DES MOINES – Iowa Auditor Rob Sand responded to Wednesday’s insurrection in the nation’s capitol and fears a danger of spreading violence in near future.
Statement from State Auditor Sand on Yesterday’s Events:
There is a very real danger that the insurrection and violence at United States Capitol escalates in the coming days and weeks.
That danger is increased each time a leader repeats or implies the lie that the presidential election was rigged or defrauded. As George W. Bush put it, these Trump extremists at the Capitol are people whose “passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes.”
I regularly defend Iowa‘s senior Republican politicians from claims that they should be locked up, that they are criminals, and from other unfair personal attacks. I do so because falsehoods and false hopes can only be snuffed by people from the same political “half” of our sadly divided society.
This is the most urgent moment for Republican elected officials to do the same.
When President Trump claims the election was rigged, they must snuff the passion he intends to inflame by stating unequivocally and clearly that Joe Biden is the legitimate winner of the election and that he should be rightly inaugurated on January 20.