Loudermilk changes story about tours (It was just) "A constituent family with young children."

[Botany]

CNN)The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection said Thursday it has evidence that GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk led a tour of the US Capitol complex the day before pro-Trump rioters stormed the building, according to a letter requesting the Republican lawmaker's voluntary cooperation with their ongoing probe.

The letter notes the committee has reviewed evidence that "directly contradicts" previous claims by Republican lawmakers who said security footage from the days before January 6 shows "[t]here were no tours, no large groups, no one with MAGA hats on" of the US Capitol complex.

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Loudermilk and GOP Rep. Rodney Davis, the top Republican on the House Administration Committee, issued a joint statement later Thursday responding to the committee's letter again pushing back on any allegation of "reconnaissance" tours on January 5 and calling for Capitol Police to release the footage.

"A constituent family with young children meeting with their Member of Congress in the House Office Buildings is not a suspicious group or 'reconnaissance tour.' The family never entered the Capitol building," they wrote.

The letter comes more than a year after some House Democrats accused Republicans of providing tours in the days leading up to January 6 to individuals who later stormed the Capitol.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/politics/barry-loudermilk-capitol-tour-january-6/index.html

Loudermilk even filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Mikie Sherrill for saying she had seen republicans leading
tours of the Capitol prior to the 1/6/21 attempted coup

[dchill]

1. They're just going to roll the footage, Barry.

[Quakerfriend]

2. Yes! 🤣

Harry Littman said that he believes they likely have cell phone footage taken by those on the tour as well.

[2naSalit]

3. ...

[agingdem]

12. how stupid are these GOP congress critters!!

they are never alone...and someone always has a cell phone set on video...and you can bet Loudmouth's "constituents" shared their "tour" with other like-minded constituents...

[PatSeg]

15. Incredibly stupid indeed

They still haven't figured out that we live in an age where there is almost always some kind of video evidence, yet they continue to lie as if that will make a difference.

[Botany]

4. Sum up

So Loudermilk was giving tours of the US Capitol on 1/5/21 to domestic terrorists who were working

... to stop the Constitutional transfer of power to President Elect Joe Biden and on 1/6/21 he was speaking
to Donald Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who was in the White House and talking to and D. Trump

And Loudermilk signed off on a letter saying that there were no tours given and wrote to the A.G., Merrick Garland https://loudermilk.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3982
about 1st amendment freedoms and peaceful protests.

Link to tweet

BREAKING - Capitol Building CCTV feeds showed Rep Louie Gohmert GOP-TX, Rep Jim Jordan GOP-OH, Rep Matt Gaetz GOP-FL, Rep Lauren Boebert GOP-CO, Marjorie Taylor Greene GOP-GA, Paul Gosar GOP-AZ, Andy Biggs GOP-AZ were involved in giving ‘reconnaissance’ tours to groups 1/5.

Link to tweet

BREAKING: January 6 committee has video proof of Capitol tours on January 5, 2021. They were casing the joint — it was an inside job, just as we’ve suspected.


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Everyone of these mother fuckers should be kicked out of Congress if these allegations of Capitol Tours is proven (they have ‘em on tape) and they should be suspended from being members of Congress now until these charges are cleared up.


So who is going to sing the most Meadows or Loudermilk?

[dchill]

5. My shit list:

Rep Louie Gohmert GOP-TX
Rep Jim Jordan GOP-OH
Rep Matt Gaetz GOP-FL
Rep Lauren Boebert GOP-CO
Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene GOP-GA
Rep Paul Gosar GOP-AZ
Rep Andy Biggs GOP-AZ

All of them should go to prison. We'll be lucky if they're even expelled from Congress.

[Botany]

7. They supported this:

Those 1/6/21 thugs who Trump invited to D.C. wanted to find and hang Speaker Pelosi
and the Vice President in order to overturn the results of an election and stop the
Constitutionally directed transfer of power.

[crickets]

23. Or, the Recon Seven as I like to call them. What a nasty bunch. nt

[Emile]

33. I would love to see Jim Jordan in handcuffs!

Everyone of them should be in prison.

[dchill]

34. OGY!

(Oh God, Yes!)

[malaise]

11. We always knew why they threatened the communications companies

Bwaaaaah! This shit will be career ending.
From Loudermilk to milk dud.

[lastlib]

29. Now clabber milk......

It will either be career-ending, or depending on district, career-enhancing. If they scream "librul media frame-up" loud enough, often enough, many of their constituents will swallow it.

[OverBurn]

13. They should be kicked out. They should be jailed. Will anything really happen, we'll see.

[Ray Bruns]

19. Did they look something like this.

?quality=75&strip=all&w=410&h=231

[spanone]

40. SHOW THE VIDEO AT THE TELEVISED HEARINGS.....SHOW THE WORLD THE TRAITORS.

[Rebl2]

21. My exact thought too

[dchill]

30. Looks like they're sticking with 100% denial.

Lying security cameras.

[Hoyt]

6. Should be simple to prove, one way or the other. Lots of cameras in Capitol and on grounds.

Just one photo of any of those Congresspeople showing Proud Boyz, OafKeepers, etc., the doors would pretty much do it.

If the Committee has that, put it up and refer to DOJ.

