Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says some of the people in the halls of Congress during the January 6, 2021 insurrection were “innocent” and just happened to be there, walking about the building. Some are viewing his remarks as a further push by Republicans to whitewash the attack, which led to an...
Speaker Johnson told Newsmax on Monday he was fulfilling the “commitment” he made to release to the public all the video Congress has from the January 6 insurrection, and had recently released 13,000 hours of tape — though he had initially tried to blur the faces of the “innocent.”
“So I made a commitment immediately after I got the gavel that we would start with this and that originally, we were trying to blur some of the faces to protect the innocent, you know, people who were just there and just happened to be walking through the building,” Johnson told Newsmax’s Eric Bolling.
Just ordinary everyday Republican censorship, you know.
Just ordinary everyday Republican censorship, you know.