“A departing Trump administration political appointee at the nation’s leading foreign aid agency told staff on Tuesday that the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol was the work of “a few violent people,” and added “several million” others there were protesting peacefully for electoral reform, according to audio recordings of a staff meeting obtained by The Washington Post.

“Tim Meisburger is a Trump appointee and a departing deputy assistant administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s bureau for development, democracy and innovation. Meisburger made the comments on a video call with about 70 to 80 USAID workers, according to one USAID official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal communications at the agency.

“What I saw was several million people demonstrating in the Capitol, peaceful protesters in the Capitol,” said Meisburger, according to an audio recording of the video call. “I saw a few violent people and I’m not, I would never endorse violence. But what I saw was a lot of people who were committed to reform. And they were committed to electoral reform.”

“A USAID spokeswoman declined to comment. The Washington Post obtained two different recordings of the same meeting, where Meisburger made the comments. When The Post reached Meisburger by phone for comment, Meisburger declined to comment, then hung up, and did not respond to subsequent text messages.”

[www.washingtonpost.com]



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He's certainly got a good grip on reality... not.

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Yeah, there was a LTE in my local paper this morning from a local wingnut (it was the lead LTE, but this is in the “conservative” paper here):

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Thousands of Trump supporters protest of the certification of an election in which voters fraud had not been thoroughly investigated. A small number of the mostly peaceful protesters stormed the capital and broke into the chambers of Congress...

… The impeachment effort by Democrats is spiteful and equally shameful and will further divide the country…

Funny...a couple of days ago, all the violence was perpetrated by Antifa infiltrators. Next week, it’ll be that the Democratic congresspeople were the ones that actually broke all that stuff.

Millions? What was the size of the crowd that took over the capitol?

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Where is there dignity unless there is also honesty? - Cicero

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. —Wendy Mass

“ Millions? “

Biggest insurrection ever!

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btfc
“ Millions? “

Biggest insurrection ever!

Yeah. And they were protesting for “electoral reform”?

Riiiiiight.