Heather Cox Richardson on the Loudermilk debacle

[Nevilledog]

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-15-2022-wednesday

In a letter to Georgia Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) this morning, the chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, Bennie Thompson (D-MS), dropped information, images, and video showing that Loudermilk had led individuals through the U.S. Capitol complex on January 5, 2021, in what sure looks like a reconnaissance tour.

Thompson wrote that the committee had reviewed surveillance video, social media activity, and witness accounts and understood that Loudermilk led approximately 10 people “to areas in the Rayburn, Longworth, and Cannon House Office Buildings, as well as the entrances to tunnels leading to the U.S. Capitol,” on January 5, “despite the complex being closed to the public on that day.” The group “stayed for several hours.” “Individuals on the tour photographed and recorded areas of the complex not typically of interest to tourists, including hallways, staircases, and security checkpoints…. Their behavior…raises concerns about their activity and intent while inside the Capitol complex.”

The letter went on to note that some of the people Loudermilk showed around the complex attended the January 6 rally at the Ellipse and that some of them joined the unpermitted march from the Ellipse to the Capitol. It quotes a video one of them made of the march, saying: “There’s no escape, Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler. We’re coming for you…. They got it surrounded. It’s all the way up there on the hill, and it’s all the way around, and they’re coming in, coming in like white on rice for Pelosi, Nadler, even you, AOC. We’re coming to take you out and pull you out….”

The letter noted—somewhat dryly, I have to say—that the information it has “raises questions the Select Committee must answer.” There have been accounts of surveillance tours since immediately after January 6, when Democratic members of Congress claimed to have seen them, and 34 Democrats led by Representative Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) wrote to Capitol Police asking them to investigate. Republicans, though, insisted that was inaccurate, saying that “There were no tours, no large groups, no one with MAGA hats on. There’s nothing in there remotely fitting the depiction in Mikie Sherrill’s letter.”

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[napi21]

1. WHEN are these idiots going to realize there are cameras everywhere, especially in gov't buildings?

It always amazes me that so many congressmen LIE & think they'll get away with something & THEY, of all people, should KNOW they're gonna be on tape!

[ReluctanceTango]

2. They don't care what cameras say.

GQP traitor thugs all practice a gaslighting technique called DARVO, whenever they’re accused of wrongdoing:

Deny
Attack
Reverse
Victim and
Offender.

The amoral never hesitate to follow that process.

[napi21]

3. They may say they don't care, but Loudermilk seemed to care enough to lie, lie, lie, until the

damn tapes were aired. I realize they could have gotten away with this sh*t when their dear leader was prez, but HE'S GONE! Now they have to deal with a New Prez. who believes in following the laws! I'm hoping to be able to watch the trials when all these JA's are exposed & charged with crimes.

[Nevilledog]

4. Kick