[ProfessorGAC]

44. I Read Over 600

It was a while back, and I can't find the article now. Must be using bad search terms.
But, essentially every square foot is covered by one or more 4k HD cameras.
I did find one article that said they are keeping the footage almost all secret. And, Congress exempted itself when it passed the FOIA law.

[Blue Owl]

8. Loudermilk's turning the desperation volume up to 11

[VWolf]

26. LOVE the Spinal Tap reference n/t

[Blue Owl]

36. Gotta watch that again -- a true classic, makes me laugh every time!

[Walleye]

9. Great, congressman, now is your chance to come in and straighten it out under oath

[spanone]

10. loudermilk lied....imagine that.

[KS Toronado]

16. His next lie will be.....

"That isn't me, looks like my stunt double"

[malaise]

22. Here's what I don't get

All tours were cancelled because of Covid so this lie makes no sense

[forgotmylogin]

31. Exactly!

They weren't taking a general tour, they were chaperoned guests who got an exception.

[Katcat]

14. I've said it before

And I’ll say it again. Those taking the “tours” were undoubtedly videoing the routes to specific sites. And those videos were no doubt shared via messaging or some other way. Heck they might have been posted on FB

[PatSeg]

18. I agree

They aren't the brightest insurrectionists in the world. They are more ego oriented than reconnaissance inclined - "Look at me!"

[agingdem]

27. they want the credit if the coup is successful

but go all "gaslight" when it fails..."that's not me, I was never there", "yes, that was me but we never went to the Capital", "yes, that's me at the Capital, but I was only giving my constituents bathroom directions"..."yes, that was me but how would I know my "constituents" were Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Nazis?", "yes, my constituents were Proud Boys, Oath, Keepers, Nazis, and yes, they had schematic maps of congressional offices..souvenirs, keepsakes, nothing more"...

[PatSeg]

39. Exactly

And never responsible for anything they did or said. Always ready with another lame excuse.

[Hulk]

17. An easy fix....if the "guests" showed up 1/6...?

I'm sure they would have records, or video surveillance that shows exactly who were on these guided tours. If ANY of their "guests" stormed the walls the following morning....then the evidence speaks for itself.

If, on the other hand, all those tour "guests" were simply constituent family members, and none of them returned the following day, then we can move on.

Pretty simple in my book.

[PatSeg]

20. Yep and right now the 1/6 committee

knows far more than we can even imagine. They wouldn't have publicly invited Loudermilk to testify before the committee if they didn't have some real evidence. We have no idea what all they have seen and heard, hopefully leaving no stone unturned.

[Botany]

24. The whole thing is a big fat lie from Laudermilk

Lie 1) I never gave any tours or saw any MAGA hats on 1/5 ... now he has admitted to giving a tour

Lie 2) It was just a family who were my constituents and the tour was on the evening of 1/5. The US
Capitol was on a covid lock down @ that time.

Lie 3) We (GOP congresspersons) reviewed the tapes and saw no tours.

[lastlib]

32. Well, of course they saw no tours.....

they had their hands over their eyes the whole time.

[SheltieLover]

25. He's a qpuke, lips moving, it's a lie.

[Novara]

28. So yeah, the J6 committee has the goods. Lordy, there are tapes.

How about that, doubters?





How fucking stupid do you have to be to give recon tours during lockdown when no one was supposed to be giving tours, ON CAMERA, and then LYING ABOUT IT?

Holy hell, thank your lucky stars that these people are THIS DUMB.


I am not surprised at who got fingered but I am surprised that there were that many. I assumed it was just Boebert and Greene. I'm glad to be wrong. And I'm guessing there were probably more.

Imagine how much more evidence the J6 committee has!! I see this stuff continuing to trickle out before the hearings to make the traitors REALLY uncomfortable.

[Mr. Evil]

35. It certainly appears that

someone is sweating gallons and peeing out of their ass right about now.

[kentuck]

37. Most Congressmen were telling their aides and assistants to take off on January 6th...

It's difficult to believe that some would have their family there for a tour just the day before?

It sounds like he assumes the only video available could only come from the Capitol Police? Which they may have already gotten and doctored?

But there may be independent evidence apart from that?

Why would they lie about it unless there was something to hide?

This is the most incredible scandal in American history!

[Botany]

38. "This is the most incredible scandal in American history!"

And it goes back to Vlad Putin installing D. Trump as President in 2016 and much of the
Republican Party and the news media* acquiesced to "the big lie" that Trump won fair and
square when they all knew it was part of the biggest crime in America's history.

* Cut to breathless coverage of some racist ass red neck Trump voter talking about "his values,
free dumbs, and being a patriot."

BTW if they had stopped Putin in 2016 from installing Trump America and the world wouldn't
have to be dealing with the C-19 pandemic or Russia invading Ukraine.

[Kid Berwyn]

42. Three Supreme Court Justices appointed by Putin.

Thanks, Deutsche Bank!

[Kid Berwyn]

41. Loudermilk! Your ass is grass.

Bastard traitor links with Sen. Mike Lee to Big Oil, no carbon tax, leave the plastics in the graves Old Money trumps Peace crowd.

[Initech]

43. There were young children wanting to hang the vice president?

Also everything was closed because of COVID, there should have been no tours anywhere. Nice try, Barry.