Less than a week into its heavily hyped televised hearings, the House select committee on the events of January 6, 2021, is reeling after the big primetime rollout was a ratings bomb and now, one of the sinister conspiracy theories put forth by star member Liz Cheney has been exposed as a completely dishonest piece of narrative engineering to implicate GOP lawmakers in a plot to overthrow the government.
On Tuesday, Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger shot down the false claim by Cheney and committee chairman Bennie Thompson that Rep. Barry Loudermilk personally led a group of rioters on a January 5 reconnaissance walk-through of the Capitol complex — an accusation that has been vehemently denied by the Georgia Republican — a major blow to the efforts of the kangaroo court which is off to a rough start.
In a letter to Rep. Rodney Davis, the ranking member of the House Administration Committee, Manger advised the Georgia Republican that the malicious Cheney’s claim was pure hogwash and that no evidence exists that proves the embattled Wyoming congresswoman’s sensational accusation of a Loudermilk-led recon patrol on the day before the so-called “insurrection” at the Capitol.
According to the letter, the head of the Capitol Police rejected the idea that the visit by Loudermilk’s guests was anything more nefarious than the routine tours that are regularly given by lawmakers to their constituents of the office buildings in the complex and that, “At no time did the group appear in any tunnels that would have led them to the U.S. Capitol. In addition, the tunnels leading to the U.S. Capitol were posted with USCP officers and admittance to the U.S. Capitol without a Member of Congress was not permitted on January 5, 2021.”
“There is no evidence that Representative Loudermilk entered the U.S. Capitol with this group on January 5, 2021,” Manger wrote. “We train our officers on being alert for people conducting surveillance or reconnaissance, and we do not consider any of the activities we observed as suspicious.”
A vindicated Loudermilk took a victory lap on Twitter after the cloud of suspicion was lifted.
“The truth will always prevail. As I’ve said since the Jan. 6 Committee made their baseless accusation about me to the media, I never gave a tour of the Capitol on Jan 5, 2021,” the congressman tweeted.
🚨BREAKING🚨: The truth will always prevail. As I’ve said since the Jan. 6 Committee made their baseless accusation about me to the media, I never gave a tour of the Capitol on Jan 5, 2021… pic.twitter.com/qBoLcmxnYQ
— Rep. Barry Loudermilk (@RepLoudermilk) June 14, 2022
Loudermilk added, “and a small group visiting their congressman is in no way a suspicious activity. Now the Capitol Police have confirmed this fact.”
and a small group visiting their congressman is in no way a suspicious activity. Now the Capitol Police have confirmed this fact.
— Rep. Barry Loudermilk (@RepLoudermilk) June 14, 2022
Despite the lack of any evidence, Cheney and Thompson wrote a letter to Loudermilk in May requesting his “voluntary cooperation” with their investigation.
“Public reporting and witness accounts indicate some individuals and groups engaged in efforts to gather information about the layout of the U.S. Capitol, as well as the House and Senate office buildings, in advance of January 6, 2021,” the letter read.
“In response to those allegations, Republicans on the Committee on House Administration—of which you are a Member—claimed to have reviewed security footage from the days preceding January 6th and determined that “[t]here were no tours, no large groups, no one with MAGA hats on. However, the Select Committee’s review of evidence directly contradicts that denial,” Cheney and Thompson wrote, claiming to have evidence.
But Chief Manger who is more of an authority than a gaggle of truth-twisting Trump-hating politicians begs to differ.
In another sign that Nancy Pelosi’s Soviet-style tribunal may be in big trouble, the Wednesday hearings were abruptly postponed without explanation, not that most Americans will notice.
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Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.
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