Week Of Accountability: Right-wingers Begin To Face Consequences
Arizona Republican faces censure vote Wednesday
This week is proving to offer some good news for those concerned that those among the right-wing appeared, increasingly, able to commit severe transgressions and wrongdoing yet avoid significant consequences for those actions.
Former top advisor to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, was forced to turn himself in Monday after being indicted for defying a congressional subpoena from the House select committee investigating the events of the January 6 insurrection.
And now, Tuesday, comes news that the Democratic leadership in the House plans to take action against Republican Rep Paul Gosar, of Arizona, for vile animated content created by his staffers and released online last week, which depict Gosar violently attacking and killing Democratic Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, as well as President Biden.
The House leadership team has scheduled a vote Wednesday which would censure Gosar for the vile cartoon, as well as pull him off of his seat on the prominent House Oversight and Reform Committee.
Speaking to mainstream news media, Gosar apparently had no immediate comments on the forthcoming sanction.
“Walking into votes, Rep. Paul Gosar refused to answer any questions about his tweet of violent video. He wouldn’t say if he regretted it or explain the claim he made internally that he didn’t see the violent episode in the video before he tweeed [sic] it out. He walked in silence,” tweeted longtime CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju.
However, Gosar's very talkative with right-wing media receptive to his talking points, issuing a rambling statement.
Ocasio-Cortez, one of the targets of Gosar's violent depictions, reportedly said that she believes that what happened was no accident.
“Rep. AOC to Punchbowl: Gosar and other Republicans ‘are essentially using a national platform to legitimize threats of violence on lower levels, and on the local levels, to intimidate people from participating in our democracy. I believe this is part of a concerted strategy,’” according to a tweet from MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin.
And, finally, in Kenosha, Wis., where jury deliberations have begun in the trial of shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, tensions are apparently running high.
Rittenhouse has become a cause celebre among the right-wing and a celebration of white privilege and gun culture, with many expecting the shooter to receive little — if any — punishment for his actions.
“Things are getting testy outside the Kenosha courthouse as the jury deliberates,” attorney Ron Filipkowski tweeted with video of a scuffle outside the courthouse.
Rittenhouse faces charges in connection with killing two men and wounding another last year in Kenosha while underage with an AR weapon.
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