Demand That These Treasonous Republican Traitors Resign From Congress Today

The 147 Republicans in Congress who gave aid and comfort to the violent MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrectionists on January 6, in their failed coup d’etat to end American democracy and to impose a GQP autocracy under America’s first dictator, the corrupt and criminal Donald Trump, 147 Republican lawmakers who still objected to the election results even after the Capitol attack, want to disappear the darkest day in American history – a day which will live in infamy – down the memory hole.

You sorry sonsuvbitches should know that real American patriots will never forget, nor will we ever forgive your crimes against the Constitution, and dihonoring the generations of Americans who have fought and died to defend and preserve it. You are treasonous traitors to your country. This is how history will remember you.

The GQP seditious insurrection continued on Wednesday. Republicans Try To Rewrite History During Capitol Attack Hearing:

On Jan. 6, thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. The riot resulted in five deaths. More than 100 officers were injured. Hundreds of arrests were made. But you might never know that listening to Republican lawmakers.

During a House oversight committee hearing on Wednesday discussing what went wrong in police preparation for the Jan. 6 riot, and what the Trump administration did or did not do to quell the violence, Republican lawmakers tried to paint themselves as victims.

“Let me be clear: There was no insurrection,” Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) falsely claimed during Wednesday’s hearing. “And to call it an insurrection, in my opinion, is a bold-faced lie.”

Clyde went on to defend those who stormed the Capitol building, saying video of the day’s violence looked to him like “a normal tourist visit.”

I don’t know who this piece of shit congressman is, I’ve never even heard of him before now. He is one of the Republicans who gave aid and comfort to the violent MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrectionists on January 6, and voted not to certify the election results after their failed coup d’etat.

Rep. Andrew Clyde's (R-GA) comments today don't hold up well when played side-by-side with insurrection footage, so I made this.

the revisionist history being perpetuated by some Republicans to defend January 6th is disgusting pic.twitter.com/bWdXtU0b4F

— j.d. durkin (@jd_durkin) May 12, 2021

Dear @Rep_Clyde: As a House Impeachment Manager, I reviewed a lot of evidence and video footage. Happy to show the evidence to you. There was an insurrection on Jan 6, 140 police officers were injured, and people died. It was not an invasion of tourists. https://t.co/MyUrpWT4xS

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) May 12, 2021

It wasn’t a tourist visit. Egged on [incitement] by then-President Trump to “fight like hell,” hundreds of his supporters stormed the Capitol, many with the intent to commit acts of violence against lawmakers who refused to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) – also one of the Republicans who gave aid and comfort to the violent MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrectionists on January 6, and voted not to certify the election results after their failed coup d’etat – falsely claimed that Trump supporters were the real victims that day, citing the death of Trump supporter Ashley Babbitt, who was killed by a U.S. Capitol Police officer as she tried to enter the House chamber by climbing through a broken glass door.

“It was Trump supporters who lost their lives that day, not Trump supporters who were taking the lives of others,” Hice said.

And of course, one of the leaders of the “Stop The Steal” MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection on January 6:

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), a white nationalist sympathizer whose own family disavowed him for helping to incite the riot, attempted to paint Babbitt as a “veteran wrapped in an American flag.” He also described the hundreds of insurrectionists arrested and charged by the FBI as “peaceful patriots” who are being “harassed.”

These violent seditious insurrectionists were neither “peaceful,” nor are they “patriots.” How dare you call treasonous traitors patriots. There are generations of Americans buried in military graveyards around the world who fought and died to preserve the Constitution and American democracy. They are patriots. You are a treasonous traitor who should have been expelled from Congress by now, and facing prosecution for your role in instigating the January 6 seditious insurrection. You are not entitled to breath the same air as real American patriots.

The Fix did its own video mashup, splicing these three Republicans who have claimed that the attack never happened or characterized it as a rowdy group of “misfits.”

New @thefix mashup:

Seven House Republicans used today’s Oversight hearing on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack to defend the mob, downplay the severity of the attack or engage in whataboutism.pic.twitter.com/IVjwZpP08m

— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) May 12, 2021

Fact Check: The U.S. Capitol was shut down on January 6 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so no visitors were allowed. Tourists are also not allowed in restricted areas of the Capitol without escorts or specific passes. More importantly, Over 140 officers were injured in the attack on the Capitol, including one hurt by an attacker who attempted to gouge his eyes out, and five people died.

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) – also one of the Republicans who gave aid and comfort to the violent MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrectionists on January 6, and voted not to certify the election results after their failed coup d’etat – questioned whether the rioters were in fact Trump supporters. It echoes an easily debunked conspiracy theory that posits those who stormed the Capitol that day were actually anti-fascists [antifa] attempting to make Trump supporters look bad. [FBI Director Wray: No Apparent Antifa Involvement in Jan. 6 Attack].

