Pennsylvania GOP Lawmakers Boo & Jeer Police Officers Who Defended Capitol On Jan. 6 During Speeches
In a stark display of the continued partisan divide over the January 6 attack, two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on the fateful day faced a hostile reception from GOP lawmakers at a visit to the Pennsylvania state House on Wednesday.
Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and former U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell were introduced by Democratic state House Speaker Joanna McClinton as part of their statewide tour to discuss the threat to American democracy. However, their appearance was met with jeers, boos and walkouts from a majority of Republican lawmakers, while Democrats in the chamber stood and applauded the officers.
The stark contrast in reactions underscores the deep political chasm that remains over the events of January 6, 2021. Democrats praised the former officers’ heroism and sacrifice, while Republicans, many of whom have continued to downplay or deny the severity of the attack, responded with derision and disrespect.
Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and former U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell were introduced by Democratic state House Speaker Joanna McClinton as part of their statewide tour to discuss the threat to American democracy. However, their appearance was met with jeers, boos and walkouts from a majority of Republican lawmakers, while Democrats in the chamber stood and applauded the officers.
The stark contrast in reactions underscores the deep political chasm that remains over the events of January 6, 2021. Democrats praised the former officers’ heroism and sacrifice, while Republicans, many of whom have continued to downplay or deny the severity of the attack, responded with derision and disrespect.
- 6/9/2024
- by Baila Eve Zisman
- Uinterview
Eric Trump, the son of former President Donald Trump, was criticized for posting a statement about his family’s “sacrifice” on social media.
In a post on X on May 24, Eric replied to another post made on the same day by the pro-maga X account.
The post included an image of himself, his wife, Lara Trump, his father, former first lady Melania Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle standing together.
“The family that gave up everything to Save America,” the caption in Freedom’s post read. “Thank You!”
“And we will do it again,” the former president’s son wrote in response to the post.
During Memorial Day weekend, X users slammed Eric for the out-of-touch statement.
“Particularly disgusting to post this on Memorial Day weekend,” neoconservative writer Bill Kristol wrote in a post.
“I wasn’t going to tweet anything political this weekend, but I have...
In a post on X on May 24, Eric replied to another post made on the same day by the pro-maga X account.
The post included an image of himself, his wife, Lara Trump, his father, former first lady Melania Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle standing together.
“The family that gave up everything to Save America,” the caption in Freedom’s post read. “Thank You!”
“And we will do it again,” the former president’s son wrote in response to the post.
During Memorial Day weekend, X users slammed Eric for the out-of-touch statement.
“Particularly disgusting to post this on Memorial Day weekend,” neoconservative writer Bill Kristol wrote in a post.
“I wasn’t going to tweet anything political this weekend, but I have...
- 5/29/2024
- by Alessio Atria
- Uinterview
The hosts of “Morning Joe” were disgusted Thursday morning after a Capitol police officer who was injured during the Jan. 6 insurrection revealed that most of the Republican lawmakers he protected that day avoid interacting with him.
During his appearance on the show, Aquilino Gonell recounted his experience from the historic day, telling the hosts he spent “almost five hours” fighting rioters as they stormed the Capitol. He added that it’s still hard to process what happened despite a good recovery process – particularly when all but two Republicans ignore him now.
“You have a lot of the people we protected on that day downplaying what happened. Sometimes I run into them in the hallway, and they pretend not to see me,” Gonell said. “They avoid me or bolt to the right or to the left or pretend to be doing something else.”
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During his appearance on the show, Aquilino Gonell recounted his experience from the historic day, telling the hosts he spent “almost five hours” fighting rioters as they stormed the Capitol. He added that it’s still hard to process what happened despite a good recovery process – particularly when all but two Republicans ignore him now.
“You have a lot of the people we protected on that day downplaying what happened. Sometimes I run into them in the hallway, and they pretend not to see me,” Gonell said. “They avoid me or bolt to the right or to the left or pretend to be doing something else.”
