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On the official website of the White House, January 6 is referred to as a day that will live in infamy.

And this is what the website has to say about that day that we all live through.

We all witnessed.

We all know what happened.

And I'm assuming this was written.

Yes, it was written in the wake of his egregious pardons of the almost 1,500 insurrectionists

who were indicted, tried, and in many cases sentenced in the wake of their committing horrific crimes against the United States

of America and its people. Donald took decisive action to pardon January 6 defendants who were

unfairly targeted, overcharged, and used as political examples. They were not protected by the leaders who failed them. They were

punished to cover incompetence. That is the official record of January 6th. All day today,

I've been feeling weird. Imagine, if you will, we were told in the aftermath of September 11th,

that September 11th hadn't happened. Imagine if those of us who were actually driving

into Manhattan while the planes flew into the World Trade Center, those of us who were actually driving into Manhattan while the planes flew into the World Trade Center,

those of us who were in the building, those of us who witnessed the horrific death of so many Americans,

those of us who know people, who died trying to save the people trapped in the

building, didn't happen.

Didn't happen.

In a way, September 11th was essentially used for the malign purposes of the Bush administration.

September 11th presented this country and indeed the world with a unique opportunity to fix things.

But the people in power had other ideas and understood that their best course of action was to do what

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