Police Open to Idea Lawmakers Helped Plan Attack

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Police Open to Idea Lawmakers Helped Plan Attack

January 13, 2021 at 7:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

https://politicalwire.com/2021/01/13/police-open-to-idea-lawmakers-helped-plan-attack/

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“After seeing one of their colleagues killed last Wednesday, Capitol Police officers are angry that Republican members of Congress refuse to submit to the security changes put in place since then, and say they wouldn’t even be surprised if some lawmakers helped organize the attack,” BuzzFeed News reports.

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[Mr.Bill]

1. Good. I hope they are also open to the idea

police helped plan the attack, too.

[soothsayer]

3. And pentagon officials

[dalton99a]

2. Start with Brooks, Biggs, Gosar

Ali Alexander, a right-wing conspiracy theorist who led one of the "Stop The Steal" groups, claimed in a livestream video that he planned the rally that preceded the riot with three GOP lawmakers: Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama.

Brooks spoke at the rally before Trump took the stage, and urged the crowd to "start taking down names and kicking ass." In a 2,800-word statement about his involvement, Brooks said he was only telling the crowd to fight back at the ballot box. (Brooks also revealed that a White House official called him one day earlier and invited him to speak at the rally.)

CNN previously reported that Gosar associated himself with Alexander's group in recent months. A spokesman for Biggs told CNN that he hasn't ever met or worked with Alexander.

Alexander said he hoped his "mob" would pressure lawmakers to block President-elect Joe Biden's victory through the Electoral College. After the riot was quelled, the three lawmakers voted to throw out Biden's electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania. Their effort failed.

"Those three members of Congress are going to need to lawyer up, very fast," former GOP Rep. Charlie Dent, a CNN contributor, told CNN's Erin Burnett on Wednesday, adding that he thinks the lawmakers will face scrutiny from federal prosecutors and the House Ethics Committee.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/politics/capitol-insurrection-insider-help/index.html