House Republicans say they plan to visit Jan. 6 defendants in jail

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee said Wednesday they are planning a visit with some defendants who are being held in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who also sits on the panel, told ABC News that the committee is planning to send a letter this week to lawmakers regarding the planned visit to the Washington, D.C., detention facility.

Greene said the visit would focus on the conditions of those jailed over Jan. 6, including what she claimed to be “reports of abuse."

"They're pretrial and they haven't even been convicted and they're not allowed to see their families, many times are not allowed to see their attorneys -- the food has been a major complaint," Greene alleged. "There's been complaints of it tasting like cleaner.”

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-republicans-plan-visit-jan-6-defendants-jail/story?id=97714486

[Karadeniz]

1. Keeping them primed and pumped....

[Shipwack]

2. Welcome to the prison reform movement, MTG...

I should have known that prison conditions wouldn't improve until more white people were impacted...

[Initech]

19. Yup, the prisoner's terrible conditions brought to you by conservative republicans!

And years, even decades of failed policy after failed policy.

[turbinetree]

3. So are they going to bringing milk and cookies.........

fucking traitors visiting traitors.....

[groundloop]

7. Apple pies with hacksaw blades and weapons hidden inside.

[turbinetree]

10. Good one.....

[SheltieLover]

8. This!👆

[turbinetree]

12. Or a cake.....

https://boingboing.net/2006/12/24/hacksaw-cake-for-jai.html


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[Freethinker65]

4. Adjoining cells?

[NewHendoLib]

5. Aid to the enemy.. from the enemy

[SheltieLover]

9. Absofuckingloutely!

[Delphinus]

30. You said it!

[The Magistrate]

6. Most Conservative Outrage, Sir

Is simply sheltered people getting acquainted with how things work...


"No one feels more keenly the injustice of our justice system then a middle-aged white man of conservative views caught in its toils for the very first time."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Beautifully penned. Reminds me of the old saw

... "A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. A liberal is a conservative who has arrested."

Yours is better, truer, more to the point.

[The Magistrate]

37. Credit Due To One 'Popehat', Sir

A good fellow, despite some libertarian tendencies. Wicked sense of humor....

[iscooterliberally]

11. Can we keep them there once they get in? n/t

[Novara]

13. Traitors

[hvn_nbr_2]

34. Soft on crime. Soft on treason. nt

[Initech]

14. A failed coup is a dress rehearsal for a successful one.

Also not surprised in the least that Marjorie Shit For Brains is involved. I seriously would bet good money she was there.

[Traildogbob]

15. So large Marge

And Comer will be recording another Red White and Blue song with the prison choir as trump recites the Pledge. Got it! Marge will be baritone with all those testosterones From Georgia water.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. If Comer becomes president he will bomb the detention facility, with white phosphorus. . . .nt

[Cha]

16. Stupid Fascist Traitors stick together..

A couple of those in jail have apologized and basically said they regretted it.

They're in jail because threy tried to Overthrow our Government, MF.. and FAILED!

[liberalgunwilltravel]

17. Don't just visit

I suggest the DOJ check these traitors in for a permanent stay with their comrades.

[bluestarone]

18. HAHAHAHAHA!!

Well now the DUMB fucking prisoners will believe their shit AGAIN!! Go ahead prove to us AGAIN how fucking dumb you prisoners are!!

[barbtries]

20. no more abused than anyone else in any jail in this country.

and you know they don't give a flying fuck about those people.
people in fulton county GA are sitting in jail for months without charges being brought. i don't think i've ever heard anything good about jail food. Jailers treat prisoners like shit. I'm not saying it's okay because I don't believe it is - I think being locked up is punishing all by itself. I'm saying MTG and her cohorts are hypocrites, but then again, they are republicans.

i hate republicans

[Fiendish Thingy]

21. Please proceed (and don't forget to bring a news crew). Nt

[The Grand Illuminist]

22. Main reason they should've been tried for constitutional treason

and faced the death penalty.

[SouthernDem4ever]

23. Greene keeps making herself look more like an insurrectionist every day

Can they just lock her in there for good when she arrives? It seems like she's very comfortable in jail.

[Evolve Dammit]

26. need to charge her first. McCarthy gave her the gavel yesterday. Nothing has slowed them down.

[IcyPeas]

27. ferfuxsakes !! more GOP theater

[Harker]

28. Groomers. n/t

[republianmushroom]

29. I would hope you have the cell next to them. My hope.

[Lonestarblue]

31. Performing for the media.

And maybe consulting with their prison buddies to make sure they don’t testify against those in Congress who helped them.

[bucolic_frolic]

32. Throwing their money in with insurrectionists

Do they know what they're doing?

[ImNotGod]

33. Maybe they just want to know what their retirement home looks like. nt

[paleotn]

35. It's jail, not a picnic.

[Evolve Dammit]

36. Fuck both of them; all of them. Seditionist, traitorous slime.

[jmowreader]

38. Oh goodie!

"Representative Greene and Representative Comer, we'd like you to inspect this empty cell right here. Step right on inside and take a good look."

(The door slams shut and locks.)

"Hey! You said we were just going to inspect the cell!"

"Well...keep on inspecting, your first court date is in a month. Your Nutraloaf will be served at five. Hope you're hungry!"

[keithbvadu2]

39. Now, why would they want to go visit those 'antifa' people?

[keithbvadu2]

40. Tough guy in prison Proud Boys' leader Joe Biggs,

Tough guy in prison

Proud Boys’ leader Joe Biggs, who organized and led the PBs on Jan 6 with Ethan Nordean, just issued a statement from his jail cell complaining about how bad it is.

Part 1...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E68LL4nWQAEBZ03?format=jpg&name=small

Part 2...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E68P7oiXMAUwzxO?format=jpg&name=small

video with his new violence bat...

Link to tweet

[happybird]

43. Yep. Jail sucks. It sucks bad.

Us ‘lowlifes’ have been saying it for ages and none of those freedom lovin’ right wingers have cared.

It’s funny he’s complaining about the food when he probably isn’t even eating from the trays. Dude likely has several supporters/suckers putting money on his books, as well as family members. Maybe even Empty G is pitching in so he can buy food and coffee and sugar and meat (real, chock full o’ protein meat and fish!) from commissary.

Cry me a river, asshole. You belong there.

Maybe he’ll come out of this experience with some empathy and a fire in his belly to help all the people stuck in jail on non-violent charges, minor probation violations and represented by crappy, apathetic public defenders. But I won’t get my hopes up, or look for any of these insurrectionist fools to advocate for reform.

[2live is 2fly]

41. Here's an idea, why don't all these ppl in lock-up file a class action suit

against ffn (faux-fake-news). They could use the evidence (texts, etc) from Dominion vs. Fox News Corp... Right, why not? They believe they're victims because they believed everything ffn put on about the election being stolen. That was one of the reasons they went to D.C. on January 6. Crazy repubs are filing suit for everything else, so why not?

[nwduke]

42. These insurrectionist gotta wonder

why these top plotters aren’t on the same side of the bars as they are!

[brooklynite]

44. The purpose is not to visit the defendants...

It’s to film themselves being turned away by prison officials.