January 6: GOP senator Roy Blunt says Americans do not need ‘alternative versions’ of the Capitol attack

“We do not have to try to clear away or think of alternative versions. We have all seen what happened,” Blunt told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on January 6 when a crowd of former Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election clashed with law enforcement, looting congressional offices and threatening the lives of then-Vice President Mike Pence and lawmakers.

The Republican in Missouri called January 6 a terrible day for America, “I think it was absolutely unacceptable and we can not allow that kind of thing to be repeated in our country again.”

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Johnson falsely claimed on Saturday that there was no violence on the part of the U.S. Capitol during the attack, and earlier this month said he “never really felt threatened” and “did not worry” during the riot because he believed that the rioters were “people who love this country, who truly respect law enforcement, will never do anything to break the law.”
The Republican in Wisconsin has made several comments about the seriousness of the attack on the Capitol, including that he does not believe there was ‘armed uprising’. Johnson also argued the conspiracy theory that there were professional provocateurs inside the Capitol – despite the fact that the FBI said there was no evidence that Antifa or any other group of left-wing instigators were part of the crowd.
Former Republican President George W. Bush told the Texas Tribune that he was “sick to my stomach … to see our country’s Capitol being stormed by hostile forces.”

Blunt told NBC on Sunday that he “much more agrees” with Bush’s view of what happened on January 6.

While talks on forming an independent 9/11-style commission to investigate the riot have stalled, Blunt, as the Republican Republican of the Senate’s leading Republican, argued that Congress “can go ahead and make the changes. which must be affixed “to the safety of Capitol.

“Congress itself has the ability to move forward,” Blunt said. “It does not mean that I am opposed to a commission, but honestly I believe that the commission would probably be a reason to wait and not do the things we have to do now.”

Blunt announced earlier this month that he would not seek re-election.

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