Former GOP congresswoman Liz Cheney took to social media on Friday with a reaction to the news that House Speaker Mike Johnson would be releasing thousands of hours of security footage from the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican who was elected to the speakership after Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the role last month, announced on Friday that his office would be releasing the complete archive of Capitol riot security footage, roughly 44,000 hours in total, after releasing an initial batch of footage totaling 90 hours. He had previously promised to release the footage during his run for the office of speaker.
Republicans, particularly supporters of former President Donald Trump aligned with the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, have long called for the release of the footage, claiming the complete archive would confirm their narrative of January 6, that it was, in the words of GOP Representative Andrew Clyde, "a normal tourist visit" and not a violent storming of the Capitol building in response to Trump's 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. This narrative has been strongly denied by many outside that cohort of Republicans, including by Democrats and moderate Republicans, with available footage and eyewitness testimony rebuking the idea that January 6 was not violent.
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