Kamala Harris compared Jan 6 to Pearl Harbor and Sept 11

Kamala Harris compared Jan 6 to Pearl Harbor and Sept 11<br /><br /><br />🤡 Vice President Kamala Harris caused outrage by comparing the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington by al Qaeda terrorists. [NY Post]<br /><br /><br /><br />Vice President Kamala Harris caused outrage by comparing the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington by al Qaeda terrorists.<br /><br />“Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were, and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault,” Harris said in remarks at the Capitol’s Statuary Hall<br /><br />“Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory: December 7, 1941, September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021,” Harris added.<br /><br />Critics immediately slammed the vice president, accusing her of a hyperbolic lack of historical perspective.<br /><br />(insert Photo)<br /><br />Thousands of Americans were killed during Pearl Harbor and 9/11 compared to the one who was killed at the Capitol.<br />Fox Photos/Getty Images<br /><br />“Your ‘collective memory’ is drowning in exaggeration,” Tim Graham of the Media Research Center tweeted in response to Harris. “The ‘independent fact checkers’ are taking the day off on this hyperbole.”<br /><br />“VP Kamala Harris just equated the riot on January 6th to the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor,” conservative Kansas radio host John Whitmer said. “These people are so asinine!”<br /><br />Many critics pointed out the disparate death tolls of the three events.<br /><br />“The Capitol riot was bad, political violence is wrong, & people are being prosecuted for it,” Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy tweeted. “It wasn’t comparable to Pearl Harbor (2,403 sailors, soldiers, & civilians killed by the Japanese Empire) nor comparable to 9