Is Ted intellectually dishonest or just confused?
Terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. The calculated use of violence or threat of violence to inculcate fear. Terrorism is intended to coerce or intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.
The deliberate targeting of civilians is, in fact, essential to the idea of terrorism---despite recent dictionaries downplaying it to align with governmental sematic abuse. Otherwise, you would be forced to call our own founding fathers terrorists since they most definitely used violence in pursuit of political aims (but they never targeted civilian populations). Furthermore, the crowd did not plan their action with the intent of inspiring fear because no Trump supporter planned this action at all---a spontaneous outburst of anger, esp. if it is provoked by government agents expert in crowd manipulation, is not terrorism. The definition requires it to be calculated. I assure you, Jan 6th was not calculated---unless you mean by the FBI. If anyone engaged in terrorist activity that day, it was the FBI, not Trump supporters.
Ted is smarter than this. I hope this is legitimate confusion, but I suspect intellectual dishonesty. I really admired Ted. I am deeply disappointed to see him giving into the media's misrepresentation of events.
By the way, Ted, would you ask Merrick Garland, Who is Ray Epps?