An Oklahoma Republican congressman who was inside the Capitol during the riots on Wednesday challenged ABC’s “Good Morning America” host George Stephanopolous on Thursday when he repeatedly stated that President Trump had “encouraged” the rioters, stating, “It’s all of us. The media’s to blame; the Right and the Left is to blame.”
On Thursday morning, Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) told Stephanopolous, “The sergeant at arms and the Capitol police said there were heroes here, George, they showed a lot of restraint, the best they could, and there were some mistakes about shots being fired. It’s a matter of just communicating and understanding what’s happening at the time. There’s a lot of chaos going on, but I’ll tell you, the triage center down in the basement of one of our office buildings, there was way more than a dozen; there was 25 to 50 law officials — from male and female to Capitol police to D.C. police — and all of them had sustained injuries and all of them were doing their job, and God bless and preserve the real heroes.”
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