Newsmax guest downplays Capitol insurrection as “a joy riding trespass ceremony with a bunch of grandmas”
Host Chris Salcedo: “To be fair, we've never called it an insurrection”
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Citation From the February 9, 2021, edition of Newsmax's The Chris Salcedo Show
NOEL FRITSCH (GUEST): You know, it's really funny about this insurrection thing. I would respectfully request that Newsmax stop calling it a riot, you know, and or whatever, an attack, or an insurrection. It's none of those things. This was like a joy riding trespass ceremony with a bunch of grandmas and, sadly, a couple people got hurt, and there was a little bit of violence, obviously.
CHRIS SALCEDO: (HOST): Hold on, hold on. To be fair, we've never called it an insurrection.
FRITSCH: Ok.
SALCEDO: We had Black Lives Matter and antifa folks -- the Chris Salcedo hasn't anyway -- we had BLM and antifa folks threatening to burn down the Capitol just this last weekend. And nobody in the basket of bias press was calling it an insurrection. However, I think it's fair to call what happened a riot. When you've got lawlessness and you've gotten violence and, you know, one Capitol police officer died. I think that's fair to call that a riot. So it is what it is. However, I don't think you look at January 6th. Yeah, I just don't think you look at January 6th and then and then tattoo every Trump supporter across the country as a domestic terrorist while you ignore actual domestic terrorists and BLM and antifa who have been plaguing this country for months.