Pelosi weighs charges that GOP members gave 'aid and comfort' to rioters
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Via: tessylo • 3 years ago • 30 commentsBy: David Knowles, Editor, Yahoo News
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Pelosi weighs charges that GOP members gave 'aid and comfort' to rioters
With the Senate poised to begin debate on whether Donald Trump is guilty of “incitement of insurrection” as charged in the House resolution of impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that some Republican House members might also face consequences over their actions leading up to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
“You have to have evidence for what has happened,” Pelosi said at a news conference on Capitol Hill. “There is no question that there were members in this body who gave aid and comfort to those with the idea that they were embracing a lie — a lie perpetrated by the president of the United States that the election did not have legitimacy.”
Capitol Police have been investigating allegations that some members of Congress may have helped the rioters plan their actions by giving them tours of the Capitol building in advance.
“Everything has to be based on evidence, and remains to be seen,” Pelosi continued. “In that regard, I’m very pleased that we will have an after-action review that will review many aspects of what happened. If people did aid and abet there will be more than just comments from their colleagues here, there will be prosecution if they aided and abetted an insurrection in which people died.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Since the failed insurrection, Republican members of Congress who contested the election results have been accused of inciting pro-Trump demonstrators by spreading discredited claims of voter fraud. Three Texas newspapers — the El Paso Times, the San Antonio Express-News and the Houston Chronicle — have called on Sen. Ted Cruz to resign for his role in sowing doubt about the election results.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has also faced calls for his resignation from newspapers including the Kansas City Star .
At a separate Thursday news conference, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was pressed on whether he took any responsibility for the attack on the Capitol based on his own strenuous efforts to challenge the election results in key swing states, in court and in Congress.
McCarthy responded with a popular Republican talking point, drawing an analogy between the storming of the Capitol and the sporadic street demonstrations last year protesting police brutality.
“I denounce any violence. Denounced it that day, denounce it now, I denounced it in the summer, I denounce what happened in Portland and Seattle as well,” McCarthy said. “I’m very consistent. What I voted on wasn’t to overturn an election, because it wouldn’t. It would not overturn. What I signed on to amicus was the exact same question that you did, a constitutional question, about did a legislature have the right, or did the legislature move through to make any changes.”
McCarthy declined to answer a reporter’s follow-up question as to why he had declined to state that the election had, in fact, been “free and fair.”
Distinguishing constitutionally protected free speech from incitement of insurrection will likely be at the heart of Trump’s impeachment defense. But Capitol Police and the FBI have been looking into whether any House members took actions that went beyond simply expressing an opinion.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images)
No House member has received more scrutiny than Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. In a lead editorial that ran last week, the Denver Post said the freshman lawmaker should be investigated.
“We can say with certainty that her words on Twitter, in interviews and on the floor of the U.S. House supported the lie that the U.S. election was fraudulent and that Democrats were stealing the election from President Donald Trump,” the paper’s editorial board wrote. “Without those lies, we believe there would not have been an insurrection, and U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick would still be alive.”
On the morning of Jan. 6, Boebert, who has indicated sympathy for the QAnon cult , tweeted her support for the protests meant to stop the certification of the Electoral College votes that would install Joe Biden as president .
Boebert took a group on a tour of the Capitol the day before the insurrection, which some House Democrats regard as suspicious. Boebert has said the tour was for her family members who were in Washington to attend her swearing in.
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I don't think Nancy would have said anything at all if there was nothing to this.
Wouldn't be the first time a politician played political games, saying something without evidence just to work up their base. Just like I did with any prior accusations, I'll wait for any actual evidence.
lauren boebert is a Qanon dipshit trumpster. she lives in a small town. her business is in a small town. it's a long lonely drive to the airport for her in a state where liberals own guns and trumpster insurrectionists are rightfully considered domestic terrorists.
Death wishing?
She also has quite a long rap sheet. No wonder trump supporters love her. They can relate.
more like speculation. real patriots well outnumber the Q-nuts up there and she'll either end up as a buffet for local carnivores or take a leisurely winter float trip down the river.
So the seditious witch Pelosi is trying a new tactic of prosecuting any Republicans she deems aren't toing the Democratic line.
When the Republicans take charge they need to prosecute Pelosi, bobble head boy Schiff, AOC, and all of the other Democratic henchpeople that took part in calling for Republicans not to be seated; and then prosecuted based on Democratic "feelings".
Of course the left don't consider her actions trying to steal or overturn election results; complete and utter hypocrites they are.
It is well past time to take out the Democratic trash in Washington DC.
Hypocrisy or Irony... hmmm.
First the Trump and Trump supporting trash needs to be disposed of. Why don't you want to observe "the will of he American voters.". Guess you are another one of those anti-democracy Trump supporters that you claim not to be anymore.....
