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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 12:15 PM Jan 2021

Sacramento GOP leader forced to resign after bragging on video about breaking into Pelosi's office


Jorge Riley resigned from his positions in the California Republican Assembly after posting about his participation in the pro-Trump mob that stormed Capitol Hill.

Author: Matthew Nuttle, Giacomo Luca (ABC10)
Published: 10:00 PM PST January 14, 2021
Updated: 6:32 AM PST January 15, 2021

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Sacramento man has resigned from his positions in the California Republican Assembly (CRA), a Republican volunteer organization, after it was learned he participated in the violent, pro-Trump siege on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6.

Jorge Riley served as Corresponding Secretary for the State Board of the California Republican Assembly and President of the Sacramento Chapter, the CRA confirmed. On Thursday, Riley resigned from both positions after photos and video posted on his personal Facebook page showed him actively participating in the raid.

In a video posted on Reddit, Riley is answering questions outside the U.S. Capitol building, which he had reportedly stormed just moments prior.

"We breached over there I think. We broke windows. We went into the door. We pushed our way in," Riley said in the Reddit video.

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Sacramento GOP leader forced to resign after bragging on video about breaking into Pelosi's office (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2021 OP
POS should be arrested soon. dalton99a Jan 2021 #1
THIS malaise Jan 2021 #2
LUV How You Have to Watch a Baker's Brothers Plumbing Ad to See Video of Insurrection against the US Stallion Jan 2021 #3
Nazi being a good Fascist,... then stupid enough to brag about his marauding exploits on,... magicarpet Jan 2021 #4
What are we to make of this mindset, that one can break windows,... brush Jan 2021 #5
Pulled into the delusional rabbit hole of Q-anon is my guess. callous taoboy Jan 2021 #6

Stallion

(6,642 posts)
3. LUV How You Have to Watch a Baker's Brothers Plumbing Ad to See Video of Insurrection against the US
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 12:19 PM
Jan 2021

so America 2021. The next time the Revolution will be televised...and commercialized by corporate interests

Think of all the lost revenue from Pearl Harbor or JFK's assassination

magicarpet

(18,511 posts)
4. Nazi being a good Fascist,... then stupid enough to brag about his marauding exploits on,...
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 12:20 PM
Jan 2021

.... social media.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
5. What are we to make of this mindset, that one can break windows,...
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 12:28 PM
Jan 2021

force your way thru doors and into the nation's Capitol then vandalize it, search for captives then brag about it in postings online, apparently with no anticipation or awareness of possible consequences? Is that crazy or what? Insane? White privilege? Hubris, or just plain stupid?

callous taoboy

(4,785 posts)
6. Pulled into the delusional rabbit hole of Q-anon is my guess.
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 12:33 PM
Jan 2021

This has happened to a brother of mine. He thinks that the stolen laptops are in Trum[p's possession and thinks it's great.

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