‘I was there’: Democrat recalls horror and fury on day of Capitol attack
by David Smith in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#5TQ9X)
Representative Dean Phillips describes the day that changed him' after a pro-Tump mob overran police and reached the doors of the House chamber
It was a visceral cry at the moment of maximum peril for American democracy.
A furious mob had overrun police and was nearly at the door of the House of Representatives. Inside the chamber, Republican Paul Gosar was launching a spurious challenge to Joe Biden's election victory in Arizona.
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