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This Is Why Fox News Didn’t Televise Hearings: Nation Stunned by Officer Edward’s Testimony, the Violence She Fought Off

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Clearly, the target of the Select Committee hearings is Donald Trump. Whether he directly planned the attack or not, at the very least, he approved what was happening. But there is obviously much much more to prove that he likely did have a hand in planning the attack. First and foremost, no one would have planned such a violent plan without some kind of permission. And Trump did tell his crowd that they needed to “fight like hell.”

Additionally, the Committee won’t just focus on the planning. They’ll explore whether the plan led to the 187 minutes of inaction while Officer Edwards was knocked unconscious. It is bad enough that Trump put the blame on Nancy Pelosi (“Had she taken my advice, she would have had 20,000 troops surrounding the Capitol”). Donald Trump as president was the only one with the authority to call out the National Guard. There is no governor of Washington DC. It is the president’s job. Additionally, there is vague evidence that suggests that the Pentagon was kept away for as long as possible.

Evidence regarding the planning is to come. The Select Committee didn’t release evidence tying Trump directly to the plan on Thursday night. The task was to take viewers back to that day, January 6th. As Rachel Maddow just noted on MSNBC that crowd was not an unruly protest. That crowd was there to fight a war, and the crowd constituted the troops.

To demonstrate the “combat” that occurred that day and what the MAGAs were willing to do to follow Trump’s orders and “fight like hell,” they fought like hell and didn’t care if they near killed a police officer watching a barricade while doing it.

We saw Officer Caroline Edwards testify. She is young. She is poised. She is strong. She is a sworn police officer, someone we are supposed to respect to the point of calling them “Sir,” and “Maam” because that’s how society shows some respect to people who protect us. And forget even that for a moment, even if she was not a police officer, she is a human being, she is a woman, she showed up to do her job, and damn it, human beings deserved to be treated with dignity. And yet this happened.

This is why Fox News wouldn’t televise the hearing. This isn’t political. This is an outrage and hard to watch. No one came to her defense. It was a war, and she was the enemy.

And we’ve since learned that Fox News REALLY didn’t want their viewers watching the hearings…at least not watching them live. Fox News didn’t run commercials during Tucker Carlson’s show, lest his viewers quickly switch over to CNN or MSNBC (or the major news networks). They actually passed up all that sweet, sweet advertiser revenue, just to keep people glued to the TV screen.

They did show some of the hearings “live” on the side of the screen, but cut away whenever there was anything violent:

Sick.

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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