Blue Lives really don’t matter to fanatic MAGAt supporters of Donald Trump.
After testifying on Tuesday before the House Select Committee to investigate the 1/6 Capitol insurrection, D.C. Metropolitan Officer Michael Fanone was interviewed Tuesday night on Don Lemon’s CNN show.
During his testimony, Fanone described that he was dragged into the crowd of insurrectionists and was shocked repeatedly with a stun gun, beaten with metal pipes and nearly killed. He suffered a heart attack, a concussion, and has been suffering since the insurrection with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
At the end of his testimony, Fanone pounded his fist on the table and admonished those Republicans who have tried to whitewash what happened on Jan. 6. Raising his voice, he said, “The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful.”
On Lemon’s CNN show, Fanone revealed that while he was testifying, he received a voicemail from a Trump supporter that was left on his phone. He insisted that Lemon play the voicemail uncensored. It is replete with repeated obscenities and homophobic slurs.
The voicemail is played at the 6-minute mark.
“You want an Emmy? An Oscar? What are you trying to go for here?” the male caller said. “You’re so full of s—.t, you little fa--ot fuc--er.” The call just goes on with homophobic and racial slurs, profanities and other insults.
Fanone told Lemon that his immediate reaction to the voicemail was: “This is what happens to people who tell the truth in Trump’s America.”
Now MAGAts are not known for original thinking. So where did that notion that Fanone was just putting on an act worthy of an Oscar or Emmy come from.
Let’s play Jeopardy. Put your answer in the form of a question. Who are Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham?
This was from Ingraham’s show on Tuesday night. She handed out mock awards to Fanone and the other officers who testified as well as to Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) ,
Meanwhile, in a related development, The Huffington Post reported that federal authorities have arrested a Trump supporter, Samuel Lazar, in Pennsylvania on Monday who was caught on video bragging about macing police during the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot.
In the months after the Capitol attack, Lazar attended political events in support of TFG and his political allies. He was photographer several times with Trump favorite State Sen. Doug Mastriano, who is a leading promulgator of the Big Lie and is expected to run for governor of Pennsylvania. Mastriano chartered buses for the Jan. 6 pro-Trump rally and was near Trump supporters outside the Capitol.
In early June, Lazar showed up wearing a “Back the Blue” T-shirt at an event that featured Mastriano.
Lazar faces multiple felony charges for his actions on Jan. 6, including assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers as well as obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder. He also faces a charge of knowingly entering and remaining on restricted grounds. Here is a link to Mazar’s arrest warrant.
Online sleuths identified Lazar as #FacePaintBlowhard. He was recorded as saying that the crowd “maced ‘em (law enforcement officers) right the f—k back” and talked about how the mob should “hang these motherf----kers” in the Capitol building.
So black and blue lives really don’t matter to these MAGAts, but they are ready to beat anyone who stands in their way black and blue.