On the campaign trail, I get asked a lot of awkward questions: “How did it feel when Trump’s supporters wanted to hang you?”; “What was your plan if they started to hang you?”; “Did you not get in the Secret Service’s car because you worried they’d take you somewhere they could string you up?”; “If it had to happen, what did you want to be hanged from?”
These are challenging and important questions, but I’m here to tell you it’s unfair to paint the January 6 demonstrators with such a broad brush. A wide-ranging collection of people with many different beliefs was involved that day. Yet, in what should come as no surprise, you wouldn’t know it from the slanted coverage.