Committee chairman Benny Thompson asked Loudermilk to volunteer with the probe in May this year for the first time, giving him the opportunity to discuss the video, which the group revealed while reviewing the main Capitol surveillance video.
In a statement, USCP chief Mangers said the department’s revised footage did indeed show Loudermilk with a group of 12 people who initially reached 15 as they walked through several office buildings around the U.S. Capitol. Manger said the guests “did not appear in any tunnel” leading to the Capitol itself.
The committee’s release seems to call this story into question, or at least point to behavior that it still considers very suspicious.
“The above information raises questions for the selected committee to answer,” Thompson wrote in a letter to Wednesday morning.
“Public reports and witness testimony indicate that some individuals and groups have been involved in efforts to obtain information about the U.S. Capitol, House of Representatives, and Senate office plans prior to January 6, 2021,” Thompson wrote. For example, in the week following January 6, 2021, members urged law enforcement officials to investigate the “outside the group complex” observed on January 5, 2021, which appears to be related to a rally in the White House. The next day. “
Letter to Rep. Loudermilk Capitol Tour on June 15 at Daily Kos site Scribd
The committee, which accompanies Loudermilk, noted that “photographing and recording places in the complex that are not of general interest to tourists, including corridors, stairs and security checkpoints.”
Including a picture in the letter of a person photographing the stairs in the basement of the Longworth House office, Thompson notes that Loudermilk is nearby and talking to other members of the group in the background.
In a nearly three-minute video shared by the committee, a man who allegedly took part in the Capitol package tour given by Ludermilk on the 5th was recorded by a friend on the morning of the 6th.
They are near a Washington monument when his friend shows him a flagpole that he wears with a sharpened tip.
“It’s for a specific person,” the attendant tells the man.
“That’s right, it’s something special, something special,” the man replies.
On the day of the Capitol attack, the same man who photographed the medicine the day before is excited to hear a cry for the “patriots” merging with the Capitol.
“There’s nowhere to escape Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, we’re coming after you. We’re coming in white on rice Pelosi, Nadler, Schumer, even you AOC. We’re coming to take you out and pull your hair out.
What about Pelosi? Think of another meeting. When I’m done with you, you need to shine your bare head, ”he says.
The video also features two photos taken by the committee that appear to have been taken by the same person. One photo is with rap Jerry Nadler’s plaque, which usually appears right outside the legislature’s office. Another photo captures the physical directory of Democratic majority members.
Prior to the release of the video on Tuesday, Loudermilk accused the committee of making false accusations of conducting their reconnaissance tours.
“As far as I know, no one who visited my office on January 5 was involved in illegal activities on January 6, so if the committee has evidence, it should release it, not just bring charges,” Loudermilks told CNN.
A U.S. Capitol police spokesman did not respond immediately to the request for comment. Punchbowl News was the first to report that the committee had the material.
When a group of more than 30 Democrats first called for an inquiry into Loudermilk’s tours, he quickly denied and lodged a House of Representatives ethics complaint against Democrats, who called for a closer scrutiny.
Loudermilk condemned the Democrat’s request for an investigation as a “stain” on Congress. He also voted to cancel the approval of the results of the 2020 elections on 6 January after attack.
During the unrest, Loudermilk sent a report to Mark Meadows, Tramp’s then chief of staff, according to texts obtained by the select committee.
‘Here on the hill, it’s really bad. They have violated the Capitol, “he wrote.
Loudermilk has defended a tour of the Capitol on Jan. 5 as something he did for a “family with young children” who just wants to meet with his congressman.
Member of the Democratic Party. Jesus “Chuj” Garcia staff, Deputy Director of Communications and Digital Director Ben Camen announced on Twitter on Wednesday that he had seen a group identified by the committee in the Capitol Tunnel between Longworth and Cannon and the Capitol Building from January 1 at 1 to 2 p.m.
Kamen said they were unaccompanied. He has already provided this information to the committee and law enforcement authorities.
Kamen said in an email to the Daily Kos on Wednesday that he volunteered to interview the committee in February and sit for just under an hour.
“I approached one of them and asked to put on a mask because the people working here already had the conditions, and that was before the wide availability of vaccines,” said Kamens.
Indeed, the Capitol building was closed to visitors and anyone engaged in informal business.
“It simply came to our notice then [in their] Men between the ages of 40 and 50, teens in their early 20s, which I saw, ”said Rep. Garcia Communications Director. “I wouldn’t have gone that route if it hadn’t been for the intern’s first day and I wouldn’t show her how to move to get an ID badge.”
At the time he said he was an eyewitness, he was working as an assistant to New Jersey Democrat Congressman Andy Kim.
Kim accidentally made headlines after the uprising. He was noticed that after cleaning the building, he was clearing debris from the rotunda floor.
New York Democrats Alexandria Occasio-Cortes, who has been regularly persecuted by supporters of the former president and the Republican Party of Congress, responded to a video on Twitter on Wednesday.
Rep. Loudermilks did not respond immediately to a request for comments on Wednesday.
CBS News reported on Wednesday that it had reached Al Foley, who was identified as “one of the voters in Rep. Loudermilka who toured the Capitol with Congressman” on January 5 and was previously interviewed by the committee on January 6.
Foil told CBS that the suggestion that it was an intelligence tour was “the furthest from the truth.” The statement, Foley said, was “disgusting.”
A committee spokesman for the Daily Kos on Wednesday said he did not believe Foil was the man who photographed the staircase leading to the Longworth building.
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