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Here's the putrid orange chomo's contribution to history.
D. Earl Stephens
@dearlstephens.bsky.social
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"Six years ago tonight, while John Lewis became the first Black lawmaker to lie in state our Capitol Rotunda, Trump made a point of saying he would not attend.
He did this because he's a bigot, and his rancid base expects this kind of grotesque behavior.
Six months later they attacked the Capitol.