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Far-Right Rep. falsely claims 'Democratic machine' paid insurrectionists – after urging them to threaten lawmakers
U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn claims "the Democratic machine" paid the Capitol insurrections who attempted a coup on January 6 to overt urn the election, after having told Trump supporters to "lightly threaten" lawmakers. The North Carolina freshman Republican made his false claim in the middle of the insurrection, when he took the time to call in to the radio show of a top Trump ally, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
“I believe that this was agitators strategically placed inside of this group — you can call them antifa, you can call them people paid by the Democratic machine — but to make the Trump campaign, the Trump movement, look bad," said Congressman Cawthorn, a far right grenade thrower who has already aligned himself with the QAnon crop of incoming House Republicans. "And to make this look like it was a violent outrage, when really the battle was being fought by people like myself and other great patriots who are standing up against the establishment and standing up against this tyranny that we see in our country."
'Homicidal' white supremacist arrested for Capitol riot after lying to parole officer about Bible handout
A self-professed white supremacist from Maryland was arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol after receiving permission from his parole officer to travel out of state.
Bryan Betancur was taken into custody Sunday after his GPS monitor placed him inside the Capitol during a Jan. 6 riot by President Donald Trump's supporters, after he told his parol officer that he'd taken part in the violent action and was paranoid the FBI was watching him, reported WJZ-TV.
Kayleigh McEnany's MLK Day tweet faces backlash: 'Don’t you have a Confederate flag & zip-ties to hide?'
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany felt the backlash of Twitter users on Monday after she marked MLK Day with a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools," McEnany wrote.
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