Michigan Senator Mike Shirkey Thinks Capitol Riot Was Staged, Mitch McConnell Was Part of It
On 2/9/21 at 6:46 PM EST
Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey said in a recent conversation that Trump people weren t responsible for the riot at the U.S. Capitol and that people wanted a mess ahead of the violence.
Shirkey s comments were recorded in a video that was posted on YouTube after he met with members of the Hillsdale County Republican Party. The local GOP group later voted to censure him for not supporting former President Donald Trump enough and for failing to stand up to Governor Gretchen Whitmer with regard to the Second Amendment and COVID-19 restrictions.
A coalition of six Senate committees took the unusual step Monday of jointly requesting information from 22 different law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies for an accounting of their response to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.The letter asks for a breakdown of what each agency knew ahead of the attack, a detailed timeline of their response, and how and whether they responded to requests for assistance."The January 6, 2021.
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On Thursday, House Democrats, with the help of a few Republicans, took the unprecedented step of voting to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) of her committee assignments, for her past embrace of QAnon conspiracy theories.
Their action came with a warning from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who said of Democrats, “I would remind them what Leader McConnell said when Democrats voted to nuke the judicial filibuster: ‘You’ll regret this. And you may regret this a lot sooner than you think. ”
“If people are held to what they have said prior to even being in this House, if the majority party gets to decide who sits on what other committees, I hope you keep that standard, because we have a long list you can work with in your own,” McCarthy added.
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