By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and CAL WOODWARD WASHINGTON (AP) — Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day…
That every voting American doesn’t know the details of exactly how Donald Trump tried to steal the election and that the riot was only a small part of it is a huge failure of our press.
Riot, noun
1 a: a violent public disorder
specifically : a tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled together and acting with a common intent
1 b: public violence, tumult, or disorder https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riot
That every voting American doesn’t know the details of exactly how Donald Trump tried to steal the election and that the riot was only a small part of it is a huge failure of our press.
Small nit: it wasn’t a riot. But agreed to all of the rest.
Yes it was.
It was also an insurrection:
The usual connotation for a riot is that it was unplanned.
The terrorist attack on the Capitol was gamed out for months beforehand.