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- 7/14/2022
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn is setting the record straight: He does not accept convicted rioter Stephen Ayres’ apology, despite what a viral social media post may imply.
Following Tuesday’s Jan. 6 House committee hearing, Ayres – who testified that then President Donald Trump was “riling up” his supporters to march on the Capitol – approached Dunn and fellow Capitol officers Michael Fanone and Aquilino Gonell to offer his apologies. The moment was captured and circulated online, with one Twitter user captioning the image “An apology given and accepted.”
However, that does not appear to be the case.
Just 27 minutes after the above was posted to Twitter, Dunn quote tweeted the note with his own correction, implying that the apology was given, but he did not accept it.
*Apology given… https://t.co/GwoJw8Nfco
— Harry A Dunn...
Following Tuesday’s Jan. 6 House committee hearing, Ayres – who testified that then President Donald Trump was “riling up” his supporters to march on the Capitol – approached Dunn and fellow Capitol officers Michael Fanone and Aquilino Gonell to offer his apologies. The moment was captured and circulated online, with one Twitter user captioning the image “An apology given and accepted.”
However, that does not appear to be the case.
Just 27 minutes after the above was posted to Twitter, Dunn quote tweeted the note with his own correction, implying that the apology was given, but he did not accept it.
*Apology given… https://t.co/GwoJw8Nfco
— Harry A Dunn...
- 7/13/2022
- by Brandon Katz
- The Wrap
Among the many bombshell takeaways from the ongoing Jan. 6 committee hearings on Capitol Hill is Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony detailing former president Donald Trump’s behavior through the hours of the insurrection last year. In Monday’s episode of “Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough surmised that Trump siding with the rioters (“We love you. You are very special”), allegedly fighting with his own Secret Service personnel and more indicates a major hypocrisy within the Republican party and among those who support Trump: “Why do Republicans hate police offers?” he said.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski opened the segment by reading from a New York Times op-ed that ran on Sunday; it was written by Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell and titled “I Was Betrayed By President Trump.”
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Co-host Mika Brzezinski opened the segment by reading from a New York Times op-ed that ran on Sunday; it was written by Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell and titled “I Was Betrayed By President Trump.”
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- 7/11/2022
- by Benjamin Lindsay
- The Wrap
Update: The impact of the January 6th Committee hearing was probably felt more in the Cannon Caucus Room than outside of it: As an extended video was played of the attack, it was particularly wrenching for the lawmakers, law enforcement and members of the media who were there that day and witnessed it.
But the hearing itself went by rather briskly relative to other congressional events, as the committee seemed to want to give a taste of their case ahead — that Trump is to blame for what happened on January 6th. The bits of revelation were like teasers of the topics for the hearings ahead.
“What happened on January 6th is kind of the end of the story, but really the root of it is that Trump was determined to stay in power, regardless of the election,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-wa) said afterward.
As the committee’s vice chair, Rep.
But the hearing itself went by rather briskly relative to other congressional events, as the committee seemed to want to give a taste of their case ahead — that Trump is to blame for what happened on January 6th. The bits of revelation were like teasers of the topics for the hearings ahead.
“What happened on January 6th is kind of the end of the story, but really the root of it is that Trump was determined to stay in power, regardless of the election,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-wa) said afterward.
As the committee’s vice chair, Rep.
- 6/9/2022
- by Ted Johnson and Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated, with additional coverage details: The first anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will be marked by continuous coverage across the broadcast and cable news networks, as reporters and anchors recount the events of that day while sharing plenty of consternation over what has happened since.
The political polarization that has gripped Washington, and much of the country, will be evident by who is expected to participate in commemoration events. Few Republicans are expected, with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Senate and House Democratic leaders slated to speak at a ceremony Thursday morning.
Former President Donald Trump, whose false claims that the election was stolen from him led his supporters to storm the Capitol, nixed plans to hold a press conference at Mar-a-Lago that would have been a kind of counterprogramming to the D.C. events. While there were reports that Trump’s...
