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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 11:50 AM Jul 2021

As Jan. 6 hearings begin, Republicans side with the terrorists

The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol held its first hearing Tuesday, and Republican lawmakers took the occasion to demand justice — for the terrorists who took up arms against the U.S. government on that terrible day.

Six Republican members of the House, escorted by a man in a giant Trump costume bearing the message “TRUMP WON,” marched on the Justice Department Tuesday afternoon to speak up for those they called “political prisoners” awaiting trial for their roles in the insurrection.

“These are not unruly or dangerous, violent criminals,” Rep. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) proclaimed at a news conference outside DOJ headquarters. “These are political prisoners who are now being persecuted and bearing the pain of unjust suffering.”

Rep. Louie Gohmert (Tex.) speculated that “we have political prisoners here in America.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/27/jan-6-hearings-begin-republicans-side-with-terrorists/

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As Jan. 6 hearings begin, Republicans side with the terrorists (Original Post) Zorro Jul 2021 OP
at least screwy louie admits it was political. mopinko Jul 2021 #1
No surprise. They also side with the Covid virus Walleye Jul 2021 #2
Has anyone else noticed they're parroting putins' whataboutism propoganda? movingviolation Jul 2021 #3

movingviolation

(310 posts)
3. Has anyone else noticed they're parroting putins' whataboutism propoganda?
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 01:32 PM
Jul 2021

There needs to be an investigation into these trumputin re-q-berts. They take the side of russia propoganda every chance they get, just like thier flop-sweat-groper-god-hér drumph..

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