HTF can House Republicans turn their backs on this?
THEY WERE THERE!
These cops saved their asses!….
All this for Lying Donald Trump the damn President?
Four police officers who defended the Capitol from a Jan. 6 riot by Donald Trump supporters spoke out Tuesday during the first hearing of the select committee investigating the attack, sharing harrowing details of their physical and mental trauma.
As the riot fades from public memory amid a new wave of Republican revisionism, select panel members aimed to cast the hearing — the first time Congress has heard publicly from law enforcement on the front lines of the response to Jan. 6 — as a vivid reminder of what happened.
“Some people are trying to deny what happened — to whitewash it, to turn the insurrectionists into martyrs,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chair of the panel, said in his opening statement. “But the whole world saw the reality of what happened on January 6. The hangman’s gallows sitting out there on our National Mall. The flag of that first failed and disgraced rebellion against our union, being paraded through the Capitol.”
Thompson was followed by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), appointed to the panel alongside Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) after top House Republicans shunned the committee.
Cheney said the panel should pursue every facet of the facts about Jan. 6 but also dig into “every minute of that day in the White House,” a subtle but unmistakable shot at the former president who she lost her GOP leadership spot for criticizing.
“I have been a conservative Republican since 1984,” Cheney said, and has “disagreed sharply on policy and politics” with all Democratic members of the select panel, but “in the end we are one nation under God.”
“Every one of us on the dais voted for and would have preferred that these matters be investigated” by an independent, bipartisan commission, she added. While 35 House Republicans supported legislation to create such an inquiry into the riot, Senate Republicans blocked it from passage.
Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, who immigrated to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic, said he was “more afraid” on Jan. 6 than he was during his entire deployment in Iraq. He “didn’t recognize” the rioters on Jan. 6 and was “shocked” to see rioters use the American flag that “they claimed they sought to protect,” he said, wiping away tears from his face.
What officers were subjected to resembled “a medieval battle,” Gonell said. “I could feel myself losing oxygen” and “thinking to myself this is how I’m going to die” as he was crushed by rioters, he added.
Hearing the former president call Jan. 6 a “lovefest,” Gonell later told lawmakers, is “upsetting, it’s a pathetic excuse for his behavior for something that he himself helped to create, this monstrosity.”
“it was an attempted coup” Gonell said. “if it had been another country the united states would have sent help”…..
Note…
House Republicans don’t even want to vote to increase the Capitol Police budget shortfall going into the fall….
“Law and Order”?
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Meanwhile the two Republicans who represent their House Membership and speak for the leader of the Party, pedo Matt and MTG were run off from their press conference in support of the insurrectionists.
I enjoyed Andrew Clyde’s response to questions in answering why he said the terrorists acted like tourists. Clyde denied making the statement, but insisted that he stood by his original quote which when it was read back to him, he said he agreed with the quote – even though it obviously compared the terrorists to tourists. Only a idiot could possibly think that Clyde made any sense.