Pro-Trump Jan. 6 ‘political prisoners’ rotting away in dedicated DC prison, without bail or trial

According to leftist journalist Glenn Greenwald, this repeated formulation of an "armed insurrection" is "crucial" for the Democrats, not only because it attempts to maximize fear of the party's political adversaries but because it "empowers the state with virtually unlimited powers to act against the citizenry." "What we know for sure is that no Trump supporter fired any weapon inside the Capitol and that the FBI seized a grand total of zero firearms from those it arrested that day - a rather odd state of affairs for an 'armed insurrection,' to put that mildly," he concluded (source).

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