It’s clear that for all the talk of impeachment as a partisan exercise, the insurrectionists who invaded the Capitol didn’t think along purely party lines.
Republican Michigan lawmaker, on hot mic, says he stands by statement calling Capitol riot a hoax
Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey was caught on a hot mic Wednesday on the Senate floor insisting to Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist that he does not take back any of the statements he has made recently.
By: WXYZ Staff
and last updated 2021-02-11 09:28:56-05
Mike Shirkey, the Republican majority leader of the Michigan state senate, was caught on a hot mic Wednesday seemingly walking back an apology he made earlier this week for calling the riots at the U.S. Capitol a hoax.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Republican legislative leader in Michigan apologized Tuesday after falsely claiming supporters of President Donald Trump were not involved in the deadly attack at the U.S.