Jan. 6 Panel To Show GOP Reps Cowering During Riot

Rolling Stone reports:

The Jan. 6 committee plans to use its Thursday night hearing to call out insurrection-friendly lawmakers who cowered during the Capitol attack but have since downplayed the insurrection’s severity, according to two sources familiar with the committee’s planning.

“They have plans to paint a really striking picture of how some of Trump’s greatest enablers of his coup plot were — no matter what they’re saying today — quaking in their boots and doing everything shy of crying out for their moms,” one source tells Rolling Stone. “If any of [these lawmakers] were capable of shame, they would be humiliated.”

Throughout its hearings, the committee has made extensive use of photo and video evidence, including, at times, footage of lawmakers reacting to a mob of Donald Trump supporters who fought through a police line to break into the Capitol.

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EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 cmte plans to humiliate MAGA lawmakers who cowered during Capitol attack https://t.co/jqyJNf2GLb

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) July 21, 2022

Here’s a photo of GOP lawmaker Andrew Clyde helping to barricade the door in the Capitol on Jan 6 to keep it from being overrun … by tourists. pic.twitter.com/6kE3IFeOW0

— Duty To Warn ? (@duty2warn) May 17, 2021