Posted on 05/16/2021 12:14:59 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) called the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol an “insurrection against the Constitution” as some GOP lawmakers sought to minimize the violence this week.
The comment came as several Republicans, including Reps. Andrew Clyde (Ga.), Jody Hice (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.), downplayed or made false claims about the attack.
Clyde asserted during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday that calling the events of Jan. 6 an "insurrection" was a “boldfaced lie.”
Speaking to HuffPost on Thursday, Romney noted that the mob attack resulted in severe property damage and death.
“I was there,” Romney said. “What happened was a violent effort to interfere with and prevent the constitutional order of installing a new president.”
“As such, it was an insurrection against the Constitution that resulted in severe property damage, severe injuries and death,” he continued.
Romney was one of seven GOP senators to vote to convict former President Trump for inciting the insurrection. He was joined by GOP Sens. Richard Burr (N.C.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Ben Sasse (Neb.) and Pat Toomey (Pa.).
Several of the senators have been censured by Republican groups in their states, with Romney most recently being censured by the GOP in Weber County, Utah’s fourth-most populous county.
During Wednesday’s hearing, Clyde asserted that a photo of individuals walking in Statuary Hall after breaching the Capitol looked like a “normal tourist visit,” despite evidence showing rioters engaging in vandalism and violence elsewhere in the building.
Gosar declared that Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter who was shot by a Capitol Police after trying to breach the House chamber, was "executed" while also stressing that Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died of “natural causes.” Sicknick suffered two strokes while responding to the mob attack.
Hice said that Babbitt and four others who died that day were Trump supporters, not “supporters who were taking the lives of others.”
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) began asking his Democratic colleagues on Friday to sign a resolution censuring the three lawmakers for their comments.
STFU, you deranged scumbag.
The “siege” was staged.
The “insurrection” was a fraud setup, and everyone seems to know it, except clueless Mit.
I supported and defended him for years while he (Willard) lived here near Boston, and my distress of his abandoning of all principles I support in recent years incredibly changed my disposition.
FReeper Diogenes was on top of this stuff from the beginning. I apologized to him years ago though he and others most likely not recall.
Sicknick suffered two strokes while responding to the mob attack.
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This is a flat out lie. He died the next day of stroke.
Utah, please stop voting for this guy.
2012 election was a dive by a RINO who never wanted to be prezzydent in the first place.
Mormons gotta vote for Mormons. Don’ matter if it is Harry Reid or Mitt Romney.
Generally, in insurrections....number of folks get killed. So far, one capital police guy shot/killed a unarmed AF vet. I don’t think Mitt is much of an expert on this stuff.
So was the Charlottesville event
Just ask the 2x Obama voting fraud behind it.
As Donald Trump said, some people went out that day just to stand in support of old statues and monuments and that if a line wasn't drawn those some protesters would be tearing down statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and now they are.
I heard it was a worse armed attack than the Rebel Attack on Fort Sumter. (From MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News)
Unbelievable, don’t waste your time with Mitt. He has become an empty suit.
He was right.
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For the Antifa/ BLM riots
Mittens LOL prolly has a cat named Toonces.
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and a daddy like King George...another tax and spend ‘rat.
Willard is a strange ‘rat. He smells things we can’t smell. It’s like he wears special underwear or something.
I wonder if he’s been vaxxed with ‘rat poison?
1/6 missed tarring and feathering Mitt
I wasn’t there but from most videos I saw it looked like a stroll through the capitol with the Capitol police as tour guides. Insurrection? Not even close.
If he says something is so, you can be guaranteed it ain't.
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