Loudermilk does the dance [View all]

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Story 1: "I didn't give any tours on Jan 5."

Story 2: "The tour I gave on Jan 5 wasn't reconnaissance."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/15/loudermilk-tour-video/

As much as anything, though, this new evidence continues to undermine Loudermilk’s explanations.

Loudermilk avoided talking about the tour for many months, even as the committee expressed an interest in the matter. Aides went so far as to suggest that not only were there no “reconnaissance” tours, but that there were no tours, period.

By May, though, the committee said it had information on a tour that it wanted Loudermilk to address.

In a statement at the time, Loudermilk suggested this was just an extremely innocent tour given to a family. He cited “a constituent family with young children meeting with their Member of Congress.” He said “the family did not enter the Capitol grounds on the 6th” and that nobody had been charged or was under investigation for such actions.

Soon, though, Loudermilk expanded the pool of people involved: The next day, he released a video acknowledging that the family also had “guests.” Now we learn the group was in the double-digits — something the Capitol Police have confirmed (it put the number as high as 15 people at one point in the tour).

The Republican's defense suffers new holes with each passing day.