Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley’s ignominious sprint for canopy within the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — after giving a closed-fist salute to insurrectionists — has made him a nationwide “laughingstock,” The Kansas Metropolis Star stated in a derisive editorial Saturday.
A video of the Missouri native’s dash to dodge the mob that day was performed throughout televised hearings Thursday by the Jan. 6 Home panel. The Missouri newspaper stated the clip uncovered Hawley, who’s since been broadly ridiculed, for the “fleeing coward” he's.
Although, the Star identified, humiliation fails to yield change or apology from the cohort of GOP politicians to which Hawley belongs.
“Disgrace, clearly, shouldn't be a motivating issue for any variety of Republicans nonetheless caught up in Trumpworld,” the Star identified.
The publication famous Hawley by no means apologized for attempting to safe a second Trump presidency regardless of Biden’s confirmed victory.
“Watching Hawley racing away from the Capitol invaders struck so many individuals as blackly hilarious,” the Star added. “Saluting the Trump posse was politically expeditious for him earlier than the siege started.
“The place’s that fist within the air now?” the publication requested.
The St. Louis Submit Dispatch was simply as damning in its personal Friday editorial, saying Hawley’s run “encapsulated his core cowardice” and “demonstrated past any doubt that Hawley understood, in actual time, the bodily hazard he helped uncork that day.”
Final yr, the newspaper slammed the senator as “phony” for pushing Trump’s election lies.
Learn your complete Kansas Metropolis Star op-ed right here.
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