Capitol riots

A senior FBI official repeatedly refused to answer when grilled by Ted Cruz on Tuesday whether the federal agency participated in January 6.

Celebrated evangelical preacher Franklin Graham has blamed “the swamp” for the 2021 Capitol riots, noting that the vast majority of protesters were “patriots.”

The Democrats’ myopic focus on the January 6 Capitol riots does not resonate with ordinary Americans, because people are worried about “everyday life,” Newt Gingrich said this week.

The White House has rejected former President Donald Trump’s latest claims of executive privilege regarding documents requested by the House committee investigating the Capitol Hill riot on January 6.

CNN anchor Jim Acosta said Thursday on “Situation Room” that former President Donald Trump was an “unrepentant arsonist” while discussing his statement in support of the January 6 Capitol rioters.

CNN political commentator Ashley Allison said Thursday on “The Lead” that those planning to attend the Justice for J6 rally in D.C. Saturday have “very close parallels to the Taliban.”

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) Thursday on CNN’s “New Day” called on his Republican colleagues to “denounce militia-ism.”

The fences that once surrounded the U.S. Capitol will return “temporarily” before the rally takes place on September 18.

An internal investigation conducted by the Capitol Police has cleared the unnamed officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol Hill riot on January 6. 

Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore compared rioters who entered the U.S. Capitol in January to radical Taliban terrorists on Monday

Former Trump administration DHS official Miles Taylor said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that “radicalized elements” of the Republican Party represented a “bigger threat to our democracy” than terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS ever did.

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that he believed former President Donald Trump attempted a coup with a “conscious plan, strategy, that did not work.”

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told CNN’s Dana Bash on “Newsroom” that she feared being raped during the January 6 Capitol riot because “white supremacy and patriarchy are very linked,” and she believes that animated rioters.

MSNBC anchor Nicole Wallace said on Tuesday on her show “Deadline” that Fox News hosts, who she claimed were mostly Republican men, had “whored themselves out to a delusion” by “mocking” the police that responded to the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Wednesday on CNN “The Situation Room” that no Republican lawmakers actually believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Joy Behar called Fox News primetime hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham “unpatriotic traitors.”

Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that she believed Republicans denying the severity of the January 6 Capitol riot and former President Donald Trump’s responsibility were “shameful.”

An ESPN reporter noted he was triggered by seeing the U.S. flag at the Olympics and that it left him “thinking back on the Capitol riots.”

Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Tuesday’s broadcast of “America Reports” that today’s testimony from Capitol Police officers to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was “damning.”

Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) responded to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy calling her a “Pelosi Republican” in a video played Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”

Representative David Cicilline (D-RI) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi” that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) attempted to turn the House Select Committee instigating the Capitol riot into a “circus.”

Representative Jim Banks (R-ID), one of the two GOP lawmakers blocked by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) from serving on the January 6 Select Committee, said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that the Speaker was trying to avoid questions about her responsible for the “breakdown of security” that allowed for the storming the Capitol.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that she planned to appoint Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) to the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riots.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Republicans could not “handle the truth,” pertaining to what the House Select Committee will discover about the January 6 Capitol riots.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was right to block House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) picks of Reps. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) from Serving on January 6 Committee.

Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that the House Select Committee on the January 6 Capitol riots will have to hear testimony from former President Donald Trump.

Representative Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was opposed to the Democrats Select Committee on the January 6 Capitol riot because he wa attempting a “cover-up” of the details of the “insurrection.”

Former advisor to Vice President Mike Pence Olivia Troye said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appointing Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riots is akin to putting Osama Bin Laden’s lieutenant to investigate the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

A man who engaged in non-violent protest at the Capitol was given eight months prison, while hundreds of BLM cases have been dropped.

Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that former President Donald Trump was a “very dumb man” who could not have attempted a “coup” after the 2020 election without help.

Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the House Select Committee investigating January 6, said Monday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily” that the committee will investigate if Republican members of Congress helped Capitol rioters.

Sportscaster Bob Costas said Friday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” that supporters of former President Donald Trump were not the patriots they claim to be because they tried to overthrow an election.

Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the House Select Committee investigating January 6, said Friday on CNN’s “OutFront” that the Democrats would move forward without Republicans if that is necessary.

Representative Madeleine Dean (D-PA) claimed Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that Republicans are the only party that both disrespects and defunds the police.

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, declared Wednesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that former President Donald Trump was “dangerous.”

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that Republicans were damaging the term patriot by making it synonymous with “insurrectionists.”