"The View's" Meghan McCain revealed that she was traumatized watching the airing of the Capitol attack videos during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
Comparing it to 9/11, she said that watching the attacks and feeling the sense of panic and fear again was hard. It's a sentiment shared by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's staff, who were photographed watching the impeachment as footage of them trying to escape was shown during the trial.
"As an analyst, I understand that the argument from the Republican side is that we have to move on," she continued. "We have to be focusing on COVID relief and, you know, the American public and all the meat and potatoes issues that make the wheels work in the United States of America. I disagree. I still think that there should be a fine line, and that there should be a standard that this cannot happen, but that fine line for me isn't only with the Capitol riots. it's also when you are standing as a journalist on TV and there is a city on fire behind you and things are being rioted and small businesses are being looted."
McCain was referencing the riots after the violent death of George Floyd when the community took to the streets in anger. Many reporters covered it, so it's unclear why McCain attacked the media.
"There is no political cause which I justify violence or looting or burning things down or attacking people across the board, and I think we need to hold that standard no matter what as Sara said, no matter what your political ideology is," McCain continued. "No matter what it's in the name for. When I think of people doing things in the name of violence, I think of terrorists. I think this is crap that happens in other countries. This is not crap that happens here, and I worry about this line that has been moving and moving and moving since last summer, and now we see this."
She then attacked those who were critical of the Capitol Police when footage showed them appearing to move the barriers to allow the protesters in.
"I just want everyone to be really, really consistent because I remember when this attack first happened, people, were highly critical of the Capitol Police and saying they let the protesters in," said McCain, referencing the video appearing to show police officers opening the barriers to allow the protesters in.
"So, I just -- I'm really heartbroken and gutted over this," McCain continued. "This has actually been really hard for me to keep coming on and talking about. I think probably Americans at home, it's probably hard for them to keep revisiting this. It is really comparable to 9/11 historically in the sense that it's a paradigm-shifting event, and I just hope that we can impeach quickly and hopefully go forth towards healing, but maybe that is pie in the sky optimism that isn't very rooted in reality because it kind of seems like that's not what the republicans are going to be doing going forward."
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