Americans Divided Over Whether to Continue Investigating Jan. 6 Riot or Turn the Page

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Americans Divided Over Whether to Continue Investigating Jan. 6 Riot or Turn the Page

Harvey Wasserman is a resident of Florida and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He voted for Republican Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections but watched in horror as hundreds of supporters of the former president stormed the Capitol Building January 6.

“My stomach was in knots,” he told VOA. “The sheer ignorance of those so-called Trump supporters was doing nothing more than showing the world the dark side of the Republican Party.

Source: Voice of America - English

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