Chris Coons Changes the Subject to Trump, Jan. 6 When Pressed on Schumer Remarks – Opinion

While appearing on “Fox News Sunday” with Bret Baier, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) came up with a novel way to answer a question about the dangerous rhetoric Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) used during a 2020 pro-abortion rally, which I previously wrote about.

Chuck Schumer, a Supreme Court justice, said about Justices Gorsuch & Kavanaugh “You’ve released the whirlwind” and that they would be paying the consequences. “You won’t even know what happened to you.”

Democrat Sen. Chris Coons claims it’s OK because Schumer was “upset” and “alarmed”. pic.twitter.com/p3dJXRzO6U

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He switched the subject to Former President Donald Trump, and January 6, Capitol riot.

Transcript, via Breitbart News

BAIER: It’s all right. We’ll get there in January 6. This week, the law was made about words. How important are they? What amount of stirring is too much. Giving the go-ahead to violence in any form or manner, has never been acceptable.

Listen to the following.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP).

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, D-NY: Gorsuch, I’m going to tell the truth. Kavanaugh, the Whirlwind has been released and you will be punished.

(CHEERS)

You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.

(END VIDEO CLIP).

BAIER: Did those words, Senator, qualify on the Supreme Court steps?

COONS: So here’s a key distinction. Schumer said that he was angry. His concern was not that justices would revoke decades of an established fundamental constitutional right. What he did not say was let’s go attack them.

This hearing was held on January 6, 2017. It is intended to show that President Trump actually did that, and that, according to Congresswoman Cheney, he summoned the crowd, stirred the mob up, then set off the fire that led them to storm the Capitol of The United States.

I do think there’s a distinguishable difference between what we just heard from Senator Schumer and the actions taken by former President Trump and his circle of advisors in the days before January 6th.

Coons went on to describe being “escorted out along with the vice president by Capitol police” on January 6, 2021. And it’s only in that context that he warns about the potential for “a season of political violence.”

Here’s the full quote, via The Hill:

“We are at risk of a season of political violence in this country, and all of us should reduce the temper and level of our rhetoric,” Coons said. “Be mindful of the fact that stirring up political violence is not a good or constructive thing.”