Republicans Lie About Election Fraud On Capitol Steps Where Mob Raged On Jan. 6
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House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to say whether he'd accepted the 2020 election result or would accept the 2024 result.
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) held a press conference Wednesday outside the Capitol to denounce the phantom threat of election fraud.
“There is currently an unprecedented and a clear and present danger to the integrity of our election system, and that is the threat of non-citizens and illegal aliens voting in our elections,” Johnson said.
It’s illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections — they rarely do — and Johnson presented no evidence to the contrary. His press conference seemed designed to flatter former President Donald Trump as Johnson fends off a challenge to his speakership from the Trump-backing wing of the House Republican conference.
Johnson spoke from the base of the east steps to the House of Representatives, one of several parts of the Capitol stormed by Trump’s mob on Jan. 6, 2021. Newly released security camera footage from that day shows Trump supporters mounting the steps, then confronting and attacking police officers guarding the House. In one clip, at the top of the House steps, one of the rioters brandished a sign that said “end the FRAUD.”
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