At least 21 state and local Republican officials attended the J*** 6 rally in Washington, D.C., that turned into a violent r**t, according to a new HuffPost tally, many of whom are now under pressure to resign.
They traveled from 16 different states, arriving for the “Stop the Steal” demonstration on the White House Ellipse, where they watched President Donald Trump tell incendiary lies about having been robbed of ree******n. He then told the crowd of thousands to march on the Capitol.
In the crowd that day were 13 members of state Houses or Assemblies; three state senators; a county commissioner; a city council member; a GOP congressional district chair; a district director; and a co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party. The group also includes a Q***n conspiracy theorist; a self-described member of a f*****t m*****a; and a man who once declared that “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”
Only two of those GOP officials appear to have breached the Capitol property itself that day, and have since been arrested, but the prevalence of Republican legislators and party functionaries at the demonstration underscores the party’s rank complicity in fomenting a historic i**********n.
These GOP officials, after all, were taking part in, and lending credence to, the finale of a monthslong campaign to falsely discredit the results of a f**r e******n. All were eager participants in a nakedly anti-democratic ploy to keep their preferred president in power, and helped whip a f*****t mob into a frenzy.
All are now facing calls to resign, but only one has done so. And although most have since condemned the violence, vandalism, and l**ting at the Capitol — which led to the deaths of five people — many have sought to deflect blame. Of the 21 GOP officials in HuffPost’s tally, at least 13 have made statements attempting to blame the violence on “a****a” or “paid provocateurs.”
The FBI says there is no evidence “a****a” orchestrated that day’s chaos. There is a mountain of evidence, however, showing the violence was committed by a Make America Great Again mob.
Here are the names of the state and local GOP officials that were part of that mob. (This list does not include the federal lawmakers in attendance.)
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