If there's a phrase I despise above any other, this has to be the one. It's only the will of approximately half of Americans. Yet people keep saying it because they think it adds legitimacy to whatever it is they're about to do, which usually ignores the actual will of the other 50% as if they doesn't exist. And so what the phrase truly means is that it's the will of the people who voted for me and those are the only Americans I care about.
And it doesn't matter which side says it. Still means the same thing.
"Feelings"..or actual facts?
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This is a move by Piglosi to impeach Republican members of congress to give democrats a supermajority. One-party rule is what the democrats want.
Not so much..... All I want those that took an oath to the US Constitution to observe that oath. Once that's done we'll open the floor for debate.
Pelosi weighs charges that GOP members gave 'aid and comfort' to rioters
With that logic, she should weigh charges against all of the leftist Congress people that gave aid and support to ANTIFA and BLM....to this day, including Kamala Harris, who backed an effort to bail out those that burned and looted, probably several times arrested, over the entirety of the summer.
Hmmmm...... can you point me to any information that shows BLM tried to overthrow the the US Government? I'll wait.
I don't remember BLM trying to keep people from voting....
I don't remember BLM trying to stop the counting of certified electoral college votes...
I don't remember BLM stealing laptops and then contemplating selling them to Russia....
I don't remember BLM forcing members of congress to shelter from their demonstrations as a whole...
I don't remember the Secret Service having to hustle the VP from a BLM demonstration....
I don't remember anyone doing that. Can you give us some real facts instead of leftist scaqre tactics to scare minorities?
"I don't remember BLM trying to stop the counting of certified electoral college votes..."
No, but I remember democratic members of Congress, both House and Senate doing so...the last 3 times a republican won the presidency.
"I don't remember BLM trying to stop the counting of certified electoral college votes..."
Neither do I, but I hope the idiot that did the other day pays dearly for what she did...something I have never heard a leftist say about ANTIFA and BLM when they destroyed countless lives with their destruction...to this day.
"I don't remember BLM forcing members of congress to shelter from their demonstrations as a whole..."
Not yet, but if the slogan ANTIFA was using yesterday. They don;t want Biden, they don't revenge...won't surprise me if they will in the future.
"I don't remember the Secret Service having to hustle the VP from a BLM demonstration...."
No but I remember the Secret Service having to hustle the PRESIDENT from a BLM demonstration.
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Me neither, they sold them for pennies on the dollar to their buddies in da hood.
So just like so many others on the right... You've jettisoned law... order...and accountability for political survival.
There can be no unity in this country until there is accountability. Democracy dodged a bullet on 6JAN21. The lies of the stolen election came from the right. They were perpetrated by the right that culminated in the riot that wanted Pence, Pelosi, and other elected members of congress dead.
Either purge your ranks of those that refused to defend the constitution, or expect to be counted with the liars that are enemies of that constitution.
No it didn't. There were a couple of hundred yahoos that broke windows and stole some things. If anyone thinks any of those idiots had the know how to take over the government, then maybe those that think it are as much idiots as those that did the act.
Those that did this stupid act are being rounded up and prosecuted to the fullest of the law.
Those words "rounded up and prosecuted to the fullest of the law" are words never uttered by anyone on the left when it comes to rioting, looting, burning and destroying countless lives all thanks to BLM and ANTIFA.
The right will purge their ranks when the left does the same with their domestic terrorist ANTIFA and BLM.
All they got is deflection, projection, denial, whataboutism
The denial, deflection, and projection, whataboutism shtick is so goddamned tiresome.
Ho hum
Sure is...so why do you continue to do it?
Expel every one of them, no matter what their party is. The world needs to see that we are serious about our democracy and busting criminals.
Senate Dems file ethics complaint against GOP Sens. Hawley, Cruz over role in Capitol riot
A group of Senate Democrats filed an ethics complaint against Republican Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz on Thursday calling for an investigation to determine whether the pair coordinated with the organizers of the Jan. 6 pro-Trump rally that preceded the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol .
The Senate Ethics Committee "should also offer recommendations for strong disciplinary action, including up to expulsion or censure, if warranted by the facts uncovered," the seven Democrats, led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said in a letter to the committee's chair and vice-chair.
Hawley, R-Mo., and Cruz, R-Texas, had announced in the days before the riot that they would object to vote counts in states former President Donald Trump falsely claimed to have won during the Jan. 6 electoral vote count, which "amplified claims of election fraud that had resulted in threats of violence against state and local officials around the country," the letter said.
It noted that both voted to reject electoral votes from being counted even after the violence at the Capitol disrupted the counting process.
Pfffft, the fing Ethics Committe has not gone after one fing person. If they had Moscow Mitch would have been toast years ago, Hawley's seat would be vacant, and Ted Cruz would be back in TX with a sign....WILL CRY FOR FOOD.