In an orderly fashion
That? That wasn’t an insurrection, that was just a few tourists visiting the Capitol.
Congressman Andrew Clyde was asked about his widely criticized comments downplaying the Capitol insurrection earlier today.
“You didn’t take what I said in context at all,” the Republican lawmaker told NBC News this morning. “So you go listen to what I said.”
Here’s exactly what he said during that committee hearing yesterday: “Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes, taking videos, pictures.”
He added, “You know, if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January the 6th, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.”
The Democratic speaker mocked congressman Andrew Clyde’s comments that footage from the insurrection looked like “a normal tourist visit”.
“I don’t know a normal day around here when people are threatening to hang the vice-president of the United States or shoot the speaker in the forehead,” Pelosi said. “I don’t consider that normal. Multiple people were killed.”
She added, “It was beyond denial. It fell into the range of sick.”
We’re walking on the edge of a precipice these days.
And don’t forget all those tourists orderly snatching the riot squad’s shields, using them to attack the Capitol Police and break the windows to gain entrance. And all those tourists orderly setting up a gallows outside the Capitol, or carrying zip ties to use on Congress people. Just another orderly day in DC.
But her emails!