On Wednesday Rep. Dan Goldman introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Elise Stefanik for her defense of the January sixth insurrectionists and for calling those people criminals “hostages.”
From Rep. Goldman’s place of work:
Congresswoman Stefanik Has Repeatedly Delivered Assistance to Perpetrators of the January 6thAttack on the U.S. Capitol
Before This Month, Congresswoman Stefanik Referred to Duly Convicted January 6th Insurrectionists as “Hostages”
Read through the Resolution Right here
Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) will right now introduce a resolution to censure Congresswoman Elise Stefanik for perform unbecoming of a member of Congress, which include her steady assistance of insurrectionists who attacked the United States Capitol on January sixth 2021.
On January 7th 2024, just one particular day immediately after the third anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, Congresswoman Stefanik referred to the duly convicted insurrectionists as ‘hostages.’ This newest assertion follows a sample of Congresswoman Stefanik furnishing guidance, help, and comfort and ease to the people convicted of the January 6th attack, including referring to their prosecution as ‘weaponization of the federal government,’ calling the function of the Residence Decide on Committee on the January 6 Attack a ‘witch hunt,’ and regularly spreading conspiracy theories similar to Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 Presidential election.
“January sixth was the gravest assault on American democracy given that the Civil War and Congresswoman Stefanik’s persistent and continued aid for the perpetrators of an insurrection is contemptuous,” Congressman Dan Goldman reported. “In placing her individual ambitions around her integrity, Congresswoman Stefanik has been Donald Trump’s most important congressional cheerleader, even though our mutual home point out of New York overwhelmingly opposes him. By echoing Trump’s reference to the criminally convicted January 6 insurrectionists as ‘hostages,’ Congresswoman Stefanik equally demeans the real hostages now held in captivity in Gaza and supplies help for those people who attacked the Capitol to protect against the peaceful transfer of electrical power, induced the dying of five regulation enforcement officers, injured extra than one hundred others, and threatened violence towards members of Congress and their staffs. Her rhetoric betrays her oath of place of work and the Property of Reps and have to be condemned in the strongest achievable terms.”
On January 6, 2021, at the path of former president Donald Trump, armed insurrectionists launched an assault on the United States Capitol, intending to prevent the certification of the 2020 Presidential election and overturn the will of the voters. Over a hundred and seventy law enforcement officers had been wounded defending the Capitol and in the subsequent months 5 regulation enforcement officers who responded to the attack died by suicide. In excess of one,200 persons have been billed with breaking the law throughout this violent attack.
Given that the attack, Congresswoman Stefanik has continued to guidance the January sixth insurrectionists by filing bogus and vindictive ethics problems from a federal decide overseeing different felony cases involving January sixth insurrectionists, falsely referring to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Donald Trump as “attempts to criminalize the Initial Modification,” and peddling conspiracy theories related to the ‘Big Lie’ that served incite the January six insurrection.
This is more from Axios:
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday unveiled a resolution to censure Household Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) for her defenses of Jan. six riot defendants and former President Trump. […]
What he is stating: Goldman told reporters his current prepare is not to introduce what is recognized as a “privileged” movement, which would power a vote on the evaluate inside of two legislative times.
- Republican management is remarkably not likely to let a vote on the evaluate except if Goldman forces it to a vote.
- “Our hope is that there are other Republicans, specifically those in New York, in which both of those Ms. Stefanik and I come from, who realize this rhetoric is unacceptable and … will provide it up on their have,” he reported.
- If those New York Republicans never be part of the work, he reported, “we are ready to think about moving ahead with a privileged resolution.”
Stefanik has demonstrated she’s eager to offer her soul to be on the shorter listing for Trump’s possible VP decide. Whether or not he’s in fact thinking about her or not, who is aware of.
If it were achievable, Elise Stefanik’s thirst for the VP slot would make Kari Lake blush.
But nah.
— Frances Langum (@bluegal) January 18, 2024
