DOJ is investigating Donald Trump's role in January 6: WaPo
The Rachel Maddow Show
Rachel Maddow, MS NOW
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🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We have got breaking news to get to tonight. |
| 0:03.0 | The Washington Post just out with this brand new reporting, Justice Department investigating |
| 0:07.7 | Trump's actions in January 6th, Criminal Probe. |
| 0:11.3 | We will get details from Carol Lenny, one of the reporters who broke that story and expert |
| 0:16.0 | legal guidance on what it all means. |
| 0:19.0 | But first, let's remember how we got here. |
| 0:22.2 | Today in Washington for only the second time a federal judge sentenced a January 6th |
| 0:27.3 | to more than five years in prison. |
| 0:30.4 | At 63 months, it is tied for the longest sentence ever imposed on a participant in the |
| 0:36.0 | Capitol attack. |
| 0:37.4 | And it's not hard to see why. |
| 0:39.1 | In screenshots taken from Officer Body Cams on January 6th, this guy is seen swinging |
| 0:44.8 | a pole at a police officer so hard it snaps into on the officer's riot shield. |
| 0:50.8 | So then the guy goes and finds another pole and starts swinging that one at officers. |
| 0:55.8 | The officer he hit with the first pole, the one he hit so hard, the pole snapped into. |
| 1:00.9 | That was Capitol Police Sergeant Ackolino Gonell. |
| 1:04.3 | Sergeant Gonell gave emotional testimony about the horror of that day to the January 6th investigation |
| 1:09.9 | last year. |
| 1:11.2 | And today he testified at that riotous sentencing hearing saying he suffered physical and mental |
| 1:16.1 | injuries from the attack that forced him to leave the police force. |
| 1:20.8 | After the guy with the poles was arrested, he said he attacked the police officers that |
| 1:24.5 | day because he believed Donald Trump's lies about the stolen election. |
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