ATLANTA – During a House hearing about the attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde read from a prepared statement to take issue with people calling the assault “an insurrection.”
“There was no insurrection,” the freshman Republican from Athens, Georgia, said. “And to call it an insurrection, in my opinion, is a bold-faced lie.”
The congressman went on to say that video from that day showed people walking through the main floor of the Capitol in an orderly fashion.
“If you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January the sixth, you’d actually think it was a normal tourist visit,” he said
Clyde’s comments cannot be accepted or ignored. Police officers were attacked, beaten, crushed, and doused with bear spray. 140 were injured. Two committed suicide.