On January 20th, 2017 — the day of Trump’s inauguration — a violent mob of Hillary Clinton supporters took to the streets of Washington DC to protest Trump’s election. Per CNN, “protestors smashed storefronts and bus stops, hammered out the windows of a limousine and eventually launched rocks at a phalanx of police.”
More than 200 arrests were made and 6 police officers were injured. The media didn’t condemn these individuals as “insurrectionists.” In fact, the media’s response was sympathetic. CNN quoted one protestor who claimed, “I understand why people are so frustrated.”
Another protestor justified the violence taking place throughout the country on Trump’s Inauguration Day, saying “We’re here to take a stand against the ideas that Trump spouted throughout the course of this campaign — sexism, Islamophobia, his bigotry and nationalism.”
This justification of violence echoed the outrageous accusations that Clinton herself made on the campaign trail. Recall the moment she infamously told a group of her supporters, “You know to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobia — you name it” — nearly verbatim the words from the protestor. But CNN and the Democratic Party didn’t accuse Hillary Clinton of inciting a violent insurrection in the Capitol back in 2017.
Democrats and the media railed against Trump supporters who believed the 2020 election was stolen. But they praised the protestors back in 2017, who railed against Trump and called him “illegitimate.”
As a matter of fact, more than two years after Trump’s inauguration, Hillary Clinton continued to claim that, “[Trump] knows he’s an illegitimate president.” Yet the Democratic Party and the media never accused Hillary Clinton of threatening our democracy. The Democratic Party is the party of lies.