up-of-the-Jan-6-violence
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