Florida Sends a Home-Grown Insurrectionist to the U.S. Senate


Professional muckraker Dan Christenson of FloridaBulldog.org offers a look at how Ashley Moody — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pick to replace Marco Rubio as U.S. senator — aggressively participated in the effort to overturn the 2020 election:

When Ashley Moody takes the oath and becomes Florida’s next U.S. Senator Congress will get yet another politician who played a role in whipping up President Donald Trump’s supporters to march on the Capitol “to stop the steal” on Jan. 6, 2021.

Florida Attorney General Moody – picked Thursday by Gov. Ron DeSantis to succeed Marco Rubio, Trump’s choice for Secretary of State – was a director of a conservative dark money group ironically called the Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF). On Jan. 5, the group sent out robocalls to Trump adherents imploring them to “march to the Capitol building and call on Congress to stop the steal” and “fight to protect the integrity of our elections.”

The next day, after President Trump instructed rallygoers nearby to descend on the Capitol, violent insurrectionists broke into the building as the nation watched on television. Their assault threatened the peaceful transition of power to Joe Biden, caused the nation’s leaders to flee in panic and left four people dead. A Capitol Police officer who had fought with insurgents died the next day.

Earlier, Moody had tried unsuccessfully in court to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In early December, after the courts had rejected numerous challenges to the vote, Moody signed onto a brief filed by the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit asking the justices to delay Senate certification of presidential electors in four battleground states. Paxton’s lawsuit was bounced out of court three days later

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Trump Predicts (Or Promises?) ‘Bloodbath’ If He Loses

“Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath for the whole… that’s gonna be the least of it, it’s gonna be a bloodbath for the country, that’ll be the least of it.”

— “What was scheduled to be a guest appearance by former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally for Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, quickly turned into Trump saying there would be a ‘bloodbath’ for the country if he doesn’t win 2024,” ABC News reports.

Biden: ‘No Question’ Trump Supported Insurrection

“He certainly supported an insurrection. No question about it. None. Zero. And he seems to be doubling down about everything.”

— President Biden said that it’s “no question” that Donald Trump supported the Jan. 6 insurrection, a day after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled to disqualify Trump from appearing on the GOP ballot next year, The Messenger reports.

Brazil Is Importing Trumpism

“If there was no Trump, there would be no Bolsonaro in Brazil. And if there was no invasion of the Capitol, there wouldn’t have been the invasion we saw yesterday. Bolsonarismo tries to copy Trumpism, and Bolsonaro supporters in Brazil try to copy what Trump supporters do in the United States.”

— Guga Chacra, a Brazilian political commentator, quoted by the New York Times.

Pelosi Wanted to ‘Punch Out’ Trump, Go to Jail, on Jan. 6

“If he comes I’m going to punch him out. I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I’m going to punch him out and I’m going to go to jail and I’m going to be happy.”

— Speaker Nancy Pelosi, quoted by Insider, when a staffer told her on January 6 that Donald Trump would not join the March to the Capitol.