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Annie Grayer

28 Jul, 5 tweets, 1 min read

Wild exchange between Jamie Raskin and Andrew Clyde during rules committee meeting just now. Raskin asked Clyde if he still stood by his statement calling 1/6 "normal tourist visit" and read out Clyde's entire statement.

Clyde: "I stand by that exact statement as I said it.”

This came after Raskin asked Clyde initially if he stood by his initial statements and Clyde said he wanted Raskin to read his whole statement. Raskin came prepared and read the whole quote out loud.

Clyde’s full quote that Raskin read during the rules committee hearing:

But Clyde then repeatedly rejected Raskin’s premise that the people who attacked the Capitol on January 6 were terrorists and not tourists.

“That statement did not say that those people were tourists” Clyde said. “Read the statement.”

When Raskin tried another way by asking Clyde to respond to police officers taking issue with "an internet meme that the people here were just tourists,"
Clyde: "I’m not responsible for an internet meme, okay?” "You want to make this another January 6 hearing, but it’s not."

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