Posted on 05/24/2022 3:52:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If January 6 was so horrific, comparable to 9/11 and other deadly terror attacks, why do Democrats keep lying about what happened?
n the aftermath of the four-hour disturbance at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Democrats scrambled to prepare articles of impeachment against departing President Donald Trump for the second time. Trump—according to Democrats, the news media, and most of the GOP political establishment—had incited the violence with claims of a stolen election, and by encouraging his supporters to march to Capitol Hill following his speech near the White House that afternoon.
But it wasn’t enough to just denounce Trump. After all, he would be leaving Washington on January 20 to build his post-presidency political machine. So House Democrats upped the blame and shame game by accusing their Republican colleagues of organizing tours of the Capitol complex on January 5 so the alleged coup-plotters could map out the next day’s “insurrection.”
Representative Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) started the rumor a week after the protest. In a letter to members of the Capitol Police board, the agency responsible for securing the Capitol, Sherrill demanded an “immediate investigation into the suspicious behavior and access given to visitors to the Capitol Complex on Tuesday, January 5, 2021.” Sherrill claimed her training in the military gave her the keen ability to “recognize suspicious activity” and questioned why so many large outside groups were in and around the building that day.
Nearly three-dozen House Democrats co-signed her letter.
Sherrill, a former Navy pilot, later explained in a video message on Facebook that she planned to hold accountable members of Congress who conducted what she described as “reconnaissance” tours on January 5. If necessary, she warned, Sherrill would somehow “make sure they don’t serve in Congress.” But the tough talker refused to name names at the time. Subsequently, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) called for an ethics investigation into Sherrill for her unsubstantiated allegations.
I have always believed these “tours” were ANTIFA recon briefings for when they returned in Trump garb the next day.
And this congressthing flew a plane, so she can see things no one else can, or at least she says so, it must be true. That is her truth and we have no right to challenge her on it, even though it is objectively false.
there are publicly available maps of the layout of the capitol building
public tours would only go to public areas
she’s a lunatic, jim
Just demand the video footage.
This is an excerpt.
Article is much longer.
Yes, FR limits posts to 300 word excerpts. It is difficult to get the full sense of what this article covers without reading the full thing. And Julie Kelly is an excellent investigative journalist and has been in the lead on the January 6 story.
From the conclusion of the article:
Loudermilk called the accusation “verifiably false.” He met with a constituent family, including young children, in his office that day.
“The facts speak for themselves; no place that the family went on the 5th was breached on the 6th, the family did not enter the Capitol grounds on the 6th, and no one in that family has been investigated or charged in connection to January 6th,” Loudermilk said in a May 19 statement. He and Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) also asked Capitol Police to release all footage in its possession. (The department also possesses 14,000 hours of surveillance video from January 6, which is under strict protective orders and designated “highly sensitive government material” by the Department of Justice.)
The “reconnaissance tour” storyline is yet another lie perpetuated by Democrats and the news media related to the events of January 6. Just like the falsehoods that Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by Trump supporters; Kamala Harris was in the building during the protest; Capitol Police were not involved in allowing people inside; or that a mysterious man planted pipe bombs near Capitol grounds the night before, to name a few, no Republican lawmaker led scores of would-be protesters around the building on January 5 to scope out the territory.
As I ask over and over, if January 6 was so horrific, comparable to 9/11 and other deadly terror attacks, why do they keep lying about what happened?
I think we classify American Greatness as a Blog.
Normally, that allows posting the full article.
But, that may not include illustrations, which are copyrighted.
The Department of Just'us... Yeah, I feel better already.. :(
I think that the democRATs did give tours. They are just using projection in accusing a Republican of doing what they did.
Why do they keep lying? Because it is their nature.
Why do they lie?
Because it’s now in the narrative.
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