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Speaker Johnson Explains Holdup In Releasing Jan 6 Tapes: ‘We Have To Blur Some Of The Faces’ To Protect Them From The DOJ

www.mediaite.com Mike Johnson Explains Holdup In Releasing Jan 6 Tapes: 'We Have To Blur Some Of The Faces'

Mike Johnson claimed he will release the rest of the Jan. 6 footage in the interest of transparency, as soon as staffers blur the faces of the participants.

Yes. You read that right. Johnson is saying that he is intentionally hiding insurrectionists from prosecution in the release of tapes that Republicans claim will vindicate them on January 6th.

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Far-right Republicans like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and former President Donald Trump have praised Johnson’s promise to release the footage, saying it will “prove” that the activities of Jan. 6, 2021, were peaceful.
Only morons and guilty people believe this. I saw evidence to the contrary on live broadcast.
- Someone was peacefully trampled to death, Ashley Babbitt was peacefully shot breaking into the capitol, and those were gallows of peace.
  
  They literally dragged a security guard out of the door and ~~beat him to death~~. Because of all the preconditions that the seditionists set up, there were few guards and they didn't escalate. It saved their lives at least, but it was corrupt to the core
  
  I think you're confusing Michael Fanone (dragged out, tased and beaten, had a heart attack but survived) with Brian Sicknick (had a stroke late that night and died the next day). To my knowledge, Sicknick wasn't involved in any assault that is believed to have caused his death.
  (Before anyone jumps down my throat, I think all the Jan 6th rioters are traitors. I just think it's important to be accurate.)
  
  Honestly I saw the thing live and read some time after that security guards died and just put two and two together
  
  Wait, I thought they backed tracked that claim of beating to death. Instead it was determined it was something else that was a result of that day. Heart attack or something along the lines.
  
  Natural causes…that resulted from being beaten to half an inch of his life and left to die, yeah?
  They record the final cause (heart attack, aneurism,) as being the cause… but no one who reads the autopsy report with even half a brain really thinks he would be alive today if the beating never happened
  
  “Officially” it was “natural causes” and a total “coincidence” that a Trump-supporting cop was beaten to near-death by other Trump supporters and died within hours. Naturally. As one does.
  
  Probably Excited Delirium
  
  Chronic hysteria
  
  Breaking outside windows to gain access, etc.
- I was gonna say, we watched the events play out live on both news and social media. Peaceful protestors don't scale the walls of the capitol building, bulldoze baracades, and threaten capitol police, all while chanting stop the steal.
- That’s like saying a school shooting was peaceful because over 99.9% of people weren’t being violent.
- Also all the people who went to jail for being peaceful.

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