“What separates antifa is their willingness to use violence. I have very good friends who have been reporting on antifa for months, and months, and months,” McCain said on Monday. “We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can say Ron Johnson is an absolute moron, we can say that not all activism is violent, but the idea that antifa doesn’t exist is just factually inaccurate and wrong and a lie.”
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The daughter of late Republican Sen. John McCain
Behar later took exception with McCain s insistence that antifa was responsible for such attacks and should not be dismissed.
George Tanios poses for a 2017 photo. Andrew Spellman
Sandwich U operator George Pierre Tanios was arrested Sunday due to his role in Jan. 6 s riots at the U.S. Capitol building.
Tanios, 39, is expected to appear in federal court on Monday, according to the Washington Post. He is charged with assaulting U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick with bear spray.
Sicknick died the following day. It is not yet known whether his exposure to the bear spray resulted in his death.
In a video recorded at the Capitol, Julian Elie Khater, 32, of Pennsylvania, is alleged to have said to Tanios Give me that bear s -. Approximately nine minutes later, according to the Post, Khater discharged a canister into the face of Sicknick and other officers.
Security forces draw their guns as rioters loyal to former President Donald Trump try to break into the House of Representatives chamber to disrupt the Electoral College process at the Capitol in Washington in January. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced later in January that she would send the article of impeachment against Trump to the Senate, triggering the start of the former president’s trial on a charge of incitement of insurrection over the deadly Capitol riot.