Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Muslims & Jews Is Running for Senate
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
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Tim Miller gives his take on the Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Donald Trump, who has not only avoided accountability, but is now running for Senate. This extremist attacked Capitol police, threatened Muslims and Jews, and continues to spread hate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. It's Tim Miller with a new bulwark take. Look, there's been so much happening out here that even though it's the fifth anniversary of January 6th, I wanted to take the day to focus on all the stuff Trump is doing now to attack our democracy and undermine us on the world stage. I had a great interview on the pod with John Blitzer talking about what's happening in |
| 0:21.4 | Venezuela. I talked about Trump's attacks on the First Amendment rights of Americans. We're speaking |
| 0:29.4 | out against him in that interview with Imran Ahmed. You should go check out if you haven't, |
| 0:35.5 | who is at risk of being deported right now, |
| 0:38.8 | despite having an American kid, American wife, and a green card, because he advocated |
| 0:45.7 | against some of the changes that Elon Musk made to X. And Trump's now doing Elon Musk a solid |
| 0:50.8 | and trying to send him out of the country. I thought they were all free speech absolutists. So, you know, I, that, what is happening now was so urgent. They wanted to focus on it. |
| 1:04.3 | But I felt remiss not talking a little bit about January 6th. There's so many other folks out there |
| 1:08.3 | who did these amazing retrospectives. For us, Bill Crystal talked to Tom Jocelyn, The Washington Post one is so good in |
| 1:14.6 | NPRs. |
| 1:16.9 | My new colleague, Sarah Matthews, who was actually there and quit that day on January 6th. |
| 1:21.7 | Did some great work over on TikTok. |
| 1:24.7 | And so rather than kind of do all that and get on my high horse, I just wanted to tell the one story of one of the people that was pardoned. |
| 1:31.4 | Uh, because I saw this video in yesterday and it incensed me. |
| 1:36.8 | And I'm hoping in particular that, um, |
| 1:41.6 | Republicans of good faith, that people that support Israel, might see this, might see this video, and think about what it is that they're supporting. |
| 1:56.2 | No, sorry, there are no Republicans in good faith. |
| 1:58.4 | And I'm hoping in particular that any Republicans |
| 2:02.9 | left with an ounce of possible concern about this country and what Donald Trump's doing |
| 2:09.4 | to it, or anybody who are supporters of Israel and are concerned about the anti-Semitism |
| 2:16.5 | in the country and the attacks that we're seeing. |
| 2:20.4 | I'm hoping that they might look at this and think about the fact that Donald Trump parted in this person |
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