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Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) is another Republican eager to see an investigation into the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, reported The Arizona Republic.
Since voting down the Jan. 6 Commission in the House, Biggs and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) have both decided that they now support an investigation, but not because they've had a change of heart. Instead, they believe a fictitious report from Tucker Carlson saying that there could have been FBI agents in the crowd of Capitol attackers that day.
Gohmert took to the House floor last week demanding an investigation into the Jan. 6 attack after he too voted down the measure.
"We really need to know what the FBI knew and when they knew it," said Gohmert. "And not only that, we need to know how much participation did any of our federal friends, either at DOJ, at FBI, or any at the intel community — what kind of role were they playing. Because there's information that came out about the effort to kidnap the Michigan governor and there were federal agents. So, it's been said that there were federal agents involved in that."
Biggs now also agrees.
"It truly demands answers," he said in a radio interview. "It is actually very troublesome to hear what's out there and we need to get to the bottom of that.
Fox News hosts were triggered Wednesday night after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was owned by military leaders calling out the absurdity of the fake culture war conspiracy around "critical race theory."
A slate of school board and city council meetings have turned into shoutings matches in the past week after Fox News announced its latest culture war issue. They've gone from being against masks to against vaccines to attacking Mr. Potato Head and Dr. Seuss, and now they've come up with a law school theory they've convinced viewers is being taught in Kindergarten.
Gen. Mark Milley, the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, flattened Gaetz and conservatives who have waged war against intellectualism. They have passed local state laws that ban the teaching of things they can't even explain when the media asks them.
Milley put them in their place saying that reading something by a communist doesn't make him a communist.
After being asked about Critical Race Theory, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley delivers an… https://t.co/FvRIwfyFzJ— Rantt Media (@Rantt Media) 1624469482.0
Lashing out at Milley, Laura Ingraham told viewers of "The Ingraham Angle" that the military budget should be cut in retaliation.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) appeared on the show and nodded along with Ingrahm as she advocated slashing the military budget. It's unclear if Waltz supports defunding the military, he hasn't released a statement on it.
This is not going to play out well https://t.co/HJwZOcZFSH— Acyn (@Acyn) 1624501188.0
See the video below:
“Go after their budget” https://t.co/uNX5vYpoDv— Acyn (@Acyn) 1624501631.0
wait I've always thought it was the commie socialists who want to defund the military https://t.co/sYE9BqJJag— George Conway (@George Conway) 1624502220.0
Oy. @IngrahamAngle wants to DEFUND THE MILITARY? https://t.co/QyCN7a1Uw5— Paulette Feeney (@Paulette Feeney) 1624502073.0
Fox "News" wants to cancel the military. https://t.co/hse9wzDYl7— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch.com) 1624502084.0
Laura Ingraham wants to cut the military budget to punish our service members. This is “conservative” thought now.… https://t.co/tXS2nrlA4U— Fred Wellman (@Fred Wellman) 1624501718.0
Not satisfied with showing their hypocrisy on their “party of law and order” angle by assaulting police officers on… https://t.co/wMmULsMpSy— Bradley P. Moss (@Bradley P. Moss) 1624501905.0
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office announced Wednesday that they'd fired a lieutenant who was at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, reported KENS5.
Roxanne Mathai has been suspended for the past six months pending an investigation, but it was announced Wednesday she was being dismissed. Mathai is an avid Trump supporter who went to the rally and then walked to the Capitol. She posted photos and videos of the incident on her social media pages, leading Sheriff Javier Salazar to inform her he sent screenshots to the FBI.
"She was an excited Trump supporter at a historical rally," Mathai's attorney, Hector Cortes, said in Jan. "And, as everybody does these days on social media, she took pictures. She posted pictures of herself and her excitement on the way."
Mathai didn't appear to breach the Capitol or attack any other officers but it has still been a problem for the department.
"At some point the assembly became unlawful, and, at another point, she was still there, and she documented that with pictures," Sheriff Salazar explained. "We're going to hold her accountable for the most we possibly can."
She has filed a grievance against her dismissal, but the county's sheriff's office said the decision was upheld.
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