Raw Story reports:
Reps. Matt Gaetz (FL), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), and Louie Gohmert (TX) complained on Thursday after prison officials refused to allow them to enter a facility housing people who allegedly attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Conservative news outlets OAN and RSBN covered the lawmakers’ attempt to enter the facility. The stunt was billed as an attempt to check on the welfare of Jan. 6 “political prisoners.” But before Gaetz could open the door, it was locked by an officer.
Read the full article. Outside the prison, Gohmert declared, “We have turned a corner here. We’re in totalitarian Marxism territory here. This is the way third world people are treated. This is a dictatorship.”
Wow… @MattGaetz, @mtgreenee, @replouiegohmert, and @RepGosar have been locked out of the federal prison while trying to ask questions and evaluate the conditions! pic.twitter.com/sci9YtDWRb
— RSBN ?? (@RSBNetwork) July 29, 2021
Gaetz, Greene, Gohmert and Gosar showed up today at the prison where insurrectionists are incarcerated, demanding to be let in to inspect the facility. They were ordered to leave or be arrested for trespassing, which they did. pic.twitter.com/a67U8SVI40
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 29, 2021
At one point, Gohmert tries to argue that he has a “top secret clearance,” so he should be allowed in. (Didn’t work). pic.twitter.com/LBEkkwOW8p
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 29, 2021
After getting kicked out, Gohmert said they went down there because he heard the insurrectionists were “being treated worse than the bloodthirsty terrorists at Guantanamo.” pic.twitter.com/pgXJR0bJa6
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 29, 2021