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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

On the Chaos and Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Bakari sits down to briefly reflect on what happened today when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and disrupted the certification of the presidential election. Host: Bakari Sellers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So tomorrow the Bakari Sellers podcast will have our regularly scheduled

0:15.0

episode but given the extraordinary events that we all just

0:18.0

experienced as Trump supporters failed at a violent attempt at a coup

0:21.8

while we were trying to certify the Electoral College, I felt

0:25.3

compelled to call a spade a spade and prepare many of you for the road ahead.

0:30.5

Let's first call this what it is. It's white supremacist domestic terrorism.

0:35.3

And while we'd like to think that this was isolated to a handful of Trump supporters,

0:40.5

what we saw was the president's command to stand back and stand by in action.

0:47.0

And even after making a clear command to a supporters doing a prime time debate to engage in the kind of behavior that they engaged in today.

0:57.0

74 million Americans voted for him anyway.

1:01.0

So, this shameful chapter in our country's history is on all of you.

1:06.4

You know who else's fault this is?

1:08.6

The Republican members of Congress that trafficking the lies this president has told about the election

1:15.0

he lost.

1:16.2

I'm talking to you, Josh Holly.

1:18.8

I'm talking to you, Ted Cruz.

1:20.6

I'm talking to the Republican members of the South Carolina delegation,

1:24.2

William Timmons, Joe Wilson, Jeff Duncan, this is on you. Your cowardice is

1:31.3

the reason we're in this position today.

1:34.0

Because as you set safely in bunkers on Capitol Hill,

1:38.0

you were shielded from the consequences of the dangerous rhetoric around Stola and

1:42.4

elections that you all have been peddling since

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