Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA05), speaking last night on MSNBC, had the following to say about the 1/6 committee investigation, of which he played an important part:
- “I know the data that the committee has, and it’s absolutely compelling. And I heard a lot of people talk about bombshells today. This just wasn’t a bombshell…this was sort of a data and information cluster bomb…”
- “You had an individual at the top of our government that was either facilitating or supporting a domestic terrorism event on January 6th. So I know that’s strong language, but I think people need to look at this for what it was…”
- “You had fantasies, lies and absolute bizarre insanities that were driving these people to attack the Capitol and you had a President throwing temper tantrums – and either overtly or tacitly supporting the overthrow of our government at that point. You’re talking about an individual who wanted the election results thrown out by any means necessary.”
- “So as I’m watching this as a counterterrorism analyst…it really is shocking to me what happened today. And I do believe we will have Republicans who need to answer the question if they support Donald Trump or not and they need to be asked that question every day.”
- “I said initially Mark Meadows was the MVP of the committee investigation. Today, I think we see that Mark Meadows is the Rosetta Stone of the investigation. He was sort of the pivot man for everything happening between these groups and also up to the president.”
- “We have to know this too, Nicole, and I’m being very careful, there’s 1,000 text messages that we know we haven’t seen that he said that were privileged. We also know Mark Meadows and others are fighting their call detail records. Why are they doing that? Because ones and zeroes is a tremendous weapon. And with that data at the hands of the committee right now, I don’t think the American public has seen anything yet.”
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