Pelosi Rebukes “Sick” Riot Denials By Republican Reps

Politico reports:

“Really? Well, I don’t know a normal day around here where people are threatening to hang the vice president of the United States, or shoot the speaker, or disrupt and injure so many police officers,” Pelosi told reporters in her first public remarks since multiple House Republicans shrugged off the Capitol riot during a hearing on Wednesday. One GOP lawmaker compared the siege to a “normal tourist visit.” “I don’t consider that normal,” Pelosi said. “It was beyond denial, it fell into the range of sick.”

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed the growing number of Republican lawmakers who have downplayed the threat of Jan. 6’s deadly insurrection, calling the GOP’s false narrative “quite appalling.” https://t.co/2N0QHswgPM

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