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Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) was blasted on Wednesday after he proclaimed in a hearing that the attack on the U.S. Capitol never happened. In what is being called "insurrection denial," Clyde told a House hearing that the protesters were mere "visitors" who filed into the building "in an orderly fashion.

The Fix did their own video, splicing three Republicans who have claimed that the attack never happened or characterized it as a rowdy group of "misfits."

On Wednesday, BuzzFeed News reported that Buckingham Palace is instructing the "Trump Train" bus that appeared at the "America First" tour of Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to remove a doctored image of Queen Elizabeth II wearing a MAGA hat.

"A Palace spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that they were aware of the fact that the Queen's image was being used, saying 'representations asking for [the photo's] removal have been made,'" reported Ellie Hall.

Two pilots escaped a fiery helicopter crash in Oklahoma City on Wednesday.

According to KWTV, the aircraft belonged to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and had two pilots on board with no one else. According to the CPB, the pilots were OK.

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has just announced he will not support HR1, the critical voting rights protection and expansion bill already passed by the House of Representatives.

"I believe Democrats and Republicans feel very strongly about protecting the ballot boxes allowing people to protect the right to vote making it accessible making it fair and making it secure," Manchin told ABC News' Rachel Scott.

Writing in Mother Jones this Wednesday, Russ Choma contends that Windham, New Hampshire, has currently become ground zero in Donald Trump's "ongoing crusade to prove his conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen through rampant fraud."

"And the local Republican lawmaker pushing to turn an uncontroversial election audit there into a Big Lie battlefront has longstanding ties to Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who is also a resident of the town of 13,000," Choma writes.

Republican officials and conservative commentators are sounding the alarm about the high cost of gas after a pipeline was hacked and what they say is out-of-control inflation.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) have both been sounding the alarm that the U.S. is facing an economic crisis.

Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday refused to meet with a DC Metropolitan police officer who wanted to talk to him about the attack on Jan. 6.

"I just spoke with a very upset Officer Michael Fanone. It's #PoliceWeek and for weeks," tweeted Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), "Fanone has made multiple requests to talk to @GOPLeader. He wants to show McCarthy what he experienced on 1/6. Today he was hung up on by McCarthy's staff. RT if Kevin should meet a hero."

Former Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller said Wednesday that Donald Trump was interested in the deployment of the National Guard during their Jan. 3 discussion.

When Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) questioned, "did you tell the president about the mayor's requests or did President Trump ask if there were requests?"

"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert opened his Tuesday show with a cure for the make-believe disease "Foxitis." The fake disease was an excuse from a Capitol attacker Anthony Antonio who appeared in court last week.

Antonio's lawyer blamed the right-wing network that his client had watched for several months non-stop. According to him, that causes "Foxitis" or "Foxmania."

Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller will testify before the House Wednesday that former President Donald Trump had no involvement in denying the deployment of the National Guard when the U.S. Capitol was under attack.

According to his prepared opening statement, "my concerns regarding the appropriate and limited use of the military in domestic matters were heightened by commentary in the media about the possibility of a military coup or that advisors to the President were advocating the declaration of martial law."

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) spent the weekend proclaiming victory over the Justice Department probe into paid sexual relations with an underage teen. In fact, Gaetz is still under investigation and it has grown more serious as Gaetz's former intern-turned-girlfriend and wingman were interviewed about the accusations against him.

But on Tuesday, as the ousting of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) loomed over the House Republican Caucus, Gaetz stoked flames by mocking a February tweet from Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).

Republican gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner was asked about her vote in 2020 and whether she cast a ballot for her longtime friend Donald Trump.

Speaking to CNN's Dana Bash, Jenner explained that she opted to go golfing instead because she "couldn't get excited" about the ballot measures. It's unclear if Jenner knew at the time that voting records are public.

On CNN Tuesday, anchor Chris Cuomo tore into Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for his attack on the For the People Act, the Democrats' comprehensive voting rights and ethics reform bill which began debate in Senate committee this week.

Cuomo started off by noting that the wave of state voting restrictions this bill would strike down hurt Republican voters as well as Democratic ones.