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Photo Emerges of Republican Barricading Chamber Doors During Capitol Siege After He Compared Rioters to ‘Tourists’

On January 6th, the United States experienced a failed coup. There is no way to get around it. From Wiki:

A coup d’état or coup is the removal and seizure of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power by a political faction,

The crowds gathered, violently got into the Capitol, they attempted to either force Mike Pence to send the Electoral College votes back to the states for further investigation (which Trump claims would result in an automatic win, or at least implies), that the crowd delayed the government’s procedure and had people running for their lives. The crowd took away the power of the government. It was wholly illegal, hence the police out front, and they demanded Pence do something unconstitutional.

The United States experienced a coup d’tat. No getting around it.

Fortunately, it failed. Last week, GOP MAGA Rep Andrew Clyde said it was nothing and if someone didn’t know the vote was going on, they’d have thought it was a private tour. That was last week. This week, we have a picture of Clyde helping to bar the door to the House of Representatives from the tourists: From Business Insider:

A photo emerged of a GOP lawmaker who last week downplayed the Capitol siege and compared the rioters to tourists barricading the House doors with furniture on January 6.

Rep. Andrew Clyde said during a House oversight committee hearing on Wednesday that it was a “bald-faced lie” to call the riot a siege. He said the riot, in which hundreds of Trump supporters breached the Capitol, resembled a “normal tourist visit.”

After Clyde’s comments, a photographer shared a photo he had taken of Clyde using furniture to barricade the House against rioters trying to force their way in to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory. Several people died in the riot.

Tourists. Jeezus these people.

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