By Susan Jones | February 1, 2021 | 7:01am EST
Members of the National Guard stand at a security checkpoint near the US Capitol ahead of Joe Biden s inauguration on Jan. 20. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Fencing still surrounds the U.S. Capitol, while thousands of National Guard troops still patrol the grounds, at least through mid-March.
The show of force is intended to make a political point, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) told Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo: At this point, it feels like it s about props, politics and power, Zeldin said:
There s a narrative that Democrats want to push about January 6, and it representing 75 million voters of Donald Trump. What happened inside of the Capitol, you see Democrats trying to leverage that to be representative of something much greater than that.
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