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essaynnc

(801 posts)
5. I've been wondering this since Jan 6th...
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 07:43 AM
Jun 2022

We saw the videos of people breaking and entering into the capital via security footage. And you know it had to be recording on the days previous. And there was talk right after January 6th of tours. So let's see the good! I want to know how many Congress critters, or their people gave tours.

I have a long standing bet with someone at work that this will come out in the wash. I dare say the damn is about to break, and I'll win my dollar!

SKKY

(11,803 posts)
4. And Mikie Sherrill stated on Maddow that Loudermilk's group was not the only group...
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 07:42 AM
Jun 2022

...she noticed. There is still a good bit to be reported about this. Was Loudermilk one of the Republicans who lobbied Trump for a pre-emptive pardon??

gab13by13

(21,304 posts)
7. There has to be all kinds of footage
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 07:54 AM
Jun 2022

from 1/6/2021. It should be easy for the FBI to obtain all of the footage, if they decide to investigate.

Investigating Loudermilk will be looked upon by Magats as Garland being partisan. So far GQP politicians appear to be off base.

I have another question, I guess for the select committee since I see no FBI involvement, how friendly was Loudermilk with the people on the tour, they are from Georgia.

OneGrassRoot

(22,920 posts)
9. Loudermilk's wasn't. I was reading something last night...
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 08:08 AM
Jun 2022

by Seth Abramson:

New Revelations Emerge About the Members of the Loudermilk Tour and Their Connections to Leading Republican Elected Officials

https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-news-new-revelations-emerge?s=r


He talks about Danny Hamilton who runs bus tours (mainly MAGA-oriented), and also that there were SEVEN buses.

As seen in this never-before-reported-upon video of the “seven busloads” of Stop the Steal radicals Loudermilk met in Washington on Insurrection Eve—video taken as the bus caravan stopped at the Cherry Hill RV Park in Maryland for an evening barbecue—Hamilton’s expedition comprises 73 radicals spread seven buses, with 10 or 11 per bus (if that number sounds low, it’s because these were all luxury “sleeper” buses that entrants paid $475 all-in to stay on during their two-day trip to Washington and back).


The complexity of Hamilton’s operation is underscored by the fact that—contrary to claims by Rep. Loudermilk that the “seven busloads” of people coming to D.C. from Atlanta were all from his congressional district—Trump Bus Atlanta was actually a multi-state affair. In the Solomon Videos, one person claims to have come to the tour from Minnesota, while another speaks of meeting a fellow traveler from California on the bus; in the massive Facebook image-set of nearly every person on the caravan (which also could easily be used to determine the universe of persons who later ended up on the Loudermilk Tour), one man is shown in a Texas Longhorns hooded sweatshirt—which could be a coincidence or explain why Loudermilk spoke about Democrats’ contempt for Texas in his speech to the insurrectionists upon their arrival in D.C.—while in the initial Trump Bus Atlanta post on Facebook, another customer says she’ll be flying into Atlanta from the state of Washington to participate in the bus caravan, sealing its status as a nationwide rather than merely regional (Southern) operation.

Yet a by far more significant fact revealed in the documentation for the tour is that it made an official stop to pick up passengers in South Carolina (one of the other states Rep. Loudermilk chose to speak about in his insurrectionist pep talk on the morning of January 5). This means that some significant percentage of the participants in the seven-bus caravan Loudermilk boasted about to Tony Perkins on Insurrection Eve as hailing entirely from his district were not even from Georgia at all. This alone casts significant doubt on Loudermilk’s claims that he knew his tour recipients from church.

sop

(10,156 posts)
10. Loudermilk now claims the insurrectionist shutterbug on his hours-long tunnel and checkpoint tour
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 08:19 AM
Jun 2022

was merely snapping pics of the light fixtures:

"Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk claims the Capitol rioter he led on a tour was simply taking a photo of a 'golden eagle sconce' light fixture"

https://www.businessinsider.com/republican-barry-loudermilk-january-6-tour-photo-golden-eagle-sconce-2022-6

TheRealNorth

(9,478 posts)
12. Dumbass doesn't realize....
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 09:22 AM
Jun 2022

That his best defense now is that he was a useful idiot that didn't know what they were doing.

Keep lying, and Noone will believe even that.

 

fightforfreedom

(4,913 posts)
11. I am still trying to figure out what the deal is with the chief of the capital police.
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 08:50 AM
Jun 2022

Did he watch a different video when he said he saw no wrong doing? Is he just stupid or is he a liar?

getagrip_already

(14,708 posts)
13. I've only ever been on 1 capitol tour.... but...
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 11:10 AM
Jun 2022

We had to set it up well in advance through our rep's office (Jim Mcgovern). We had to use that office since we are in his district.

He did personally lead the tour, so that in itself, while unusual, isn't unheard of. Even he said it is almost always staff that leads the tours, but he likes to do them once in a while to help out.

It was like being lead by a history teacher.

We saw the house chambers (and he swiped his id to take a test vote) so we could see where the house meets. We saw the rotunda, and he even took us into the senate chamber and my kids got to sit at the senators desks.

That entire tour took about an hour. And he was very chatty or it would have quicker.

I don't know what we could have possibly done in tunnels and hallways for hours.

bottomofthehill

(8,329 posts)
14. Wow how lucky, McGovern is a great Member of Congress
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 11:48 AM
Jun 2022

Works hard for his constituents and as a former staff member before being elected, he knows and understands the grunt work and is still willing to do it himself.

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