Jan. 6 should be a national holiday, one Trump advisory board member declared, guaranteeing that in 10 years “it will look like July 4.”
The push to create a new US holiday “has been on my mind for four years, I just didn’t have the chutzpah to talk about it,” Jason Meister, 43, told The Post.
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The former Trump surrogate, who sits on the Trump 2020 Advisory Board, is also pushing for J6 “political prisoners” to sing the National Anthem at the 2027 NFL Draft, which is set to take place at the National Mall.
The New Jersey lawyer, who was in the Big Apple when protestors stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, plans to raise the issue with Trump the next chance he gets.
Meister also hopes to see the J6ers memorialized in Trump’s “National Garden of American Heroes” monument, which is scheduled to open in time for the US’ 250th birthday on July 4, 2026.
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Bring out the barbeque and fireworks, said the fired-up MAGA man.
“J6 must be celebrated and forever known as Patriot’s Day,” he said. “American citizens exercised their right of assembly and redress. All of these Americans were unarmed.
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The family of Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed US veteran who was shot to death by a federal officer on Jan. 6, settled a $30 million wrongful death suit earlier this month with the DOJ.
“We talk about due process for illegal gangbangers who beat their wives,” fumed Meister. “I want to celebrate these heroes who sacrificed it all to protect our democracy.”
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