Posted on 05/16/2021 12:14:59 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) called the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol an “insurrection against the Constitution” as some GOP lawmakers sought to minimize the violence this week.
The comment came as several Republicans, including Reps. Andrew Clyde (Ga.), Jody Hice (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.), downplayed or made false claims about the attack.
Clyde asserted during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday that calling the events of Jan. 6 an "insurrection" was a “boldfaced lie.”
Speaking to HuffPost on Thursday, Romney noted that the mob attack resulted in severe property damage and death.
“I was there,” Romney said. “What happened was a violent effort to interfere with and prevent the constitutional order of installing a new president.”
“As such, it was an insurrection against the Constitution that resulted in severe property damage, severe injuries and death,” he continued.
Romney was one of seven GOP senators to vote to convict former President Trump for inciting the insurrection. He was joined by GOP Sens. Richard Burr (N.C.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Ben Sasse (Neb.) and Pat Toomey (Pa.).
Several of the senators have been censured by Republican groups in their states, with Romney most recently being censured by the GOP in Weber County, Utah’s fourth-most populous county.
During Wednesday’s hearing, Clyde asserted that a photo of individuals walking in Statuary Hall after breaching the Capitol looked like a “normal tourist visit,” despite evidence showing rioters engaging in vandalism and violence elsewhere in the building.
Gosar declared that Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter who was shot by a Capitol Police after trying to breach the House chamber, was "executed" while also stressing that Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died of “natural causes.” Sicknick suffered two strokes while responding to the mob attack.
Hice said that Babbitt and four others who died that day were Trump supporters, not “supporters who were taking the lives of others.”
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) began asking his Democratic colleagues on Friday to sign a resolution censuring the three lawmakers for their comments.
Cow manure is more useful! 😀
He flipped flopped a lot by the time he ran in 2012. That’s why they called him Flip-flop Mitt. He for one claimed to be against Obamacare but he passed and supported the prototype for Obamacare in Massachusetts known as Romneycare. He has Ezekiel Emmanuel and other far left guys write the legislation and they worked on Obamacare. So he then was claiming if he had won he would passed his own type of Obamacare bill or fixed to his liking Obamacare. He was against repealling or he was just putting his name on a similar bill. In fact when Obamacare passed he was 100 percent in support.
Mitt, when you absolutely, positively must have the dumbest guy on the planet.
It was more like a stupid Animal House style sit in. Insurrection and taking over a government requires some serious weaponry.
Bald-faced.not boldfaced.
Utah, find a gag for this guy.
Mitt is a lying traitor to the United States of America.
The fraudulant election that put Biden and Harris in those offices was an insurrection to the Constitution and Mitt Romney is a Sad Sac!
😂 Shiiite Romney....like he’s a member of a cult or something.
My guess is that Mittens wet his magic undies on January 6th, and that is why he is so upset by it.
Peaceful protest
IF it was an insurrection, which it wasn’t, for the folks on the right, it was an “insurrection” FOR the Constitution and AGAINST creeps like you, Rommitt
Mitt is running again in 2024
He is a total moron.
I sure hope Utah votes him out and gets this jackass off our backs.
Useless and weak whiner that thinks he’s in the pep squad and wants the jocks and cheerleaders to like him.
Mott is an evil man. He is a “bishop” of a cult started by a evil,lying polygamist who plagiarized the Christian Bible and fooled some people into following him.
I believe most modern Mormons are fundamentally decent people who have been raised on lies. The hierarchy has to know it’s all a sham but the have wealth and power ad compensation.
Probably, cowering in a corner somewhere while calling the LDS "Prophet" trying to see if he could arrange another mission to France. Worked back in the late 1960s.
Election reform. 1946 Tennessee election parallels 2020 – Tennessee Lookout. In 1946, WW2 GI’s took action over a corrupt election and won.
https://tennesseelookout.com/2020/11/24/1946-tennessee-election-parallels-2020/
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