A Republican representative went out to President Donald Trump on Wednesday for not dismissing the protesters who came down to the Capitol building Wednesday, citing some banana republican crap. it is.
Congressman Mike Gallagher posted a video to Twitter Wednesday afternoon saying: ‘Right now I’m sheltered in their office because we have protesters who have taken the Capitol by storm – fighting the Capitol Police, making its way into the Legislative Hall. The Vice President of the United States was ripped off the floor of the House by a Secret Service. ‘
‘This is Banana Republic crap that we’re watching happening right now,’ the Wisconsin representative continued.
Gallagher is a retired Captain who voted 93.8 percent of the time according to Trump in his first term and 84.2 percent in his second.
Several other Republicans began calling on Trump to dismiss the siege of thousands of supporters he made on the Capitol and urging Americans to be encouraged to express their protests in other ways.
‘This is what the president has caused today, this uprising,’ Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney said of the Capitol’s chaotic outlook.
Republican Representative Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin released a nearly two-minute video Wednesday while taking shelter in his office urging President Donald Trump to end the siege by his supporters on the Capitol
‘This is the banana Republic crap that we’re looking at happening right now,’ he said, adding: ‘Mr. President, you have to stop this. You are the only one who can turn this off. Call if it is off. The election is over. Turn it off! ‘
Thousands of Trump supporters descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday as Congress in an inside session moved to confirm the results of the Election College, the next step in launching Joe Biden to the White House
Protesters were able to break the Capitol and get inside, roaming the halls, sitting at desks and building some offices. One Trump supporter woman was burned in the coffin and is in a state of emergency
Gallagher said in his nearly two-minute video while sheltering in his office on Capitol Hill that his Republican colleagues were convinced he would oppose Electoral College votes to start a debate, but would take nothing. larger.
The representative said they were seriously mistaken, as evidenced by the attack on the Capitol.
‘The complainants over the last few days have told me that there is no problem with just having a debate. ‘We know we’re not going to succeed, so we’re just going to resist. We are going to have a debate, we will raise people ‘s concerns and then we will not abandon our whole system of representative government. So nothing bad will happen. They will not cost any effort. ‘, Gallagher said.
‘This is the cost of this effort,’ he continued. ‘This is the cost of rebalancing an attempt by Congress to reverse the election and tell thousands of people that there is a legitimate bullet in rejecting the election today. Even though you know that’s not true. ‘
Gallagher asked: ‘We need to stop this. Mr. President, you have to stop this. You are the only one who can turn this off. Call if it is off. The election is over. Turn it off! This is bigger than you. He is bigger than any member of Congress. It’s about the United States of America, which is more important than any politician. Turn off your phone. This is over. ‘
About an hour after Gallagher’s video – and another Republican wanting to stop the attack on the Capitol – Trump released a video doing just that.
He told his supporters to ‘go home’ in a video posted to Twitter hours after he addressed the crowd that gathered on the Ellipse in attendance to Washington DC to complain about the results of the primary election.
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Fox News before the video was released that he called Trump about the situation at the Capitol.
‘I think we need to make a statement, make sure we can fix individuals,’ the minority minister said he told Trump.
‘This is an American going, and he has to stop,’ he said.
Former Senate Visiting President Mitch McConnell, who was also a special supporter of George W. Bush, slammed Trump, he should have dealt with the country sooner.
The fact that Donald Trump has appeared on TV criticizes this movement and these terrorists – who are terrorists – are a desert for his oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America, which defense and defense, ‘Scott Jennings wrote on Twitter before the video of the president’ s remarks was released.
Another Republican blamed the president.
Republican spokesman Adam Kinzinger told CNN that President Trump was a ‘coward’ and that the uprising in the Capitol was a ‘coup’.
‘Anywhere in the world we would say this is a coup attempt,’ he said, adding that Trump should publicly relinquish the election to Biden to help end the split.
After Trump’s remarks to a large crowd of his strongest supporters, a large section of him broke to park to the Capitol and storm the steps.
Hundreds were able to gain access to the building, stopping Congress confirming the election for Joe Biden.
Trump released a video later in the day urging his supporters to ‘go home’ – after they first spoke to them on the Ellipse earlier in the day, holding out claims about selected ‘stolen’
Vice President Mike Pence was evacuated from the Senate Chamber shortly after 2pm, along with Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, the pro temp president who is in the headline line. sit for the presidency.
Protesters could be heard knocking on doors as seniors tried to continue their debate on the election college census. One protester shook the Confederate flag as they tried to enter.
An officer with an orange POLICE badge appeared across his chest on the floor appearing to be a semi-automatic weapon, standing between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, the party’s top leaders.
Shortly after 2:30 pm, the entire room was evacuated before the break-in occurred. As they left, Senate parliamentary staff grabbed the boxes containing the electoral college’s credentials and took them with them.