6 Highlights From Congress’ First Hearing on Capitol Riot They were planning on our agency not being at full strength at that time, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund testifies Tuesday about rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. (Photo: Erin Scott/Getty Images)
Former and current officials responsible for securing the U.S. Capitol fielded questions Tuesday from senators about how the Jan. 6 rioters could have breached the building.
Two Senate committees held the first such oversight hearing about a mob’s ability to storm the Capitol, apparently to prevent a joint session of Congress from counting and certifying the Electoral College votes sealing Democratic challenger Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump.
Schumer hit back after a Tuesday Senate hearing on Capitol security
Johnson read from a very interesting eyewitness account by J. Michael Waller who claimed he saw provocateurs at the Capitol riot
Waller claimed not one of the people he saw appeared angry or incited to riot
The statement he read blamed police for firing gas into a crowd
But he also told DailyMail.com he was NOT claiming false flag operation occurred
It came at a hearing where former Capitol Police chief said rioters came prepared for war and armed
Johnson also said he found videos of incident sickening and reprehensible racial slurs repugnant
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) Should Be Expelled From The Senate
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Vladimir Putin’s “useful idiot” in the United States Senate, Senator Ron Johnson, who regularly spews Russian propaganda and here, and spreads internet conspiracies, used the first hearing into the January 6 seditious insurrection by Trump’s MAGA mob to spew more conspiracy theories in his ongoing effort to disappear the January 6 insurrection down the memory hole, pretending that it didn’t happen.
Earlier this year, the
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Just a few bad apples got a little rowdy.
“This didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me,” the Oshkosh Republican told talk radio show host Jay Weber.