Throw the book at 'em: 57 GOP State And Local Officials Were At The Capitol Insurrection

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At least 57 state and local Republican officials attended the Jan. 6 rally in Washington that turned into a deadly insurrection, according to an updated HuffPost tally. Almost all of them are resisting calls to resign.

They traveled from 27 states for the “Stop the Steal” demonstration near the White House. A couple of officials even gave speeches, warming up the crowd for then-President Donald Trump, who took the stage and regurgitated lies about the election results before instructing the “Make America Great Again” mob to march on the U.S. Capitol.

Late last month, after identifying an initial 21 state and local GOP officials at the rally — among them a QAnon conspiracy theorist, a self-described member of a far-right militia and a man who once declared that “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat” — HuffPost received emails from readers across the country identifying the additional 36 officials in this new tally.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/57-gop-officials-at-capitol-insurrection_n_6026e5e2c5b6f88289fb90a6

[walkingman]

1. The only people that can change this are the voters.

[Bluethroughu]

2. They were part of an attack against our country they should be tried for Sedition and

Never to hold office again, but also serve jail time.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. so. now they have co opted the thumbs up sign as racist . what next?

[gibraltar72]

4. Hell I think my small rural Mi. county had at least 4 there.

A county commissioner, two city council, Secretary of county party. I must be so proud

[SheltieLover]

5. K&R!