a fan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 12:16 pm
holmes435 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 12:00 pm
Matnum PI wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:13 am
from Alabama. This is our government...
Mo Brooks @RepMoBrooks
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Please, don’t be like #FakeNewsMedia, don’t rush to judgment on assault on Capitol. Wait for investigation. All may not be (and likely is not) what appears. Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics.
It wasn't the Nazis, err, Trumpists who set fire to the Reichstag, err, the Capitol, it was those darned communists, err, antifa!
Told ya. Republicans will double down. They have no intention of turning in the tin foil.
All you Republicans who thought Trump would waltz in, and waltz out, and your party would be "back to normal"? If you don't feel like an idiot for thinking that yet, it's because you're not thinking it through.
Good luck with your party. The entire world is mocking you.
You are correct!
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... d-protests
At least six Republican state legislators from across the nation participated in events surrounding the attempted insurrection at the United States Capitol on Wednesday.
News reports and social media posts showed at least one of the legislators, West Virginia Del. Derrick Evans (R), was among the violent mob that broke into the Capitol building. Evans, who was only recently sworn into office, posted a video of himself entering the building.
“We’re going in,” he says in the video, in which he is wearing a helmet. He later deleted the post.
Other Republicans who participated in an earlier rally, in which President Trump incited his supporters to violence, said they had not entered the Capitol building. Several condemned the violence wrought by the pro-Trump insurgents, and falsely tried to blame other groups.
“Just a whole heck of a lot of patriots here,” Tennessee state Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver (R) told The Tennessean. “We never experienced any violence.”
Weaver tweeted an image of the unruly mob at the base of the Capitol’s West Front.
Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase (R) falsely denied that any violence had taken place. Chase, who has called for the institution of martial law in the face of a free and fair election that her party lost, accused Capitol Police officers of murder in the shooting death of a California woman inside the Capitol building in a post on Facebook.
Missouri state Rep. Justin Hill (R) skipped his own swearing in ceremony to attend the rally at the Ellipse. Hill is a former police officer; he marched with protestors to the Capitol, though he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he did not enter the building.
Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R) organized a busload of protestors from Chambersburg, Pa., to Washington for the rally. He was later photographed outside the Capitol building, though he said in a video on Facebook he had not participated in the violent clashes.
“At no point did we enter the Capitol building, at no point did we tread upon the Capitol steps, and at no point did we tread upon police lines,” Mastriano said in comments reported by WHTM, Harrisburg’s ABC affiliate. “Obviously, we’re there together and we don’t want to get caught in any violence, so we left out of there.”
He called the violence committed by Trump supporters at Trump’s behest “repugnant, disgusting and threatening.”
Michigan state Rep. Matt Maddock (R) addressed a group of protestors at the Capitol building. His wife Meshawn, who is running to co-chair the Michigan Republican Party, told the crowd “We never stop fighting.” A prominent Michigan Republican activist, Dennis Lennox, called on Michigan Republicans to reject Meshawn Maddox’s candidacy.
State capitals have been the scenes of menacing and at times violent protests in recent months, first against restrictions put in place during the coronavirus pandemic and then following President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Trump. Governors and legislative leaders have been targeted and harassed, events that seemed to presage Wednesday’s violence in Washington, where a noose was erected on the Capitol complex.
The FBI broke up a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) last year. On Wednesday, a group of protestors in Salem burned Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) in effigy, and a group of rioters jumped a fence at Washington’s governor’s mansion in Olympia. Gov. Jay Inslee (D) was moved to a secure location.
None of the legislators responded immediately to requests for comment about the violent riots inspired by President Trump, or whether they had any evidence of voter fraud that has not been thoroughly debunked.
