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Jilly_in_VA

(9,962 posts)
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 10:47 AM Jul 2021

The GOP's alternate insurrection reality has a fun new villain

Republican efforts to distract and deceive the public over the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 seem to have hit a new low.

Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, just as the House kicked off its Jan. 6 hearings with searing testimony from Capitol Police officers, House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik attempted to shift blame. “Nancy Pelosi bears responsibility as speaker of the House for the tragedy that occurred on Jan. 6,” Stefanik said.

The New York lawmaker also deemed Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House, “an authoritarian who has broken the people’s house” and claimed Pelosi had refused to seat GOP Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks on the House’s select committee because “she doesn’t want a fair or bipartisan investigation; she wants a political one.”

Stefanik’s brazen bid to flip reality on its head would be comical if it were not so dangerous.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/elise-stefanik-blaming-nancy-pelosi-jan-6-brazen-attack-reality-n1275189?icid=msd_topgrid
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Stefanik in more ways than one makes me think she might be Shuckabee Slanders' little sister.

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The GOP's alternate insurrection reality has a fun new villain (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 OP
the GOP is totally committed to lying RussBLib Jul 2021 #1
"Pelosi had to know we were sending a violent mob to attack the Capitol!" tanyev Jul 2021 #2

tanyev

(42,541 posts)
2. "Pelosi had to know we were sending a violent mob to attack the Capitol!"
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 10:51 AM
Jul 2021
"Why didn't she do something about it???"
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