"No one is arguing there weren't blokes who did things they shouldnt have"
The selective video releases by Speaker Johnson are deliberately intended to mislead the public.
"the Republican Accountability project, which describes itself as a group of pro-democracy conservatives, said the footage was being used selectively. It shared a montage of Trump supporters attacking police officers, mixed with the then-president's speech.
The project wrote on X: "Mike Johnson, like Kevin McCarthy and Tucker Carlson before him, is trying to use selective video to whitewash January 6. But we remember what happened: Donald Trump sent a violent mob to the Capitol in an attempt to undermine our democracy.
"Publicly available footage from the Capitol Hill riot shows prolonged confrontation between police and rioters, during which officers were repeatedly punched, hit with flag poles and targeted with chemical irritants."
