U.S. Representative Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) stunned many across America on Tuesday night when she announced live on Facebook that she had seen members of Congress go on reconnaissance tours inside the Capitol building that the scene of a violent incident a day later and fatal event would be insurrection.
US Representative Val Demings (D-FL) told CNN Wednesday morning that “there was some inside help” for the Capitol rioters.
These are not idle speculations by uneducated and inexperienced, attention-grabbing lawmakers.
Congressman Sherrill is a former federal prosecutor and former US Navy lieutenant who served as a helicopter pilot and Russian policy officer.
Congresswoman Demmings was the chief police officer for Orlando, Florida. She worked in the department for 27 years.
There is more.
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday evening that she feared for her life during the coup attempt, not only because of the threat from the insurgents, but also because of her own Republican counterparts.
“When the pro-Trump rioters poured into the Capitol on January 6,” reports the Washington Post, “lawmakers were told to take refuge in a protected” extraction site. “But Ocasio-Cortez said she did not feel about it sure because at that extraction point there were QAnon and white supremacist sympathizers and frankly white supremacist members of Congress that I know and who I believed would reveal my location and create opportunities to hurt, kidnap, etc. to let. ‘”
“So I didn’t even feel safe with other members of Congress,” she told the Post.
“I can tell you that I had a very close encounter that thought I was going to die,” she said, noting that for safety reasons she couldn’t go into details. “I didn’t know if I could make it to the end of this day alive.”
US Congressman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) chief of staff Sarah Groh told the Boston Globe that she found “every panic button in my office was ripped out” while hiding from the insurgents.
Sarah Groh, chief of staff for Squad member Rep. Ayanna Pressley, tells the Boston Globe that when she hid from the howling crowd, she found “every panic button in my office was ripped out”.
Surely in the hope of an innocent explanation for it. Https://t.co/1NbNmIcB3H
– Helen 0️⃣7️⃣ Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) January 13, 2021
There is further evidence to support the claim that those who broke into the Capitol had internal support – and may be tied to the White House.
On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that the FBI had prepared and circulated a report preparing the MAGA insurgents for “war” in the US Capitol and found certain details, including pro-Trump Extremists had studied maps of congress tunnels.
Many were stunned to see this tweet from CNN’s Jim Acosta on the day of the Capitol attack last week, barely two hours after the building closed.
How is it that a source “near the White House” “was in contact with some of the rioters in the Capitol”?
A source close to the White House who is in contact with some of the Capitol rioters said the goal of those involved was to stay in the Capitol all night.
– Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 6, 2021
A Capitol police officer said he was stunned the morning of the attack when he and several of his staff were told to go home. His shift was supposed to end at 7:00 AM, but he fully expected to work another shift as everyone knew there would be problems.
He told Business Insider that he was surprised it wasn’t a hand on deck day and added, “We could have stopped them from getting on.”
US Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC), the whip of the house majority, asked three days ago how his unmarked office was being targeted.
Rep. James Clyburn on CNN: “I have an unlabeled office so you need to know exactly where it is.”
“For some reason this one [rioters] showed up in this office … They didn’t go where my name was … That means to me that something unpleasant may have happened. “
– Kyle Griffin (@ kylegriffin1) January 10, 2021
The former journalist from Media Matters, now founder and editor of PressRun.Media, says what many others are now saying: It was an “inside job”.
Inside Job https://t.co/0xBODVxQe7
– Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert), January 13, 2021
Tuesday night, former FBI Asst. MSNBC Director Frank Figliuzzi asked why the first real press conference by federal law enforcement agencies on a deadly domestic terrorist attack, six days earlier, was not held by either the FBI director or the Justice Department head.
“If the acting attorney general and the FBI director don’t show up for a press conference today, if they send the sales force to do so, something is wrong and someone is gagged and someone is in charge from above.”
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