Why would any US senator or member of Congress oppose an independent commission to investigate what led to a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol—one aimed squarely at undermining American democracy & the peaceful transfer of power?
The reasons are as cynical as they are obvious.
Republicans lied about the election being stolen. That lie helped motivate a white supremacist mob of Trump supporters to smash their way into the Capitol—some with plans to kill Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi—to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s electoral win.
#TheBigLie
The GOP doesn’t want a respected panel of experts publicly connecting the dots heading into the 2022 elections and they don’t want to get on Trump’s bad side by supporting a commission that would show how his lie incited an attack on democracy that left 5 people dead...
#BigLie
100s of police officers injured & countless others traumatized. GOP-led state legislatures all over the country are using #TheBigLie to justify quickly passing bills to significantly restrict voting in ways that would disproportionately hurt communities of color
#VoterSuppression
It’s no coincidence that the 4 states where republicans have filed the most bills aimed at restricting voting—Georgia, Arizona, Michigan & Pennsylvania—were some of the closest states in the 2020 election. All of those states went for Biden & have GOP-controlled legislatures.
It’s also no coincidence that of the 147 House & Senate GOPs who voted in Jan. to overturn the election,139 of them also voted to stop a commission from investigating the insurrection. They have attacked democracy TWICE in plain sight with the intention of preserving #TheBigLie
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