'Almost an abomination': Capitol cop rips DOJ for delaying Trump indictments

21 July 2023

United States Capitol Police officer Harry A. Dunn appeared on Friday's edition of Deadline White House and expanded upon what he was feeling when he posted an emotional statement to Twitter on Tuesday.

Dunn was among those injured by supporters of former President Donald Trump who stormed the Capitol in the insurrection that Trump incited on January 6th, 2021.

"I thought I'd be happy about the news about the target letter. I can't say that I am. Honestly, I feel even more rage and anger. It's like the news just ripped off a band-aid that was only COVERING an unhealed wound. I'm exhausted and this burden has been so heavy to carry," Dunn wrote. "But, I feel strength and support from so many people who are on the right side of history, that I'll never let this go. Not until justice is fully served."

MSNBC Host Nicolle Wallace began by commending Dunn for his candor, which came as Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith is expected to indict Trump for his role in the plot to overturn the 2020 election.

"Your tweet was the gut punch that I didn't know I needed to really cover this news soberly this week. It is a development, but it's still a pretty incremental one. Tell me how you felt," Wallace prompted Dunn.

"Well, shame on you for playing that emotional clip that you led off with [ex-Illinois GOP] Representative [Adam] Kinzinger," Dunn joked.

"Man, I wasn't expecting that, and that was such a powerful statement that he made during those hearings that day, and that was, um, wow. I, yeah, man, that was a good way to lead in with that clip," Dunn continued. "But when it first started, when the news broke about the target letter, I didn't know what to say because initially, like you said, all you wanna do is, all I've been doing is fighting for accountability and justice. And now that it's like showing it's almost here, I thought I'd be excited and no, it's not exciting. It's actually very sobering, and it's, it's a sad moment. It showed — it made me realize that there was so much unhealed trauma still there, that this bandaid was just, you know, masking, that the root of the problem is still existing and maybe only that comes that healing only comes with a guilty verdict."

In response, Wallace conceded, "I have this feeling too, that we're hamsters on the wheel, right? So we were waiting and waiting and waiting for DOJ to turn its focus to Trump in a meaningful way where people like Pence and Meadows and his innermost circle was going before the grand jury. Now that's happening, and now we're still sort of the hamster on the wheel chasing the cheese that we'll never catch. And now all of a sudden we're hearing about the challenges of the calendar that a trial may or may not commence ahead of the election, and certainly not ahead of the political season. I'm concerned about that coverage, right? Because it puts us on the wheel where we're never really gonna catch the cheese."

Dunn, however, noted that "isn't that how it's always been with people's complaints about Donald Trump? Always evading justice. It's always one thing or another. He just seems to skirt his way through it. And that's kind of like where we see ourselves. There's so many people are frustrated and say, 'Well, yeah, what if he does delay? And he's successful in that delay he somehow is elected president and he never faces accountability?' And that goes to your reference about we're just chasing the cheese on the hamster wheel and will we ever get accountability and get justice?"

Dunn then added, "That's kind of what I was talking about this — it's been so exhausting, this fight for accountability. And you said we're close to a thousand days. It's like, this is exhausting and it's so — why should it be this hard to hold somebody accountable for doing something that was so blatant? It wasn't like this is some, it was hidden, it was a hidden coup, but through all the testimony through the January 6th, you know, Committee that every revelation that they uncovered. Why is this so hard? Why it, you know, I deferred the legal part to our legal friends, Ms. Vance, Mr. Lipman, Mr. Weissman. I'll defer to them on the legal theory But just on the surface, as a regular American who just sees it, what's happening in plain sight, it's almost an abomination. It's a disgrace that it's taken this long."

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