Republicans ever changing story on the Jan.6th i**********n.
first It happened and many said it was trump's doing
next it was it happened but it was A****A
next it was it happened but it was peaceful
next was it just didn't happen and no one was to blame
now it's back to it happened but it's Pelosi's fault.
Republicans need to get their story together and at least hold it together for a month or so but they will continue gaslighting their followers into believing any garbage they put out. They're all guilty of allowing this to happen and trying to cover it up only to advance their own political careers.



The New York Times
Nicholas Fandos
Wed, July 28, 2021, 7:21 AM

For months, Republican leaders have downplayed the J*** 6 assault on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. But on Tuesday, ahead of the first hearing of a special committee to investigate the r**t, they took their approach to new and misleading extremes, falsely blaming Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the violence.

“The American people deserve to know the t***h that Nancy Pelosi bears responsibility as speaker of the House for the tragedy that occurred on J*** 6,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the party’s No. 3 leader.

It amounted to an audacious attempt to rewrite the history of the worst attack on the Capitol in two centuries and preempt the damning testimony of four police officers who were brutalized by the mob of Donald Trump’s supporters. Here’s how Republicans twisted the facts.

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Pelosi is not responsible for securing the Capitol.

Looking past the motivations of the mob or Trump, Republicans said it had been up to Pelosi and her leadership team to protect the Capitol from the attack, particularly given that intelligence gathered in the weeks before it occurred pointed to the potential for violence against Congress.

“On J*** 6, these brave officers were put into a vulnerable, impossible position because the leadership at the top has failed,” said Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader.

Pelosi has considerable influence as the speaker, but she is not responsible for the security of Congress. That is the job of the C*****l P****e, an agency Pelosi only indirectly influences. Most decisions about securing the Capitol are made by the C*****l P****e Board, a body that consists of the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms and the Architect of the Capitol.

Pelosi shares control of the Capitol with the Senate majority leader, who at the time was Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Republicans have made no attempt to blame McConnell for the security breach or for failing to prepare for attack.

That charge also contradicts a bipartisan report produced by a pair of Senate committees that found evidence of systematic failures across American intelligence, military and law enforcement agencies, which misjudged the threat leading up to J*** 6 and were not properly trained to respond to it.

It also flatly contradicted congressional testimony, news reports and public accounts of that day, when Pelosi herself was one of the prime targets of the r****rs, some of whom stalked the halls of the Capitol chanting ominously, “Nancy… Where are you. Nancy?”

Pelosi does not control National Guard requests for the Capitol.

McCarthy and others said that Pelosi had refused pleas by the C*****l P****e to provide backup, like the National Guard, ahead of J*** 6.

But the speaker of the House does not control the National Guard. And while Congress could have requested support in advance, that decision lies with the C*****l P****e Board, not the speaker.

Members of the C*****l P****e board have provided conflicting accounts of a debate that occurred on Jan. 4 over whether to request the help in advance. Steven A. Sund, then the chief of C*****l P****e, has said he asked the board for the preemptive assistance but was rebuffed.

Among the reasons cited, Sund said, was a concern by the House sergeant-at-arms, Paul D. Irving, about the “optics” of bringing in reinforcements. Stefanik falsely attributed that concern to Pelosi, whose aides have said she only learned of the request days later.

A Times investigation detailed why it took nearly two hours to approve the deployment on J** 6. After r****rs breached the Capitol, Sund called Irving at 1:09 p.m. with an urgent request for the National Guard. Irving approached Pelosi’s staff with the request at 1:40 p.m., and her chief of staff relayed it to her at 1:43 p.m., when she approved it. But it would be hours more before Pentagon officials signed off on the deployment and informed the District of Columbia National Guard commander that he had permission to deploy the troops.

Your argument is ridiculous first Congress does not control the National Guard, that would be the Pentagon and the Pentagon took it's directions from president trump.
The only attack on our Constitution was the attack on the Capitol and the fact the peaceful t***sition of power was attacked by trump himself. You and your trump lackeys can't undo what happened that day and it will go down in the History books as the second breach of the capitol building in the history of the United States. The first came from foreign enemies of the USA and the second came from domestic enemies the USA and no amount of gaslighting from you or republicans will ever change that..

Would you spill the blood of fellow countrymen only to have your way? Freedom is for ALL Americans not just the few who think like you. If so you are badly mistaken why this country was founded and the grounds it was founded on. It's strange people call themselves patriots then attack the government that supplies the freedom they enjoy. Perhaps if you have seen blood on the ground of your countrymen dying of injuries attained from protecting your freedom you would consider your suggestion of revolt asinine as I do.

