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Michael Fanone is All of Us
Monday, October 03, 2022
Michael Fanone
Michael Fanone, with his dog Buddy, doing his own version of taking back the Capitol in August.
In an extraordinarily candid interview with Rolling Stone, Michael Fanone – the Washington police officer who was seriously hurt at the US Capitol 1/6 attack – called the Republican House leader, potentially the next speaker, a “fucking weasel bitch”.
Link to story: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/michael-fanone-jan-6-book-congress-hawley-gaetz-trump-1234589772/
on Josh Hawley's Jan. 6 actions: "He comes down there, flashes the sign of solidarity, riles up this fucking crowd."
"He ran like a bitch as fast as he fucking could to the closest safe room in the fucking Capitol building."
on Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Put her in the tinfoil-hat brigade."
Fanone on Andrew Clyde: "When confronted in person, he fucking folded like a fucking deck of cards."
"I think at night, when the lights are turned off, Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan have some pretty choice words ... They've got to adorn the wall of this fucking weasel bitch named Kevin McCarthy, with his fake fucking spray-on tan."
Fanone's memoir , Hold the Line will be available at a bookseller near you on October 11, 2022.
Link to story: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/michael-fanone-jan-6-book-congress-hawley-gaetz-trump-1234589772/
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Fanone on Lemon
Officer Michael Fanone appeared on CNN's Don Lemon tonight to talk about his testimony to the January 6 Commission.
He also shares a voicemail he received while he was testifying. It's in this video below.
When asked how he felt about he voicemail, Fanone said "This is what happens to truth tellers in Trump's America".
They MUST Be Identified and Punished
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FROM AXIOS.COM:
1 big thing: Officers relive Jan. 6 terror

Photos (clockwise): D.C. Police Officer Daniel Hodges, D.C. Officer Michael Fanone, Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn. Credits: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP, Oliver Contreras via Getty Images, Jim Bourg via Getty Images, Chip Somodevilla/AFP.
As the House's Jan. 6 committee opened its hearings, carried live on TV around the world, four officers gave raw, emotional testimony that was shocking even to people who had closely followed coverage of the riot.
- Here's what the officers said (pictured clockwise above):
D.C. Police Officer Daniel Hodges: "The sea of people was punctuated throughout by flags — mostly variations of American flags and Trump flags. ... I saw the Christian flag directly to my front, and another had 'Jesus is my savior, Trump is my president.'" (Video)
D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone said he was "grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor to my country." (AP)
Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, an Army veteran who served in Iraq, said on Jan. 6 he was "more afraid to work at the Capitol than in my entire deployment." (Video)
- "The rioters called me traitor, a disgrace, and shouted that I, an Army veteran and a police officer, should be executed."
Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, a Black man, said several rioters called him a "f--king n-----" after he said he voted for President Biden in response to protesters claiming no one voted for him. (Video)
- Dunn said he continues to get counseling: "Jan. 6 still isn't over for me."
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