The political polarization that has gripped Washington, and much of the country, will be evident by who is expected to participate in commemoration events. Few Republicans are expected, with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Senate and House Democratic leaders slated to speak at a ceremony Thursday morning.
Former President Donald Trump, whose false claims that the election was stolen from him led his supporters to storm the Capitol, nixed plans to hold a press conference at Mar-a-Lago that would have been a kind of counterprogramming to the D.C. events. While there were reports that Trump’s...
- 1/6/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Networks are starting to roll out their plans to mark the one-year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
ABC News plans daylong coverage on that date, led by World News Tonight anchor David Muir and under the banner “Attack on the Capitol: One Year Later.” Muir has interviewed Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, and Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges, in their first joint sit-down interview, with plans to air it on World News News Tonight on January 5 and also on Nightline.
On This Week with George Stephanopoulos on January 2, Stephanopoulos will interview Rep. Liz Cheney (R-wy), the vice chair of the House’s January 6th Committee, and co-anchor Jonathan Karl will look at the aftermath of the riot. Co-anchor Martha Raddatz will look at the rise of military extremism since the attach, and she reconnected with a participant she met as she was covering the siege.
ABC News plans daylong coverage on that date, led by World News Tonight anchor David Muir and under the banner “Attack on the Capitol: One Year Later.” Muir has interviewed Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, and Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges, in their first joint sit-down interview, with plans to air it on World News News Tonight on January 5 and also on Nightline.
On This Week with George Stephanopoulos on January 2, Stephanopoulos will interview Rep. Liz Cheney (R-wy), the vice chair of the House’s January 6th Committee, and co-anchor Jonathan Karl will look at the aftermath of the riot. Co-anchor Martha Raddatz will look at the rise of military extremism since the attach, and she reconnected with a participant she met as she was covering the siege.
- 12/21/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Washington — Even before the first hearing of the House select committee to investigate the January 6th insurrection began on Tuesday morning, one question loomed large: Why was law enforcement so utterly unprepared for the violence and upheaval of that day?
The testimony given Tuesday by four police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6th — two from the Capitol Police, two from Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department — only heightened the need for answers as to how thousands of pro-Trump rioters breached the Capitol’s security perimeter and hundreds...
The testimony given Tuesday by four police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6th — two from the Capitol Police, two from Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department — only heightened the need for answers as to how thousands of pro-Trump rioters breached the Capitol’s security perimeter and hundreds...
- 7/27/2021
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
On the first day of the House select committee investigation into the January 6th insurrection, officers from the U.S. Capitol Police and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department who responded that day gave harrowing testimony about the abuse they endured at the hands of an angry mob of Trump supporters.
“That day continues to be a constant trauma for us, literally every day,” Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell, who suffered severe injuries and has been on leave for most of the months following the insurrection, told the committee on Tuesday.
“That day continues to be a constant trauma for us, literally every day,” Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell, who suffered severe injuries and has been on leave for most of the months following the insurrection, told the committee on Tuesday.
- 7/27/2021
- by Peter Wade and Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
More than six months after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, viewers will get to hear firsthand accounts of what happened on January 6 at the first hearing of a select House committee set up to investigate the insurrection.
Broadcast and cable networks plan to carry all or parts of the first hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Or you can watch the livestream here:
Scheduled to testify are four law enforcement officers who will share their accounts: They include Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, and Metropolitan Police officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges.
It’s taken months to get a committee up and running amid opposition from Republicans. They blocked an earlier plan to set up an independent bipartisan commission to investigate Jan. 6, similar to one that was set up after 9/11. Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
Broadcast and cable networks plan to carry all or parts of the first hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Or you can watch the livestream here:
Scheduled to testify are four law enforcement officers who will share their accounts: They include Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, and Metropolitan Police officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges.
It’s taken months to get a committee up and running amid opposition from Republicans. They blocked an earlier plan to set up an independent bipartisan commission to investigate Jan. 6, similar to one that was set up after 9/11. Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
- 7/27/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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