The House select committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot has asked Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) to provide more information about a tour that he gave one day prior to the violence. In a letter to Loudermilk, committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and vice chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) claimed that a review of security footage “directly contradicts” Republican claims that there were “no tours” or “large groups” of people at the Capitol in the days before Jan. 6, 2021. “Public reporting and witness accounts indicate some individuals and groups engaged in efforts to gather information about the layout of the US Capitol, as well as the House and Senate office buildings,” they wrote. “For example, in the week following Jan. 6, Members urged law enforcement leaders to investigate sightings of ‘outside groups in the complex’ on Jan. 5 that ‘appeared to be associated'” with a “Stop the Steal” rally led by former President Donald Trump that precipitated the riot.
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