I agree the title should label it as such; however, Smith does call it an insurrection and “coup attempt” at the hearing multiple times, if that matters.
We had an elector in Pennsylvania who is a former congressman, who was going to be an elector for President Trump, who said that what they were trying to do was an attempt to overthrow the government and illegal," Smith said.
Smith said that Trump in the weeks leading to the insurrection got “people to believe fraud claims that weren’t true.”
The media has done a lot of that sort of thing since J6. Even with Donvict out of office, they’d often resort to calling it a “riot”. Probably the nicest thing you could say was that it was insurrection, it’s probably more accurate to call it an act of terrorism, and the participants that planned by bringing weapons and cable ties and so on are terrorists.
But the pussies in the media kept shying away from calling this even an insurrection, FFS.
“Insurrection” or “coup attempt,” not “riot.”
I agree the title should label it as such; however, Smith does call it an insurrection and “coup attempt” at the hearing multiple times, if that matters.
Nice to know it’s NPR to blame for engaging in disinformation by downplaying it, not Jack Smith himself. Thanks!
The media has done a lot of that sort of thing since J6. Even with Donvict out of office, they’d often resort to calling it a “riot”. Probably the nicest thing you could say was that it was insurrection, it’s probably more accurate to call it an act of terrorism, and the participants that planned by bringing weapons and cable ties and so on are terrorists.
But the pussies in the media kept shying away from calling this even an insurrection, FFS.
That’s not quite it either. From the transcript: