GOP sells lies

Editor, Gettysburg Times,

It is amusing to read the letter of Michael Hutchison in Friday’s Gettysburg Times accusing Dr. Zimmann of trying to alter history at a time when the GOP is working overtime to erase the Republican attack on the Capital on Jan. 6. The FBI has called this attack the work of Domestic Terrorists and the aftermath the most extensive criminal investigation in the history of our country! Hundreds of Republicans have been indicted and the number keeps growing day after day!

But the GOP is trying sell the lie that these thugs were only visitors to the Capital; this in spite of the extensive film clips, with cries of “Hang Mike Pence!” and scenes where the attackers were using pepper spray and using clubs and flag poles to smash the Capital police. We have a recording from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pleading with the President to call off his thugs, stating that Trump “bears the responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters” (he later changed his tune, but the recording remains); We also have a recording of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel telling the American people that President Trump was “morally responsible” for the attack!

Our own PA Senator Mastriano seems to be talking out of both sides of his mouth when he said, initially, that when the attack turned violent, he left the scene. But he later said that the information about the attack was propaganda!

Meanwhile, in Congress, the Republicans refuse to agree to a bipartisan investigation into the attack; they had 30 investigations aimed at Hillary, but they certainly do not want more people to learn about what happened on January 6!

This seems to be the face of the new GOP; if they cannot get their way from the ballot box, and they cannot get their way in the courts, they resort to violence! And erasing history!

Norman K. Nunamaker,

Gettysburg