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Q&A. What Did Josh Hawley’s Jan. 6 Fist Pump Really Mean? We Asked the Photographer Who Got the Shot. A Q&A with POLITICO photographer Francis Chung on capturing an iconic moment.
The photograph of Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) raising his fist on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6 in solidarity with Trump supporters has already become an indelible image from the day of the attack.
Senator Josh Hawley sure knows how to scurry away.
Hawley is proud of himself, however, and had the fist-pump photo engraved on coffee mugs. For this latest transition of power, the senator has had to settle for being just another Trump sycophant.