You are demented from all the bull s**t the republican has been feeding you. The people in jail are there because of their own actions and will get the same treatment any other criminal gets. If they can't pay their bail then let them rot, they should have thought about the results before they attacked our Capitol. The only people I've seen trying to destroy this country are the people who did trump's bidding and still forwarding the "Big Lie". You people have no shame and morals are corrupted for a party and president that treated this country like his personal cash register.

The only advanced planning on and before the 6th was by republicans who didn't get their way in the e******n process. trump had around a 36% approval rating going into the race and you people were surprised when he lost, now that's one of the biggest jokes of this whole thing.

Republicans ever changing story on the Jan.6th i**********n.
first It happened and many said it was trump's doing
next it was it happened but it was A****A
next it was it happened but it was peaceful
next was it just didn't happen and no one was to blame
now it's back to it happened but it's Pelosi's fault.
Republicans need to get their story together and at least hold it together for a month or so but they will continue gaslighting their followers into believing any garbage they put out. They're all guilty of allowing this to happen and trying to cover it up only to advance their own political careers.



The New York Times
Nicholas Fandos
Wed, July 28, 2021, 7:21 AM

For months, Republican leaders have downplayed the J*** 6 assault on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. But on Tuesday, ahead of the first hearing of a special committee to investigate the r**t, they took their approach to new and misleading extremes, falsely blaming Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the violence.

“The American people deserve to know the t***h that Nancy Pelosi bears responsibility as speaker of the House for the tragedy that occurred on J*** 6,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the party’s No. 3 leader.

It amounted to an audacious attempt to rewrite the history of the worst attack on the Capitol in two centuries and preempt the damning testimony of four police officers who were brutalized by the mob of Donald Trump’s supporters. Here’s how Republicans twisted the facts.

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Pelosi is not responsible for securing the Capitol.

Looking past the motivations of the mob or Trump, Republicans said it had been up to Pelosi and her leadership team to protect the Capitol from the attack, particularly given that intelligence gathered in the weeks before it occurred pointed to the potential for violence against Congress.

“On J*** 6, these brave officers were put into a vulnerable, impossible position because the leadership at the top has failed,” said Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader.

Pelosi has considerable influence as the speaker, but she is not responsible for the security of Congress. That is the job of the C*****l P****e, an agency Pelosi only indirectly influences. Most decisions about securing the Capitol are made by the C*****l P****e Board, a body that consists of the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms and the Architect of the Capitol.

Pelosi shares control of the Capitol with the Senate majority leader, who at the time was Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Republicans have made no attempt to blame McConnell for the security breach or for failing to prepare for attack.

That charge also contradicts a bipartisan report produced by a pair of Senate committees that found evidence of systematic failures across American intelligence, military and law enforcement agencies, which misjudged the threat leading up to J*** 6 and were not properly trained to respond to it.

It also flatly contradicted congressional testimony, news reports and public accounts of that day, when Pelosi herself was one of the prime targets of the r****rs, some of whom stalked the halls of the Capitol chanting ominously, “Nancy… Where are you. Nancy?”

Pelosi does not control National Guard requests for the Capitol.

McCarthy and others said that Pelosi had refused pleas by the C*****l P****e to provide backup, like the National Guard, ahead of J*** 6.

But the speaker of the House does not control the National Guard. And while Congress could have requested support in advance, that decision lies with the C*****l P****e Board, not the speaker.

Members of the C*****l P****e board have provided conflicting accounts of a debate that occurred on Jan. 4 over whether to request the help in advance. Steven A. Sund, then the chief of C*****l P****e, has said he asked the board for the preemptive assistance but was rebuffed.

Among the reasons cited, Sund said, was a concern by the House sergeant-at-arms, Paul D. Irving, about the “optics” of bringing in reinforcements. Stefanik falsely attributed that concern to Pelosi, whose aides have said she only learned of the request days later.

A Times investigation detailed why it took nearly two hours to approve the deployment on J** 6. After r****rs breached the Capitol, Sund called Irving at 1:09 p.m. with an urgent request for the National Guard. Irving approached Pelosi’s staff with the request at 1:40 p.m., and her chief of staff relayed it to her at 1:43 p.m., when she approved it. But it would be hours more before Pentagon officials signed off on the deployment and informed the District of Columbia National Guard commander that he had permission to deploy the troops.