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  • 2022-01-07 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Kamala Harris Say Jan. 6 Attack Was 'Worse Than' 9/11, Pearl Harbor? (en)
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  • In January 2022, critics of Vice President Kamala Harris responded with outrage to her speech marking the attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump, on Jan. 6, 2021. Kamala said this was worse than 9-11 and Pearl Harbor, one Twitter user claimed. Biden and Harris just said Jan 6 is worse than 9-11 and Pearl Harbor! another wrote. On Facebook, one user wrote The Vice President of the USA just said Jan. 6, 2021 was worse than Pearl Harbor AND 911. Todd Starnes, the former Fox News host, wrote: You'd be surprised at how many Establishment Republicans agree with Kamala -- that Jan. 6 was worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11. In reality, Harris did not say the attack on the U.S. Capitol was worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Rather, in her remarks on Jan. 6, 2022, the first anniversary of the Capitol attack, Harris cited January 6th, 2021 as one of three dates that echo throughout history as an occasion on which American democracy came under assault — along with the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Though some observers might object to Harris's even mentioning the Capitol attack in the same breath as Pearl Harbor and 9/11, it is simply inaccurate to claim that she said, or even implied, that Jan. 6 was, by some unspecified measure, worse than those two earlier infamous days. She did not, and we are issuing a rating of Mostly False. Harris's remarks came towards the beginning of her speech on the morning of Jan. 6, 2022, at Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. Her speech can be watched in full here, and a transcript is available here. The relevant section can be watched further below, and an excerpted transcript is available below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ibrPOnovt0 (en)
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