Without evidence, Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz (HI) and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) and Ilhan Omar (MN) all engaged in the promotion of a conspiracy concerning the breach on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month and their Republican colleagues.
Schatz, Ocasio-Cortez, and Omar all posted Friday that they have not given any Capitol tours in the last week. Ocasio-Cortez took it a step further in the promotion of the &#8220;suspicious tours&#8221; conspiracy, asking Republican lawmakers to answer if they&#8217;ve given any Capitol tours recently.
The unproven theory gained national attention, last week. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-reps-demand-capitol-police-investigation-of-suspicious-tours-day-before-capitol-attack">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>Thirty members of Congress have submitted a letter to the House Sergeant-at-Arms, the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms, and the Capitol Police requesting an investigation into what they’ve termed “suspicious tours” of the United States Capitol conducted on Tuesday of last week, the day before a rally in support of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of November’s presidential election turned into a riot.
As The Daily Wire reported earlier on Wednesday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-rep-accuses-gop-lawmakers-of-abetting-protesters-in-reconnaissance-mission-ahead-of-capitol-riot">Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NY) claimed in a Facebook</a> Live that “some of her Republican Congressional colleagues led people through the United States Capitol last Tuesday on what appeared to be a ‘reconnaissance’ mission ahead of Wednesday’s attack.”
[&#8230;] Sherrill did not mention any of her colleagues by name, nor cite any specific evidence in support of her claim — and did not provide any further details when pressed by media — but did tell Fox News that she and others were “requesting an investigation right now with certain agencies.”</blockquote>
To date, there is no evidence Republican lawmakers were &#8220;in&#8221; on the breach at the Capitol, as suggested by leading Democrats.
&#8220;Ok, I will start,&#8221; Schatz posted to Twitter on Friday. &#8220;I didn’t give any Capitol tours to anyone last week.&#8221;
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Ok, I will start. I didn’t give any Capitol tours to anyone last week.
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&#8220;Me too, I didn’t give any Capitol tours to anyone last week,&#8221; Omar quote-tweeted the post.
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Me too, I didn’t give any Capitol tours to anyone last week. <a href="https://t.co/044N61afFe">https://t.co/044N61afFe</a>
&mdash; Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1350233011942469634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I can say with 100% confidence I didn’t give any Capitol tours to anyone last week,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said, quote-tweeting Omar. &#8220;Any Republicans out there who want to join us in answering this question?&#8221;
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I can say with 100% confidence I didn’t give any Capitol tours to anyone last week.
Any Republicans out there who want to join us in answering this question? <a href="https://t.co/gtGODzjuWX">https://t.co/gtGODzjuWX</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1350250343351914502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-says-she-almost-died-during-riot-declines-to-give-details-suggests-conspiracy-involving-police">The Daily Wire</a> last week, Ocasio-Cortez promoted another unproven conspiracy about the breach on the Capitol. This time, the congresswoman suggested Capitol Police officers engaged in &#8220;acts of betrayal&#8221; during the incident.
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-says-she-almost-died-during-riot-declines-to-give-details-suggests-conspiracy-involving-police">video</a> posted to Instagram, Ocasio-Cortez &#8220;suggested that there was some sort of conspiracy that had taken place because something &#8216;was wrong from the inside&#8217; and that there were &#8216;acts of betrayal&#8217; by law enforcement that she claims led to her not knowing if an officer was &#8216;there to help you or to harm you.'&#8221;
“It was an extremely traumatizing event, and it is not an exaggeration to say that many, many members of the House were nearly assassinated,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “It’s just not an exaggeration to say that at all. We were very lucky that things happened within certain minutes that allowed members to escape the House floor unharmed. But, many of us nearly and narrowly escaped death and it’s also extremely traumatizing. And what was also traumatizing was how unsettling that day was because there was a sense that something was wrong, and obviously with the violence, but there was a sense that something was wrong from the inside.”
“As we saw, there were members of Capitol Police who were quite heroic, you know, we have many officers, and, you know, there were also black and brown officers that were confronting white supremacists, and putting themselves, not just to protect members, but they put themselves in harms way on the front line, facing the racist violence of white supremacists ordered by Donald Trump to attack the Capitol,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “And so there were those acts of heroism, but, next to that, there was also acts of betrayal. And, to run, in the Capitol, in our nation’s capital, and not know if an officer is there to help you or to harm you is also quite traumatizing.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-says-she-almost-died-during-riot-declines-to-give-details-suggests-conspiracy-involving-police">AOC Says She Almost Died During Riot, Declines To Give Details; Suggests Conspiracy Involving Police</a>
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Revving up her rhetoric, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who has been rumored to be <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/532501-ocasio-cortez-on-challenging-schumer-im-trying-to-decide-what-is-the-most">considering a run</a> for New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s seat, announced she has issued a “demand” for the resignations of GOP senators Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, among others, in the wake of the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Ocasio-Cortez intoned, “What we saw last week was not just a violent coup attempt, but we also saw a dereliction of duty and a betrayal of our country and a betrayal of the oath that we swear. And that is why I have demanded the resignations of senators (sic) Ted Cruz, senators (sic) Josh Hawley, Majority Leader, Republican Major— rather, Republican Minority Leader in the House McCarthy, Kevon McCarthy, along with many others, because this is not just about political opinion or partisanship. This was about the abandonment of our sworn oath.”
“For what?” she continued. “For personal ambition? For greater loyalty to a base?”
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: &quot;I have demanded the resignations of Sens. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/A3oLgjjDL8">pic.twitter.com/A3oLgjjDL8</a>
&mdash; The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1350816395341295616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez’s new “demands” follow her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-fumes-at-cruz-hawley-get-out-you-do-not-belong-here-youll-never-be-president/">comments last week</a> on Instagram in which she railed, &#8220;And so, I want to be clear to Senator Ted Cruz, you do not belong in the United States Senate. I want to be clear to Senator Josh Hawley, you do not belong in the United States Senate. You do not belong in any democratically elected seat when you don’t, when you do not believe that that election was even legitimate, according to your self-serving claims. So get out.&#8221;
&#8220;If they had any shred of integrity, any shred of integrity about their claims, their lies really, but their claims about this election, they would take off their pin and turn it in,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;But this isn’t about the truth to them. This is about if they want to be president in 2024. Let me give you a sneak peak. You will never be president. You will never command the respect of this country. Ever. Ever. And you should resign. So should every member of Congress that voted to overturn the results of our election.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez’s desire to exert control over Congress dovetails with her recent statements about how she wants to “rein in our media environment.” As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wholly-un-american-ocasio-cortez-slammed-for-advocating-congressional-clamp-down-on-media/">The Daily Wire</a> reported on Friday:
<blockquote>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is facing backlash for saying this week that she has discussed media literacy initiatives with members of Congress to &#8220;rein in&#8221; reporting that is either misinformation or disinformation.
Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks during an Instagram Live video in response to the following question: “Any discussion in Congress about federal truth and reconciliation or media literacy initiatives to help with healing?”
“What I can say is that there’s absolutely a commission that’s being discussed, but it seems to be more investigatory in style rather than truth and reconciliation and so I think that’s an interesting concept for us to explore,” Ocasio-Cortez responded. “And I do think that several members of Congress in some of my discussions have brought up media literacy because that is a part of what happened here and we’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation.”
She added, “It’s one thing to have differing opinions but it’s another thing entirely to just say things that are false and so that’s something that we’re looking into.”</blockquote>
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