Newly released security footage is raising questions about a tour Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk conducted on Jan. 5, 2021, just one day before the Jan. 6 coup attempt. It's not just Loudermilk's previous denials that look suspicious, but one tour participant's apparent focus on photographing key access points, offices, and security stations—and was a day later filmed outside the Capitol shouting threats directed towards House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other prominent Democrats.
The Republican Party-promoted hoax disputing the results of the 2020 elections continues to harm current elections, with a Trump-backing New Mexico county commission simply refusing to certify the Republican primary election’s results. The reason? The county uses Dominion voting machines to help tabulate votes, and Republican members of the committee are suspicious of the Dominion machines because a guy who makes pillows and a set of for-profit conspiracy cranks said they should be. that's why Dominion is suing the conspiracy theorists who manufactured the claims, but it will be hard to pry Republican officials away from their devotion to Whatever That Pillow Guy Said.
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