Wednesday’s hearing signaled another dangerous shift for GOP lawmakers, who continue to deny the results of the 2020 election and now appear to be denying the reality of the insurrection. And Republican lawmakers unwilling to accept the “Big Lie” that former President Donald Trump continues to harp on will find themselves excommunicated from the party.

Take Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who was ousted Wednesday from her own party’s leadership for doing the bare minimum in her refusal to parrot the Republican lie that the election was stolen.

“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen,” Cheney tweeted last week in response to a Trump statement calling the election “fraudulent.”

“Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system,” she added.

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As part of the Republican effort to downplay the insurrection on Wednesday, Reps. Gosar and Hice both brought up the death of U.S. Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick, who was first reported to have died after being hit with a fire extinguisher from the Trump mob, but was later revealed to have died after suffering two strokes. While a medical examiner said Sicknick died from natural causes, the GOP lawmakers neglected to mention that two men were also arrested after spraying Sicknick with chemical spray.

Sicknick’s strokes were likely the result of extreme duress and elevated stress from being assaulted. The medical examiners do not make a causation argument. Prosecutors do.

What’s more, at least 140 officers were injured in the day’s attack. Two other officers who responded to the Capitol insurrection later died by suicide.

One of the officers badly injured in the day’s attack was Michael Fanone, a 19-year veteran of the D.C. Metropolitan police force. Fanone was dragged down stairs, beaten with pipes and shocked with stun guns multiple times by the Trump mob. On Wednesday, he attempted to contact House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to share his experience of the attack. Instead, he was hung up on by McCarthy’s office, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) tweeted.

So much for “back the blue.” Michael Fanone was actually beaten with a “back the blue” flag pole.

The Washington Post ad CNN report, Body-cam footage shows Capitol rioter celebrating as D.C. cop is beaten and Tasered: ‘I got one!’

Surrounded by rioters who had dragged him down the U.S. Capitol steps, beaten him and Tasered him, D.C. police officer Michael Fanone screamed in pain.

“I got one!” one of the rioters yelled triumphantly.

As the crowd pushed in, grabbing at his head, Fanone screamed again and then pleaded for help. “I got kids!” he yelled.

The intense scene plays out in body-camera footage of the attack broadcast by CNN on Wednesday evening, casting new light on Fanone’s struggle to escape a clash he later described as “the most brutal, savage hand-to-hand combat of my entire life.” Fanone suffered a mild heart attack and a concussion in the melee.

EXCLUSIVE: @CNN has obtained bodycam video showing the attack on DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Fanone was stun-gunned several times and beaten with a flagpole. Watch: pic.twitter.com/TaItyUz9IX

— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) May 13, 2021

The vivid violence in the clip stands in stark contrast to claims by some Republicans on Wednesday, who sought to downplay the severity of the deadly insurrection — with one GOP lawmaker even describing the attack as a “normal tourist visit.”

CNN host Don Lemon, who has interviewed Fanone at length in the past, teared up as he showed the body camera footage and called on Republicans to acknowledge the reality faced by police in the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“For all the people who are [saying] ‘hugs and kisses, didn’t happen,’ come on. That’s the reality of what happened to Officer Michael Fanone that day,” Lemon said. “Dragged down the steps, Tased with his own weapon, and then you heard him yelling, ‘I have kids.’ ”

Fanone, 40, has emerged as one of the loudest voices among the police who battled a pro-Trump mob at the Capitol, speaking at length about his battles with PTSD and a traumatic brain injury in the wake of the insurrection and calling on Republicans to speak truthfully about the violence.

He was among more than 850 D.C. police officers who responded to the Capitol as thousands of insurrectionists stormed the building in a bid to stop Congress from certifying President Biden’s victory. Fanone joined a group of police trying to keep the mob out of the West Terrace, where he encountered what he later called a “medieval battle scene.”

The new body camera footage shows his perspective in an attack that has led to charges against two of the men prosecutors say beat him and Tasered him after he was dragged away from his colleagues.

In the footage, which starts around 3:15 p.m. on Jan. 6, Fanone is already prone on the ground and screaming in agony. Amid the chaos, someone in the crowd appears to step in to help, saying, “Don’t hurt him. We’re better than this!”

After Fanone, who has two daughters, yells to the crowd that he has children, a path is eventually cleared and he’s dragged back up the steps where a group of police officers is still holding a doorway.

Fanone told CNN that he was knocked unconscious at some point. The video shows other police pulling him inside, laying him on the floor and then yelling for a medic. His partner later rushes to his side and urges the other officers to take off his vest, yelling, “He’s having trouble breathing!”

“I don’t know how you can watch my body-worn camera footage and deny that Jan. 6 was anything other than violent and brutal,” Fanone told CNN last month.

CNN aired the video hours after a number of Republicans used a House Oversight Committee hearing about Jan. 6 to recast and downplay the insurrection, The Washington Post’s Colby Itkowitz reported.

Demand that these treasonous Republican traitors resign from Congress today after trying to disappear their violent seditious insurrection and coup d’etat down the memory hole.