A Republican senator was sent scurrying away from his own news interview outside the Supreme Court Thursday when an anti-Donald Trump protester decided to explain, quite loudly, her understanding of the word “insurrection.”
The angry protester slapped back at Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) after he spoke out in support of Trump — whose eligibility to appear on presidential ballots was being argued before the nation's highest court — and tried to compare the riots on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to migrants who daily cross the southern border.
“Why wouldn’t we call 10 million people crossing the border illegally an insurrection?” Marshall demanded. “Why wouldn’t we call the situation when we take away your freedoms of speech, your freedoms of religion, your freedoms to bear arms, why wouldn’t we call that an insurrection as well?”
This argument against the 14th Amendment insurrectionist ban challenge to the former president's candidacy did not sit well with the woman standing behind Marshall with a “Remove Trump” sign.
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“To try and like confuse people by trying to say the stuff on the border is an insurrection, it makes you sound like an idiot,” the woman declares, as Marshall scurried to pick up a paper he left on his podium. “When you're a white man in this country you have so much power, you don't even have to be educated, you can just say s---.”
The woman’s speech began with a question — “What kind of education have you had sir?” — that she sought to rectify with a lesson on recent history.
“When you have tens of thousand of people attack the... Capitol, people are killed because of that, beaten?” the woman said. “That was an insurrection.”
Four people died on Jan. 6.
Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was shot trying to enter the House Chamber; Kevin Greeson died of a heart attack, Rosanne Boyland died of an accidental overdose and Benjamin Philips died of a stroke, it was later determined.
Police officers who died in the weeks that followed include Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who was attacked by a mob, and Officers Jeffrey Smith and Howard S. Liebengood, who both died by suicide.
“Trump called it,” the woman told Marshall. “You know it."
