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May 25, 2021
It Was Not an Insurrection It Was a Group of Innocent Patriots on Their Way to 2-for-1 Taco Night at Chili’s
“Republican lawmakers have recently downplayed or outright denied the violence of the January 6 insurrection as a bipartisan agreement to investigate the siege is in limbo on Capitol Hill.” – CNN, 5/20/21
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All right, folks, for some reason, my colleagues across the aisle and a tiny, insignificant group of traitorous individuals from my own party seem to think that Congress needs an official commission to investigate the so-called Capitol “insurrection” on January 6th. As someone who personally helped barricade the door to the house chamber, I’ll be the first to admit that there were a few bad apples in the crowd that day. But after weighing how this could affect me politically, I’ve concluded that this was not an insurrection. It was a group of innocent patriots armed with stun gu