Several Republicans who partook in the GOP’s political stunt at the border earlier this week got chummy with a far-right activist who livestreamed himself breaking into the Capitol with the rest of the pro-Trump mob on January 6.
Hmm, Aguero posted video taken inside during the invasion, presenting it as if it were his, then later walked it back claiming he was reposting others’ content. CNN has what they say are screenshots showing him inside the capitol during the attack. https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/24/politics/kfile-marjorie-taylor-greene-ally-us-capitol/index.html Also, CNN has him with greene previously in public November 14th.
So why hasn’t he been arrested, yet, even if only on the “excited tourist” track? (typically $500 fine and probation) Is he a flipper?
Exactly. They have the video evidence to charge him with misdemeanor trespassing, just to get him into the system. They could work on other charges afterwards. Is the FBI intimidated because he’s a close colleague of a sitting Congresswoman?
Boebert, Greene, and other legislators were chummy with the insurrectionists b/f Jan. 6 and aided the insurrection on Jan. 6, so of course they were palling around at the border. Boebert and Greene and the rest of their ilk belong in the big house, not the House.
A spokesperson for the Republican Study Committee, the caucus that organized the border trip, claimed in an interview with CNN that it was “purely incidental” that Aguero was there and that the committee was “unaware of his identity and whereabouts on January 6.”
So, incompetent or lying incompetently? I can’t imagine that Congressional security (especially with a group, at the border) would let some rando show up and join the Festivusing. Either the security detail was utterly incompetent (not that likely because they would still probably have professionals watching over them, even if they themselves are not professionals) or they knew exactly who was going to be down there with them and now they are blatantly lying about it because it’s getting bad press.
I’m old enough to remember a time when self-respecting politicians would avoid people like Aguero like the plague for fear of taint. They would return any monies, avoid photographs, and made sure there were degrees of separation.
But now, there’s not a dimes worth of difference between the rabid base, the terrorists and insurrectionists, and elected Republican officials. They are literally interchangeable.