Dan Bongino
Following Wednesday's riot at the U.S. Capitol, in which police officers shot and killed one woman and three other people died with medical issues, media outlets across the nation condemned President Trump and his supporters both.
There were calls for long prison terms for anyone caught in the Capitol, and multiple individuals demanded the immediate removal from office of the president.
But the media, earlier in the year when President Trump was under threat of violence from leftist mobs, instead of being concerned, made jokes, according to political commentator Dan Bongino.
He was discussing the Wednesday violence, which followed a Trump rally in Washington and possibly involved both Trump supporters as well as leftists portraying themselves as Trump supporters, with Fox News personality Sean Hannity.
He recalled the situation last May, during the riots that erupted nationwide when a black man died at the hands of police in Minneapolis, when Secret Service officials took President Trump to a secure location because of the threats from mobs outside the White House.
The president reportedly was in the secure "bunker" for only a short time. But the Associated Press said it happened because law enforcement struggled to contain the violent crowds at Lafayette Park.
Bongino said, "I understand the Constitution was not designed to be a suggestion. The Constitution was supposed to constitute something, a guiding set of principles going forward.
"That's evaporated Sean. Let me do you one better on media hypocrisy. We have roundly condemned the violence tonight on this network, everyone, period. Where was the media Sean when my Secret Service friends were calling me, with a mob outside of the White House during the summer of protest. who were genuinely in fear for the first time…"
He continued, "I am not kidding this is not a joke, I was on the receiving end of those calls. They felt like there was a chance the White House could fall that night. Where was the media the next day? They were making fun of President Trump for being evacuated by his security detail, not his choice, into the bunker. That was their narrative the next day."
He demanded, "Where were the mass condemnations there, where was that? The answer is it wasn't there. It became an opportunity to take out Trump. Because why? There isn't one guiding set of principles in this country. And that why the media tonight, while we're condemning the violence, is obsessed that we don't mention an autopsy of how we got here because of their role in it. The Chris Cuomos of the world, who was wondering, where it says you should assemble in peace, in the damn Constitution knucklehead! Did you read the peaceable assembly line?
"That's where it says it. … The only people freaking out tonight are the people without principles. And that's not me and that's not anyone else I know here," he said.
"We have roundly condemned the violence tonight on this network. Everyone. Period. That's it. Where was the media when my Secret Service friends were calling me with a mob outside of the WH during the summer of protest? ... Where were the mass condemnations there?" - @dbongino
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