Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) makes a striking claim in her new upcoming book, "MTG": that no Democrats were willing to defend the House chamber from the MAGA rioters breaching the Capitol on January 6.
“Several of the Republican congressmen said, ‘We’re going to stay right here and defend the House chamber,’" she wrote. "As they began barricading the door with furniture, I noticed not one Democrat was willing to stay to defend the chamber.”
But some of her Democratic colleagues are calling this out as untrue, reported The Guardian on Wednesday — including Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), who recounts he actually did just that.
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“I got into ranger mode a little bit. Most of the members didn’t know how to use the emergency masks, so I was helping them get their emergency masks out of the bags and helped instruct a bunch of folks on how to put it on and how to use it. I wasn’t going to leave the House floor until every member was gone, so I waited until we were able to get everybody out,” Crow told The Denver Post at the time. He followed up with The Guardian: “Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t exist in the same reality as the rest of us. For those of us who were there on January 6 and actually defended the chamber from violent insurrectionists, her view is patently false. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about.”
Other lawmakers have similar accounts of Democrats leaping into action to protect fellow lawmakers, in particular two who served in the Marines: “You also saw members doing their part to facilitate our evacuation – Seth Moulton, Ruben Gallego, and four or five others … who assumed a role of helping us to get out of there and working with the Capitol police to make sure that we were all safe,” Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) told Business Insider.
This comes after Republicans sought to push a number of other disputed narratives about the attack, including that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refused assistance from the National Guard — a claim which has been repeatedly debunked.
