57 GOP State And Local Officials Were At The Capitol Insurrection

[BainsBane]

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. . . .

Nearly all 57 are facing calls to resign. Yet only two men, both of whom were arrested for their role in the riot — a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates and a secretary of the California Republican Assembly — have actually stepped down. . .

In the mob on Jan. 6, according to HuffPost’s analysis, were, at least, 16 Republican members of state houses or assemblies, four state senators, a state attorney general, six county commissioners, seven city council members, two mayors, three school board members, two state GOP chairs, two prosecutors and a slew of other officials and party functionaries. The group also included an extremist sheriff from Oklahoma who discussed harming members of Congress, a town council member from Massachusetts who is closely affiliated with the violent neo-fascist gang the Proud Boys and a county commissioner from Florida who once discussed beheading liberals.

Only a few breached the Capitol property itself, with four GOP officials having since been arrested on charges including “knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds” and disorderly conduct. The rest of the officials have since largely condemned the violence that occurred that day, insisting they were nowhere near the chaos or claiming they’d already returned to their hotels or boarded buses home before the rioters started ransacking the seat of American democracy, leading to the deaths of five people.

Many have since sought to avoid responsibility for their part in it all. Of the 57 GOP officials identified as being at the rally, afterward at least 20 pushed the false conspiracy theory that “antifa,” or leftist anti-fascists, actually started the violence — a claim that’s been rendered increasingly absurd with the arrests of about 200 Trump supporters since Jan. 6.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/57-gop-officials-at-capitol-insurrection_n_6026e5e2c5b6f88289fb90a6?fbclid=IwAR3mraMmCIS_huYFS_qCI6oT9ICLC3WPkef17gt-xLyApZKKdB_b6V843_E

This country and state and local governments are filled with traitors.

[TwilightZone]

1. Meanwhile, the GOP says it was antifa.

Someone should explain pictures and video to them and also how they are used to document events.

[BainsBane]

4. The article says people involved in the insurrection

are claiming it was antifa. They are liars of the worst sort.

[TwilightZone]

6. Sounds like Trump

Trump says something and it's on video:

Reporter: why did you say that?

Trump: I didn't say that.

Trump's spokespeople: He didn't say that.

Reporter: here's the video. It's word-for-word.

Trump: Fake news

[Guilded Lilly]

2. Until there is accountability in very serious terms, none of those GOP...

give a damn about their treasonous actions.
And when the head seditious traitor at the top of the dung heap walks...why should they?
The cancer runs deep.

[matt819]

5. A police chief in NH was at the rally

Says he left before the rallygoers became terrorists. Maybe so.

Town selectmen standing by their man.

Short LTTE in the local paper says leave him be.

He says violence not good. https://www.nhpr.org/post/troy-police-chief-says-he-attended-trump-rally-doesnt-condone-capitol-violence#stream/0.

Sure, it's his constitutional right to attend a rally. He has lots of constitutional rights, as he should. As we all should.

But I'm not entirely comfortable with a police chief - or the 50+ other government employee - who would attend a rally such as this. A rally that was likely to become violent. A rally in support of a dictator-wannabe. I mean, do you think the Democrats in his town are comfortable with this? This particular guy said he drew the line at marching to the Capitol. Okay. But with a republican law enforcement officer who would take the time and incur the expense to make this trip, you have to ask where his "line" would be in other situations.

[lagomorph777]

7. The Dem campaign videos will be harsh.

[uponit7771]

8. WOW !!!

[BainsBane]

9. The rot runs deep.