Maloney Wants Criminal Charges For Rep Who Gave MAGA Rioters A Prep Tour Of Capitol

[TheBlackAdder]

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Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney confirms that it is. Rumors have been flying around about several members of Congress having given information to the rioters about the Capitol's layout and how to navigate the cavernous maze that makes up that building, including one particularly disturbing story regarding a Congressperson giving an insider's tour to a group of people on January 5, who were back the next day rioting, breaching the Capitol, and committing insurrection.

Nicolle Wallace asked Rep. Maloney if that story was true, and if there will be investigations into these concerns. He responded, "I can confirm that. I don't have firsthand knowledge of it, but I spoke to a member who saw it personally, and he described it with some alarm." He described continuing despicable behavior of these GOP representatives towards the same Capitol police who are there to protect them since the riot, defying their instructions to go through metal detectors, insisting they will carry guns, and Maloney lamented, "it's a sad reality that we find ourselves at a place where the enemy is within, and we cannot trust our own colleagues."
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Wallace asked who the member was who conducted the tour, but Rep. Maloney refrained from naming them, because he wanted to make sure he knew all the facts. He added, though, "I think you'll find that that's going to be a real story."

When Wallace asked about the process for investigating this aiding the insurrectionists, giving a tour, and maybe showing them how to get around, and giving them maps, etc., he skipped right over her suggestion it would be a Congressional matter for the Ethics Committee. This was a crime. "I think the criminal code is the right place to start. I think we're talking about specific acts of criminal behavior under federal sedition laws," he said. While maintaining that, of course, holding differing political views is never a crime, acting on them to break the law is.

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/01/rep-maloney-wants-representative-who-gave

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[grumpyduck]

1. As they say in Congress

I second the motion.

[triron]

20. May I 3rd it?

[SheltieLover]

2. Absofuckingloutely!

[onecaliberal]

3. Absolutely. They also need to be expelled per the 14th amendment.

[lagomorph777]

24. He's saying they need to be jailed.

[magicarpet]

4. This is their zeal to fuck the liberals,...

.... has it gone too far yet.

We better nip the buds off this tree of Fascim. Or it will propagate beyond anyone's hopes to control.

[gldstwmn]

5. He's talking about Boebert. Good.

[lame54]

26. "It wasn't me. It wasn't me."...

Said the one it was though her name was never mentioned

[IcyPeas]

6. so it sounds like it was only one congressperson giving a tour or that's how I heard it.

[Escurumbele]

8. What I read here in DU, there are more of them that gave tours

There is a blog here in DU that lists many of them. Sorry, I tried to find it, but I was unsuccessful.

[VA_Jill]

7. According to Rep. Mikie Sherrill

It was more than one. Sounded like two or three, which would include possibly Paul Gosar (R-AZ) who is accused by his brother of having a hand in planning the whole thing, Lauren Boebert (Q-CO), and maybe also Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA).

[Escurumbele]

9. I think Louie Gohmert as well, which makes sense.

[Captain Zero]

13. I heard on MSNBC ABOUT staffers VA-5 giving tours on

Jan 5. I heard it about 9:15am this morning. One host said "staffers". One host said " VA-5". I made a post about it around 9:40 a.m.

[TexasProgresive]

15. Screwy Louie, you gotta go!

[okaawhatever]

16. Hisar and Andy Niggs, both from AZ were thanked in a video by rioters. nt

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Traitors. All of them. NT

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Thus far

it sounds to me, and I'm no analyst to trust, like we have disparate groups motivated around the same theme and interests, with perhaps loose coordination. But these are just the parts we hear about. There's also the leads to foreign bitcoin payments, and any alleged coordination between the insurrection, which was also loose and probably involved many who were along for the ride but couldn't tell you who was leading or coordinating other than "Stop the Steal". Cell phone records and more texts and message boards should tell a lot. Was their coordination between the 120, those surrounding Trump, the leaders of the group that invaded?

They really have to get at the root of those propagating the stolen election theories. RW Media were involved too.

[paleotn]

12. Of course you can't trust these people!

What the fuck ever gave Maloney THAT idea?! I wouldn't trust Gohmert and Gym Jordan as far as I could toss their doughy asses.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Trump muzzled the Press which gave him room to spout election fraud theories

It's always that way with him, pointing you over there while he does the same thing over here.

[octoberlib]

17. I heard both Boebert and Gohmert gave tours and probably many others.

They all need to be prosecuted.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. Boebert and Gohmert: half the smarts of Ren and Stimpy, with 4 times the evil.

[Poiuyt]

18. I can't wait to find out who these traitors are

I assume Boebert is one of them. Damn, she just started as a Rep. and she already hates this country.

[Quixote1818]

19. Has to be from this list

Article mentions folks who would not go through the metal detectors. This is all of them but some on this list just complained about the metal detectors.


In addition to Reps. Gohmert, Boebert, and Taylor, Reps. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.), Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Steve Womack (R-Ark.), and Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) reportedly complained about or refused to pass through the metal detectors on Tuesday. “You are creating a problem you do not understand the ramifications of,” Davis reportedly yelled at the checkpoint.

[Quixote1818]

21. I do know that one local CO News reporter asked Boebert's office if she was the one giving the tour

and her office did not reply one way or the other. Why not just deny it?

[DeminPennswoods]

22. So glad Maloney was tapped to lead the DCCC

He's great, no nonsense, willing to call a spade, a spade.

[Blue Owl]

23. PROCEED