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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.

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

“Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler is reuniting with the team behind last year’s “Judas and the Black Messiah” to create a movie about political insurrection in the U.S.

Matthew Dowd said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that the January 6 Capitol riot was worse than the 9/11 terror attacks because Republicans are continuing the “big lie” that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, which is ripping our country apart.

Representative Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi” that it was “shocking” how anti-American those loyal to former President Donald Trump have become.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that if it came to it, former President Donald Trump should testify before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.

MSNBC contributor and former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that she is starting a “new family tradition” of watching videos of the January 6 Capitol Hill riot on the Fourth of July.

Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) said Friday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that a commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot was “absolutely friggin’ necessary.”

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, declared Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the select committee tasked with investigating the January 6 Capitol riot would hold a hearing, so the Capitol Police officers who were “let down” by GOP House members had an opportunity to tell the American people what happened.

The fence surrounding the United States Capitol will start to be taken down starting next week, according to one report.

Former President Barack Obama said Wednesday in a video played on CNN’s “Early Start with Christine Romans and Laura Jarrett” that it is worrisome that a strong majority of Republicans “actually believed” the misinformation that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election.

Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) would be called to testify before the select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill riot.

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Sunday on Fox 40’s “Inside California Politics” that Republicans and Fox News would not stop the investigation into the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Friday on MSNBC’s “All In” that Republican lawmakers who do not support the probe into the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill were “hypocrites” if they claimed to have a pro-law-and-order agenda.

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was too much of a weasel to appear before the January 6 Select Committee, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced earlier in the day.

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the Republican Party was “rolling with the cop killers” instead of standing with the Capitol Police by not backing a bipartisan investigation into the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that she believed Republican members of Congress were giving tours the day before to the people who were involved in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot.

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo said Wednesday on his show “Cuomo Prime Time” that Republicans, which he referred to as “the party of Trump,” would be going crazy if a black guy treated the police the way White guys did at the Capitol on January 6.

Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he was “dismayed’ that some on the right are disrespecting FBI by believing that the January 6 Capitol attack was a “false flag operation” by the FBI.

CNN correspondent Jim Acosta said Friday on “The Situation Room” that if former President Donald Trump does political rallies this summer, “you have to wonder” if there will be riots like January 6 at the U.S. Capitol.

Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said Friday on ABC’s “The View” that Democrats were “trying” to punish former President Donald Trump for alleged crimes with a commission to investigate the Capitol riot.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, during Wednesday’s broadcast of his show “All In,” complained that Fox News host Tucker Carlson was attempting to “to break the consensus of reality so that people can be manipulated and radicalized.”

President Joe Biden said supporters of former President Donald Trump “killed a police officer” after they stormed the Capitol on January 6th to protest the certification of the election.

The House Committee on Ethics tossed a “patently baseless claim” lodged against Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) by Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who alleged that the Arizona Republican violated ethics rules on January 6 by objecting to the seating of electors.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Republicans in the Senate blocked a bipartisan investigation into the Capitol riots because they were “afraid of the truth.”

Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that it was “a clear and present danger to the republic” that people who believe that President Joe Biden was an illegitimate president, warning that they could “make political change through violence.”

Former CIA Director John Brennan said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that there is no doubt “Donald J. Trump spewing forth the lies that the election was stolen” caused the Capitol riot.

During an interview with David Axelrod’s “The Axe Files” podcast, Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) discussed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) visiting former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the January 6 Capitol Hill riot.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said Sunday Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) team broke into his house to serve a lawsuit, probably committing a crime in the process to alleged hold brooks culpable for the January 6 riot. 

Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said Thursday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that there would not be another incident like the Capitol riot on January 6 given former President Donald Trump has lost support since that event.

Representative Jason Crow (D-CO) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Republican lawmakers can “show a very small fraction of the courage that is shown every day by our troops to do the right thing for our country” by creating a bipartisan January 6 commission.

Anchor Chuck Todd declared Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “sadly our democracy failed and failed big time” and blamed Senate Republicans for voting down a commission to investigate January 6.

Representative Jason Crow (D-CO) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “we have a growing violent extremism movement in the United States” spreading “the big lie” that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election.